Is Clean My Mac 2 helpful for speeding up at Macbook Pro?

I suspect that nobody is monitoring this thread and your posting doesn't even seem to relate to the Subject of CleanMyMac2.

Your best bet is to start a new discussion with a much more complete description of your issues and don't post the EtreCheck or any other diagnostic information until asked for it. You'll get a lot more help faster by doing it that way. Just the way this forum seems to work best.

From a very specific question, to "3rd party cleaning apps Good or Bad," to MindofMonkey about above, it is VERY amusing to see how far this thread has gotten off track. But here's my feedback regarding Clean My Mac 2. (No, I am in no way affiliated with MacPaw and really do NOT like many of their products.)

I've been a Mac-man since '84, and still have my Mac 512 (Yes, I still have it working). I am a Certified Computer Forensic Examiner and know very very well what goes on under the hood of OS X, am very familiar with the directory corruption that seems so pervasive in the HFS+ file system, the relatively unstable permissions settings OS X can't seem to keep straight and all the crap that doesn't get cleaned out or "managedautomatically" or at all by OS X. I don't need Arabic, French, Spanish, Danish or any other of the multitude of language iterations in my OS X and/or in my other Apple software that unnecessarily saps up gigabytes of space on my machine. If I drag an App to the Trash there can be a multitude of extensions, drivers, settings/plist files and other junk that does NOT get removed by OS X upon "Emptying the Trash"... and if the average user discovers how to get into their relatively hidden Users/(Profile)/Library and ties to remove stuff manually they are very likely to screw up their OS or break their other software. I have tested CleanMyMac 2 in a lab environment and I've found that CleanMyMac 2 does an excellent job of getting rid of totally unnecessary, disk-bloating CRAP from your drive and does it in a manner that is way more efficient and reliable than trying to do it manually. I've never had a negative experience with/caused by CMM2 and have found it to be no more difficult to remove manually than many other software available from Apple or the App Store.

I, myself remain generally dubious about other products from MacPaw (particularly Gemini). It is certainly your right to avoid all 3rd party "cleaning apps" and blame them for all your OS woes. I have found, however, that most problems people have with their Macs not working well has more to do with permissions errors and/or progressive directory corruption. Hard drives, including SSDs age and become less reliable over time, causing information get corrupted or lost. But CMM2 doesn't address or cause these issues, wear & tear on your storage media or improper system shutdowns does/do... which is why you should always let TimeMachine do what it does (know that your TimeMachine or other backup drive(s) can need help too). Certainly CMM2 can be a catalyst for things going wrong... when there are already problems (usually disk-related ones) present, e.g.: lost icons, etc. But don't just automatically blame the software utility, blame the fact that OS X is actually not 100% perfect and does not do a lot of things that common sense allows people to believe it would do (like dump huge, outdated log or cache files, particularly when you've deleted the app that generated them). Some 3rd party apps, like CleanMyMac, address these OS X shortcomings well.

Troll my feedback regarding CMM2 if you wish, question whether my testing methods are sound, it doesn't matter to me - my steady paycheck working in my professional field (and not yet having any of my Tech-Support clients wanting to sue me) establishes that I might know what I'm talking about. But, in answer to the original question, "Is Clean My Mac 2 helpful for speeding up at Macbook Pro?," my experience/practice has consistently shown CleanMyMac 2 to be useful and non-destructive to systems and/or other software. Macintosh Computers are exceptionally awesome, comparatively reliable machines and OS X is a very, very good operating system. However, to keep your Mac truly healthy, 3rd party apps are are actually REQUIRED. While CMM2 does nothing to correct permissions errors or fix directory issues (sorry, OS X and Mac Disk Utility ***** at that too), which I've found to be the true source of many of the type of problems described earlier in this tread, I've found that CMM2 does an excellent job at locating and cleaning out much of the stuff that OS X simply does not do on its own, reclaims a lot of wasted disk space and does result in more "snappy" machine performance.

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In my experience, in addition to the Disk Utility app., DiskWarrior (DW) is a useful program. I did not install it but booted from the CDs and later the DVDs. Upgrades were needed to include new boot software for newer iMacs.

