Is there a Mac Cleaner to make it go faster?
Make my Mac more efficient
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Strange comment, considering no one is advocating buying anything.
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There is no reason to ever install or run any 3rd party "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus, VPN or security apps on your Mac. This documents describe what you need to know and do in order to protect your Mac: Effective defenses against malware and other threats - Apple Community and Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support.
There are no known viruses, i.e. self propagating, for Macs. There are, however, adware and malware which require the user to install although unwittingly most of the time thru sneaky links, etc.
Anti Virus developers try to group all types as viruses into their ad campaigns of fear. They do a poor job of the detecting and isolating the adware and malware. Since there are no viruses these apps use up a lot of system resources searching for what is non-existent and adversely affect system and app performance.
There is one app, Malwarebytes, which was developed by a long time contributor to these forums and a highly respected member of the computer security community, that is designed solely to seek out adware and known malware and remove it. The free version is more than adequate for most users.
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What's wrong with subscribing to a (reputable) VPN for security when using public Wi-Fi on a laptop when not at home, and to change your apparent location for streaming services?
Thank you!
But.. what about all caches that the Mac OS does not clear (I've up to 2GB) or the pieces of uninstalled app, etc.?
Thank you! 🙏
Can you help? My Mac is restarting quite often and I am getting the busy ball ALOT!
I tried this and every command I tried in terminal said "Operation not permitted."
Am I doing something wrong?
Nektony is another in a long list of one-trick ponies.
Any cleaner that optimizes by cleaning system caches can potentially cause caches to corrupt and make your system unable to launch apps. Any cleaner that updates prebinding can potentially cause problems for running apps.
Your best bet as I said before is to read the tip I wrote here:
Amended comments to MacKeeper tip - Apple Community
We've already answered Ozonaguy's question. Please start a new topic thread if this one does not help you.
Mac OS does its own cleanup, and backing up your data, removing optimizers, using non-automatic malware removal tools and keeping your hard drive from being over 85% full will yield the best performance. Using Apps that are spec'ed for your Mac's hardware is also important.
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Thank you so much, I will do that. :)
I have started using my Mac more and more, I would like to upgrade what do you prefer would be good for HEAVY apps?
Your existing Mac is an i3 with 8 GB, which is going to be slow.
Your existing Mac falls short of the minimum requirements for Adobe Photoshop, particularly that i3:
… https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html
That’s for Photoshop only too, and you’re running a whole lot more here.
Check the specs for the other (heavier) apps you’re using.
I’d look at an M1 or M2 with 16 GB of memory minimally and preferably 32 GB, given all of what you’re running, particularly if you’re switching between all that. Going from i3 to low-to-mid M1 or M2 is goi g to be a big boost. You don’t need M3.
Though there are other differences around cores and performance and such, probably the biggest difference among M1, and M1 Pro, and M1 Max, etc., is support for two, or for more than two displays. The base M1 and base M2 support two displays, one of which is always the internal display when the Mac is so configured.
Configure more storage than you think you need over the life of the Mac too, remembering that you can’t add internal storage, and that apps and macOS are likely only going to get bigger, and that running with insufficient storage means you get to expend the time and effort and thought to manage that insufficient storage.
Thank you so much
Thank you so much, I will do that. :)
I have started using my Mac more and more, I would like to upgrade what do you prefer would be good for HEAVY apps?
Is there a Mac Cleaner to make it go faster?