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I ask as I've had my 27" iMac, that is up to date re system software, go to a black screen with a ? in the lower hemisphere. This has happened twice in the past week. I have run Apple Diagnostics but No Issues was reported. When searching online, there was a recommendation to in stall and run Clean My Mac. thanks
iPad Pro, iPadOS 16
I've been using CMM for almost 10 years. Please convenience me otherwise. Is "System Junk" a scam? How else will we clean out User Cache Files (sometimes over 5GB in size) taking up HD space. Does Apple remove this for us? If so, when? Also what about System Cache Files that keep accumulating overtime that can be gigs in size. Should we just let these extra files that clutter and accumulate? Is there a use for them?
Can the Apple OS find large files that you hardly ever use?
If I don't clear 112GB of purgable space on my HD, will it clear on it's own?
Please enlighten me.
I installed CleanMy Mac X on iMac 24” since mid December and had two issues - some letter keys do not work and documents popping up in Russian - when I saw others with the problem of language I uninstalled it and fixed docs back to English. However I don’t know how to get some of my letters to work. Any ideas? I am assuming this is a related issue to the “cleaner”.
Jean Kathleen,
You may still have parts of CMM installed on the computer. Please download the free version of FindAnyFile and have it look for anything that has Clean My Mac, CleanMyMac, MacPaw in it and remove these. Then empty the Trash and test your computer.
Before I could find the best way to uninstall CleanMyMac (changing to Russian as language, some keys not working) it “ate” my password to open my Mac24” so I’m on my way to the Mac tech guy with fingers crossed.
As an It professional I can say on thing if was that harmful apple wouldn't let you buy it from the Apple Store. The issue here is that most of this stuff that's done by the software you can do your self, if you have knowledge or knowledge where to look. Now about it messing up you computer that issue you have most antivirus software is that can be to over bearing. I think the bigger issue people don't understand the software and what there doing it deleting wrong files not understanding the task that are being performed while other task are running at the same time. That's just my two cents on the matter.
lenny1943 wrote:
You mentioned running "Apple diagnostics". Is there any Apple diagnostic other than Disk Utility?
Yes there is:
So what is best way to remove / uninstall Clean My Mac?
Clean my Mac X is a recommended platform by many users. It might help.
MacPaw is not a developer to be trusted.
You mentioned running "Apple diagnostics". Is there any Apple diagnostic other than Disk Utility?
Is Clean My Mac a recommended program?