For 15 years I looked after a network of 11 iMacs, of varied ages, in a medical practice. I used DW successfully whenever minor problems occurred (slow boot up, long shut downs, the medical practice application not not working properly etc). So successful was it, that preventative maintenance was done every 3 months or so, on each machine, as no downtime was tolerated in a busy practice. Even with a brand new iMac, after OSX & software installation, it got a Disk Warrior treatment before commissioning. We had a UPSs for all machines, offsite backups, spare hardware and Disk Warrior for disaster management.

The most amazing example was a friend, whose very old System 9 iMac was "dead". The Apple Store Genius Bar could not help. He was desperate to have access to data on it. We hooked up his machine and my OSX4 laptop via Firewire cable and booting his machine holding down T key. Disk Warrior (on my laptop) recognised his old HD and did whatever it does and Bingo !! his machine booted up again as new.

Hope this helps.

i thought these cleaner apps do nothing, but i changed it after using one. i first used mackeeper and it caused some troubles to my mac. then i tried cleanmymac2 and wrote a review about it in my blog which really does amazing job in keeping my mac clean. you will definitely find this utility useful once you installed it in your mac. give it a try and then consider purchasing it.

Robin.

apple.robinson wrote:

i tried cleanmymac2 and wrote a review about it in my blog which really does amazing job in keeping my mac clean.

Really? The oddest thing. I downloaded the trial yesterday and gave it spin – just for kicks. It didn't find anything that was worth removing: all small potatoes.

After that exhilarating experience, I decided to let CMM2 delete itself, which it did very well (that's a plus!). But only after asking me why I would do such a thing. If you click "It's too expensive", you're presented with a "special offer" and the ridiculous normal price of $40 – which seems to be spent mostly on advertising – suddenly dropped to a marginally less ridiculous $20...

Is there particular software you would advise to make that second backup? I have a TC running with TM, but I would like to make a second backup, but I can't seem to find a programme that just makes a simple backup.

Ever since I purchased Clean My Mac I get pop-ups all over the place on my browsers, I can't click on anything without a pop-up or new tab opening, most of them relating to other products for cleaning macs. It's ridiculously annoying.

Hello @mnmio15, I dont think its caused by cleanmymac 2 app. I am using CleanmyMac 2 on my Macbook Pro for more than an year and never got such popups. When i asked about the popup ads the support team replied to me the chances, why you see those ads.

"The annoying popups may be caused by Genieo adware that is often bundled with a demo of MacKeeper. Please try locating it in the Uninstaller module of CleanMyMac 2 and removing it. Be sure to restart your Mac after uninstalling Genieo. Also, please inspect the Safari Extensions and Internet Plugins section of Extensions Manager for any suspicious plugins."

Kindly check your browser extensions and apps installed to detect the actual problem.

Robin.

mnmio15 wrote:

Ever since I purchased Clean My Mac I get pop-ups all over the place on my browsers, I can't click on anything without a pop-up or new tab opening, most of them relating to other products for cleaning macs. It's ridiculously annoying.

AdwareMedic can take care of all currently known adware. It was developed by thomas_r. who is one of this forum's malware guru. If you search the forum you will find a large number of satisfied users and not one who had any issues with it.

apple.robinson wrote:

Hello @mnmio15, I dont think its caused by cleanmymac 2 app.

Technically correct. However, since CleanMyMac is often distributed within unethical adware install packages, it's probably related to the adware causing the problem. So, uninstalling CleanMyMac won't solve the adware problem, but is nonetheless an important thing to do for many other reasons, including the untrustworthiness of any company that would allow their software to be installed alongside adware.

What you clearly don't understand is that corrupt directories can easily lead to corrupted backup sets - Time Machine based or otherwise - which your approach of only backing up and doing nother else could never guard against, no matter how many discreet backup destinations you configure.

I agree completely. A couple of years ago I lost some critical files, despite a multi-level backup scheme, because the corruption was propagated through my backup sets. Disk Warrior allowed me to partially recover the files.

Wonderful, so this relates to CleanMyMac2..........how?

Thanks

Pete

My post was a reply to Crozio's defense of Disk Warrior. I assumed that clicking the REPLY button would created an indented reply, within the context of the discussion.

And both are Off-Topic with yours being a year and a half late.

Well, it's nice to see that someone is policing a year-and-a-half year old thread. I'll sleep better tonight knowing that there are diligent people like you keeping everyone on topic.