Native macOS utility
AppVault
Move an app's data to a backup drive.
A macOS app scatters its data across a dozen folders under ~/Library — Application Support, Containers, Caches, Preferences, Saved State, Logs, and more. AppVault finds every one of those locations for a given app, moves the data that actually exists onto a backup drive, and hands you the exact shell commands to reverse the move whenever you want it back.
What it does
- Finds all of it — derives every support-data path macOS may have created for an app, then keeps only the ones that exist on disk.
- Builds a backup plan — an ordered list of moves to a backup volume, shown for review before anything happens.
- Reversible — emits ready-to-run
mv commands to restore every item exactly.
Status: Built — the discovery-and-planning engine is complete and unit-tested. It currently runs as a macOS utility library/CLI; the full packaged app (with a folder picker and one-click execute) is not yet wired or released. Source lives in a private GitHub repository.