Best clean up utility for Mac OS X?

From the testing I have done of CMM2 and CMM3, I have found them to dangerous enough what they delete that I would not trust them on my Mac.

Recently a friend who swore that CMM told me he was having troubles with his Mac. The first thing I did was to uninstall CMM. This did get rid on many of his problems. In the end CMM had so damaged his system disk drive that we had to completely erase it and install everything again. Much of his data was lost in the process.

Its your Mac. Do as you wish

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too many Mac programmers that don't know what they are doing and as a result you have programs that put their files all over the place.

SO the solution for that is another app that every experienced person on this board recommends against? Another app that has demonstrably caused issues for users because it's so badly programmed? The solution to badly programmed apps is a worse one? Yes, that makes sense...

Appreciate all the great insight! When you sit back and think about it, it is maniacal & outright torturous to put ourselves in position to have to decipher through all the garbage out there. Thanks for the detailed info you suggested. I read every word and can officially say I am more informed and feel a little more relived.

shldr2thewheel wrote:

none of them. they are all junk and useless.

Those 2 programs I have had tons issues with - MacKeeper being THE WORST! I wish I could find a program that actually works and not install extra crap or act like a malware!

I wish I could find a program that actually works

To do what? These apps do nothing you need to do...

You can choose from other set of Mac cleaning utilities which are safer and reliable. Among them are CCleaner, Stellar Speedup Mac, Onyx, Washing Machine from Intego.

Hi, sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but can anyone vouch for these apps?

I was this close to purchase app cleaner, but now I'm thinking about not doing it? I don´t want a system full of unused trash files.

Thanks!

As stated repeatedly in this thread, no such software product is required. Absolutely none.

No one can vouch for those apps. They're unnecessary and their main feature is parting the unwary from their money.

Rather then posting to an old thread such as this, it would be better if you read the whole thread in its entirety first.

If you would have done that you would have discovered that it was answered already numerous times.

None of them, they are simply not needed…

Clean my Mac is spyware. (apple support)

MacKeeper is very bad malware.

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