using analyze and deleting files

[bartreardon]

Great tool.

Using mo analyze to browse folder usage and its really handy for finding hidden areas of usage, especially over ssh

when I select something to delete though, whether it's a file or folder, nothing happens. even a single file takes several seconds at the "deleting 1 please wait` prompt and then refresh and the file is still there. quitting mo and cd to the folder confirms the file is still there.

This is still a win though as being able to visualise disk usage is fantastic but should the Del action work or is doing this over a ssh connection an issue?

[iammike4]

I think you should post this into the issues section, to me @tw93 doesn't look in here that often, and your issues seems like a bug.

What version are you running? mo --version

[tw93]

@bartreardon Thanks for the feedback, and glad mo analyze is useful for you.

Yes, the Del action is expected to work in a local macOS terminal session.

The current delete behavior in mo analyze moves files to Trash via Finder (AppleScript), so over SSH / headless sessions it may not work even though browsing still works.

Please try the same delete action from a local Terminal/iTerm session on the Mac (not over SSH). It should work there.

If it still fails locally, please open an issue and include:

• the path you tried to delete
• the error/status message shown in analyze (if any)

I’ll improve this behavior so SSH sessions show a clearer message instead of looking like a silent failure.

[bartreardon]

Thanks for the reply 🙂

Did some more testing and the issue was that I was doing this remotely via ssh. when performing the delete action the following popup will appear on the remote device:

because this is remote there is no way to action the popup and the delete action eventually times out