clean my mac

Based on my experience of using Mac for over 10 years now, Mac OS is incredibly efficient, unlike Windows which I often had to reinstall the system every now and then to keep it responsive. I don't see too much a benefit in using cleaning apps such as CleanMyMac or MacKeeper. That been said, I have installed CleanMyMac myself. It is indeed very helpful in uninstalling apps completely from Mac (a normal delete from Application folder will still leave some supporting files in the library folder), or identifying large files (cache or backup files). Most of the time, it is safe to delete the files that the app recommends; in fact, I have never encountered any issue with the usage.

It is really up to you to try out these. CleanMyMac have trial versions available anyway.

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Your Mac runs maintenance for you in the background. Avoid third party so called Mac cleaning utilities. They can do far more harm than good.

Mac OS X: About background maintenance tasks

Things you can try > Mac troubleshooting: What to do when your computer is too slow | Macworld

Do NOT ever use MacKeeper it is poison.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3691

In my testing of applications that claimed to clean Macs, I found them to either be worthless since they failed to do what they claimed or dangerous because they did risky things without even telling they were going to do them. For these reason I recommend that all "cleaning" applications be avoided.

Allan

i recomment opening up your finder window and going through everything that is in here: movies, pics, music, documents, downloads etc and throw away anything you no longer use or need including applications.

once you have thrown away any unwanted items be sure to restart before emptying the trash on the dock since that way it tends to empty faster. (also a "secure" empty of the trash is not needed, normal empty by clicking the button will do)

can also remove the user and mac HD caches as well

if you have a large iphoto or itunes library you may want to look at putting those on an external drive to free up more room on the internal HD. can also get more RAM if it's able to be upgraded further.

I think that others have said this already, but in my experience you are best avoiding ALL products that claim to improve the performance of your Mac!

Thanks for this. I may be a bit ignorant but do you know how i can work out what or where is the stuff labelled as "other" in the storage indicator. I have 50 gigs of photo, music, apps etc and 250 "other". I did recently empty my iPhoto trash (900 items, about 4 gigs i guess). I can't imagine what things will take up 250 gigs!

Well said. It can't be repeated too many times.

What about "clean my mac", is it any good?

As stated above, no.

Paul in Toledo wrote:

What about "clean my mac", is it any good?

Seriously, did you read any of this thread before posting?