App Graveyard: find and bury the leftovers of uninstalled apps, judged by Gemma 3 on your own machine

Description and use

App Graveyard finds leftover data from uninstalled apps, classifies them with a local Gemma 3 model, and safely archives them without deletion.

Problem

Uninstalled apps leave residual data in system directories, cluttering storage and potentially leaking personal information.

Outcome

App Graveyard identifies and archives leftover data from uninstalled apps without deleting anything, preserving the ability to restore data and providing contextual information via an epitaph.

Workflow

• Scan application‑data directories for leftover folders
• Match leftovers to currently installed apps using deterministic rules
• Group related folders belonging to the same app
• Send unresolved leftovers to a local Gemma 3 model via Ollama for classification
• Create tombstones with product name, company, verdict, confidence, reason, and epitaph
• Move confirmed ghosts to a quarantine directory with a manifest
• Provide restore functionality to return buried folders to original locations

Evidence

App Graveyard looks through your application‑data folders, works out which leftovers still belong to an app you actually have, and hands the rest to a small open‑weight model running on your own machine.

Source

Nothing is deleted. Ever. "Burying" a ghost moves its folder to a quarantine directory with a manifest, and one click restores it.

Source

The only network call in the whole codebase goes to 127.0.0.1:11434, which is Ollama.

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