Q: Best clean up utility for Mac OS X?
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Oct 2, 2015 3:27 PMby Maximara,I would like to say that the only reason people think they need these utilities is you have 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. For example, Electronic Arts creates a folder in your personal Documents folder that contains files that logically should go in the preferences folder. Also extensions you installed a long time ago and have forgotten about can cause problems later down the line (CleanMyMac2 found one of these, from the date I had installed it back when Tiger was current and a problem I had had for a while went away)
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Oct 2, 2015 3:37 PMby Allan Eckert,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.
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Oct 3, 2015 2:11 AMby Terence Devlin,t
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...
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Apr 3, 2016 1:50 PMby Krayz'eApes Medialnd,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.
