
If you’re smart you’ll do the same.ĬleanMyMac X. But I feel obliged to say that while I’ve had no issues whatsoever with CleanMyMac X over many weeks of testing, you should absolutely, positively back up your data, back it up again,) and then test both backups before using CleanMyMac X or ANY OTHER utility that deletes data, changes files, and/or modifies system files.
DR CLEAN DISC CLEANER MAC DRIVER
This is the first Mac “cleaner” app I actually like using and am comfortable running full-time on my daily driver Mac.
An application is hung in the background (i.e stopped responding). Free disk space falls below a specified threshold. (I run ’em both.)įinally, CleanMyMac X can alert you when: While I already have most of that information in my menubar courtesy of Bjango’s iStat Menus, it may be useful to you and save you the $14.99 for iStat Menus. And Even More…ĬleanMyMac X also includes a menu bar item that displays a ton of useful information including available disk space and memory battery status with battery-hogging apps size of all items in Trash and current CPU load.ĬleanMyMac X’s menubar app provides useful stats. The net result was another 50+ GB of additional free space for a grand total of more than 150GB!. I archived ones I wanted to save to another disk, and trashed the rest. *I used the Large and Old file scan to ferret out another 50+GB of large files and files I hadn’t seen or even thought about in years. Privacy cleans your browser history including auto-fill forms and other data saved by popular browsers. Large and Old Files* identifies large and forgotten files and allows you to easily delete them.
Updater checks your non-App Store apps and identifies those with updates available.Uninstaller uninstalls applications properly by deleting all of their related files, even files that are hidden from view.In addition to Smart Scan, there are several other useful tools: This before (left) and after (right) shot tells the story of my 100+GB of cruft.