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Q: Is there something in the Yosemite OS that will do what MacKeeper does?

Is there something in the Yosemite OS that will do what MacKeeper does?

If there is, what is it called and how do I use it?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 19, 2015 3:24 PM

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Q: Is there something in the Yosemite OS that will do what MacKeeper does?

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  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Feb 19, 2015 3:27 PM in response to rebldr
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    Feb 19, 2015 3:27 PM in response to rebldr

    Luckily there is nothing in the OS X that will do what MacKeeper does (which is slowly destroy the OS X). All you require is a restart from time to time and that should clear your caches. That is all that is required. All so called Cleaning Apps for OS X can leave your Mac inoperable.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by PATRICKMELE,

    PATRICKMELE PATRICKMELE Feb 19, 2015 3:30 PM in response to rebldr
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    Feb 19, 2015 3:30 PM in response to rebldr
  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Feb 19, 2015 3:36 PM in response to rebldr
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    Feb 19, 2015 3:36 PM in response to rebldr

    rebldr wrote:

     

    Is there something in the Yosemite OS that will do what MacKeeper does?

    If there is, what is it called and how do I use it?

    There is and there isn't. It is called the OS. Just use it and it takes care of itself. It doesn't destroy your Mac like MacKeeper, or any of the other cleaning, optimizing, and protecting scams.

     

    Is there something wrong with your Mac? If so, please describe the problems.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Feb 19, 2015 3:38 PM in response to petermac87
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    Feb 19, 2015 3:38 PM in response to petermac87

    You should read this user tip: Do not install MacKeeper

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  • by AllenPerk,

    AllenPerk AllenPerk Feb 20, 2015 4:02 AM in response to rebldr
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    Feb 20, 2015 4:02 AM in response to rebldr

    For example you can delete log files (it is one of MacKeeper tools):

    Open the Console application (in /Applications/Utilities), to see a list in the Console Messages window sidebar.

    Screen Shot 2015-02-20 at 1.58.22 PM.png


    You can delete many of these files without affecting your Mac, and you can save significant space, since some of these files can be quite large. For instance, in the screenshot above, you can see a number of system.log files.

    The first one—system.log—is the current file, but the others, with the .bz2 suffix, are archived files.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Feb 20, 2015 4:10 AM in response to AllenPerk
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    Feb 20, 2015 4:10 AM in response to AllenPerk

    AllenPerk wrote:

     

    For example you can delete log files (it is one of MacKeeper tools)

    Sure. It's called the Finder.

    If your logs are getting larger than a few MB, then there is something wrong. Log cleanup should happen automatically.

    My /var/log folder holds a couple hundred MB at most.

  • by AllenPerk,

    AllenPerk AllenPerk Feb 20, 2015 4:56 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Feb 20, 2015 4:56 AM in response to Barney-15E

    Sure, but the author asks: Is there something in the Yosemite OS that will do what MacKeeper does? and not the how to uninstall?, is it a scam? etc.

    it looks weird when you search for help and see these...

     

    Here one more thing that can be used by means of finder and can be of interest to the author:

     

    1. Open a new Finder window
    2. In the search field, enter the wild card asterisk symbol
    3. Make sure the Size and Kind columns are displayed
    4. Filter the results by Kind, and you will see the list of similar items

     

    Screen Shot 2015-02-20 at 2.53.51 PM.png

     

    This method is fairly accurate because it shows identical files listed by name, type, and size. Just delete any files that you don’t want to keep but make sure they really are duplicates first. Unfortunately, this method doesn’t let you determine whether the files are true byte-level copies but there is enough information presented to be able to make an informed decision.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Feb 20, 2015 5:24 AM in response to AllenPerk
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    Feb 20, 2015 5:24 AM in response to AllenPerk

    AllenPerk wrote:

     

    Sure, but the author asks: Is there something in the Yosemite OS that will do what MacKeeper does? and not the how to uninstall?, is it a scam? etc.

    I answered the question. There is nothing that is not already in the OS that doesn't do what MacKeeper does, except catastrophically destroy your system.

    I'm not sure what makes that answer unsuitable to you.

  • by AllenPerk,

    AllenPerk AllenPerk Feb 20, 2015 5:38 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Feb 20, 2015 5:38 AM in response to Barney-15E

    Au contraire, you missed the second part of the question)

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Feb 20, 2015 2:41 PM in response to AllenPerk
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    Feb 20, 2015 2:41 PM in response to AllenPerk

    AllenPerk wrote:

     

    Au contraire, you missed the second part of the question)i

    I answered the seond part, also. Try to keep up.