Builds, exports, caches, and test files can create a lot of temporary clutter.
Most of it does not need to live on your SSD forever. It only needs a fast place to exist while you are working.
A RAM drive is useful for exactly that.
It behaves like a normal disk, but it lives in memory. You can copy files to it and write temporary output there. Because it is a RAM drive, the contents are gone after restart — unless you use RAMdrive Pro and enable persistence in settings!
A RAM disk from the menu bar
RAMdrive Pro creates a RAM drive on your Mac from the menu bar.
There is no size picker. The RAM drive grows as you add files, up to what your Mac can handle.
The menu bar shows the actual usage: how many files are stored and how many bytes they currently use.
RAMdrive Pro is part of Beaver Tools, a collection of small Mac utilities focused on solving one clear problem at a time.
More tools are available at:
RAMdrive Pro is available on the Mac App Store:
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