Mac free app - Free up dozens to hundreds of GB on your Mac by trimming the fat from your plugins

[machinesworking]

Question, if you have a few Rosetta plugins like Spark, IK's VST editor for UNO synth Pro, certain Nomad Factory FX that haven't transitioned yet etc. Will it do anything to them or will it ignore them?

[Uncle E]

For VST3 files with 1.3, it tells me Skipping (Root-Owned). For the same files with 1.0(1), it tells me Skipping (Not a Universal Binary). "Apply to enclosed items" isn't making it work in either case.

[sergenas]

Question, if you have a few Rosetta plugins like Spark, IK's VST editor for UNO synth Pro, certain Nomad Factory FX that haven't transitioned yet etc. Will it do anything to them or will it ignore them?

For now if an app is only intel (or arm) whatever option you use in Unfatten, the plugin wont be touch because it would be useless and without code !

I will make this more explicit in the new release, and add statistics for such plugin in the final reporting.

Thanks for your feedback

[sergenas]

For VST3 files with 1.3, it tells me Skipping (Root-Owned). For the same files with 1.0(1), it tells me Skipping (Not a Universal Binary). "Apply to enclosed items" isn't making it work in either case.

It's probably because the files are root owned which limits what the app can do, test and detect.

Would you try the new version I just released (1.5) : the new reporting should be far more detailed, with an option to fix permissions and attribute when that's possible, and some guidance to solve specific case like root-owned plugins.

You can download it from: https://avelio.tech/unfatten

let me know how it works for you

[Uncle E]

After clicking "Fix permission issues" and running the sudo commands in Terminal, it has now gone back to "Skipping (Not a Universal Binary)".

[stoopicus]

What I would love and have considered writing myself numerous times is something to automate plugin deletion for plugins you have sold the license to but did not have an uninstaller that cleaned them up. Basically something that presents you a list of all installed plugins in the usual spots, you select the ones to delete, and it displays and offers to delete both the binary and related files (based on bundle ID, developer/plugin name, etc) from ~/Library, /Library, ~/Documents, and any other typical places.