Q: What about Clean My Mac 3?

CarlosVB wrote:

 

I'm trying to use the Clean My Mac to Yosemite

Don't. Get rid of it. If you had read anything at all in this thread or the numerous others on this topic, you would know that it is pure crap.

When I first upgraded to Yosemite that happened a lot but I didn't yet have Clean My Mac.

And then my mac stopped its frequent demands for authentication. I don't think Clean My Mac helped, I think it stopped long before I installed any third party apps - you can scroll up for more details of what I installed and why. I don't think *in my case* that Clean My Mac had anything to do with it.

It takes a certain amount of moxy to type Clean My Mac in this thread. I post this single data point because maybe that continuous asking for admin credentials is not related to Clean My Mac, which as you may have gleaned from the many fierce posts above is not recommended by some (maybe all I didn't count) of the most experienced mac users. You could uninstall Clean My Mac, check and see if those demands keep coming. That's what I would do.

MacBook Pro late 2011 on latest OS X

Let me put it this way, if you value entire apps and files, do not download. Do not ask, I will not have anything to do with Cleanmymac 3 on my computer again.

This is a too comprehensive. It shows a certain lack of knowledge beneath an overly authoritative attitude.

Example: There are times when it is necessary to clear the NVRAM, and in such cases the benefit can be immediately apparent. To say that one should never clear it is like saying that one should never change a flat tire.

Where does he say that it isn't?

So I started using clean my mac. I haven't had any problems with it. I know alot of people here are against it and we should all do it manually etc etc. From my experience it has been really good. The only thing is, just don't delete old files without looking at what they are first. Clean my mac has been great for uninstalling as well. This is what I did in half an hour..

Yes, these cleaning utilities work really well - they also eliminate necessary system software components. Glad to hear it hasn't wrecked your machine - yet.

I always find it peculiar that the folks with lots and lots of points - which are awarded by other users for being helpful - advise against this app and others like it. Then every now and then he comes someone who has no points, and who has made one post only, and who has just registered on the forum. Why would someone register on the forum just to do that? I wonder...

It will damage your computer . It will remove your files permanently.

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so there's nothing to be done with old prefs, kexts, daemons, files that remain but are no longer needed, and which nevertheless appear in scans like what Etrecheck does? Hunting those down and ridding your system of them serves no purpose? (for instance years-old VirtualBox kexts which I'd thought I'd uninstalled?)

Hello pcpclafferty,

This thread is old and Linc Davis is no longer active on the forums.

Your question is a difficult one. Mac OS X has no uninstallation architecture of any kind. None. If the software you install doesn't come with an uninstaller, or you lose it, or they go out of business, you are SOL. Before you install anything, especially something that asks for your password to install, find out how to uninstall it. Even then, sometimes the uninstallation instructions are wrong. And sometimes the uninstallation web sites are fraudulent, trying to get you to buy scam-ware.

In your case, your old VirtualBox extensions aren't loaded, so there is no need to do anything. If you really want those files removed, you will have to track down uninstallation instructions and hope they apply to your vintage of VirtualBox. I don't like to give specific instructions on how to manually delete these files because I have seen too many people get confused and start deleting the wrong files. The only safe choice then is to absolve oneself of the responsibility.