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Temporary file cleanup tool

Is ForNeVeR/Vacuum beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to ForNeVeR/Vacuum to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
9
Forks
1
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
21
Dominant language
F#
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 16, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to ForNeVeR/Vacuum

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Unix socket files seem to have negative size
    Open
    bug help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#149 ·

  • Error when scanning a `nul` file
    Open
    bug help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#148 ·

  • Errors during space reclamation should not lead to space being reclaimed
    Open
    bug help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#109 ·

  • Dependency Dashboard
    Open
    dashboard

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 15/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#101 ·

  • Custom location configuration
    May be free again @ForNeVeR claimed this 957 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#96 · 1 assignee ·

  • "There is not enough space on disk" UI dialog during cleanup
    Open
    bug help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#95 ·

  • Print the oldest remaining item after a period-based cleanup
    Open
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#94 ·

  • A case of incorrectly reported size
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#83 · 1 comment ·

  • Vacuum may delete a directory without putting it into the recycle bin
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#81 · 3 comments ·

  • Final Summary - Disk Space Cleared Up
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#73 · 3 comments ·

  • Exception Catching for "This function is not supported on this system."
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#72 · 1 comment ·

  • Downloads cleanup
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#43 ·

  • JetBrains IDE data cleanup
    Open
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#42 ·

  • Diagnostic mode to determine current dates of the files
    May be free again @ForNeVeR claimed this 2332 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#34 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Use ShellProgressBar
    May be free again @ForNeVeR claimed this 3244 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#25 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

  • Multi-threading file system scanning
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#21 ·

  • Use transactional FS advantages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#20 ·

  • Log: show dates for deleted entries
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#18 ·

  • Additional logging
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#15 ·

  • Vacuum should not perform anything if there's command line parameters it was unable to parse
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#9 ·

  • Stats command
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ForNeVeR/Vacuum#7 ·

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