{"id":144341,"date":"2025-03-19T20:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/apple-2\/appbits-hyperspace-reclaims-space-used-by-identical-files\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:16:20","slug":"appbits-hyperspace-reclaims-space-used-by-identical-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/?p=144341","title":{"rendered":"AppBITS: Hyperspace Reclaims Space Used by Identical Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Is it weird that what I like most about the new space-reclamation app <a href=\"https:\/\/hypercritical.co\/hyperspace\/\">Hyperspace<\/a> is its <a href=\"https:\/\/hypercritical.co\/hyperspace\/#faq\">documentation<\/a>? That\u2019s because Hyperspace comes from John Siracusa, perhaps best known for his exhaustive reviews of Mac OS X for Ars Technica. Even if you have no need for Hyperspace, reading its FAQ will teach you a lot about one of the core features of the standard macOS APFS filesystem.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike apps such as MacPaw\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/macpaw.com\/gemini\">Gemini<\/a>, which search for and delete duplicates\u2014often with some degree of intentional fuzziness\u2014Hyperspace scans your drive for identical files and turns all but one into space-saving clones that occupy virtually no space. For example, if you have three identical copies of a 2 GB file, Hyperspace keeps one copy and converts the other two into space-saving clones that initially take up no additional space. If you later modify one of the clones, only then will it grow to the file\u2019s full size.<\/p>\n<p>Space-saving clones have been with us since the dawn of APFS, and you create one every time you use the Finder to duplicate a file. Unlike symlinks and hard links, which are ways of making the same file appear in multiple locations, space-saving clones are regular files. Changes made to one do not affect any others, although a changed clone immediately occupies all the space it didn\u2019t before the change.<\/p>\n<p>Another notable aspect of Hyperspace is its business model. The app is free to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/hyperspace-reclaim-disk-space\/id6739505345?mt=12\">download from the Mac App Store<\/a>, and you can scan your drive to see how much space it can reclaim. Only if you want to reclaim space do you need to pay. Your choices are $9.99 to use it for a month, $19.99 for a year, or $49.99 for lifetime access. These are one-time purchases, though you can instead opt for a subscription at $9.99 per month or $19.99 per year\u2014the only win there would seem to be not having to remember to purchase again.<\/p>\n<p>When I ran Hyperspace, it identified just 3.24 GB of potential savings in the 900 GB of data on my 1 TB drive. I am curious about which files on my drive are duplicates, but Hyperspace reserves that information for those who pay\u2014sensibly enough, since you could manually create Finder duplicates to replicate its functionality. I\u2019m not that curious, though I do wonder how I ended up with over 11,000 duplicate files created in some way other than through the Finder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Hyperspace.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69900\" src=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Hyperspace.png\" alt=\"Hyperspace\" width=\"1304\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Hyperspace.png 1304w, https:\/\/tidbits.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Hyperspace-1280x803.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1304px) 100vw, 1304px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it weird that what I like most about the new space-reclamation app Hyperspace is its documentation? That\u2019s because Hyperspace comes from John Siracusa, perhaps best known for his exhaustive reviews of Mac OS X for Ars Technica. 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