One post tagged with "python"

We've all been there: the dreaded "Your disk is almost full" notification on macOS. This week, I hit the wall. A 52GB folder of mobile backups, photos, and videos was choking my internal SSD.

But as an engineer, the thought of manually dragging-and-dropping thousands of files—or worse, manually deleting duplicates—felt like a recipe for disaster. One wrong click and a decade of memories could be gone.

Here is how I solved it using a "Safety-First" framework and a custom Python deduplication engine.