My MacBook has slowed down considerably on opening websites and loading Internet pages, and I need to know how to remedy this frustrating situation. I saw "Detox My Mac" advertised and wondered if that might help. Please advise.
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Probably not. Most third party 'repair utilities' are rubbish and can damage your system.
When did you last empty the cache in Safari?
Why do you respond when you say "I don't know about this one - I'm very suspicious."
We do not want to hear more rumours and suspicions. To be blunt, I suspect it is pretty decent because they come from Open Source.
Regarding Trend - and that is the reason to bother reply:
Those that come from Windows Security are never good on Unix/Linux - because they think they know security.
They also think and believe and suspect. Not good enough. We have to know.
Trend has a bad product for iPhone and Android, would not waste time on them.
Check your disk space - and if it is above 80% it is too high, even on an SSD.
1. Empty thrash and delete browser cache.
2. Shutdown, and Boot while holding Command+R. Select "Disk Utility"
In DU, check disk status and the status of the partitions. Then run "First Aid" on all file systems. Click for details to see what is going on. This can take a day, and then something was very wrong and is being fixed. It usually takes minutes, say half an hour on a 1TB system. It can rebuild the file system, it will reset file permissions, it will check for cross-linked files and that the disk usage is fine. Here it can find space that DU believe is actually deleted files, but may be some you have lost and will "recover them". On older version of MacOS this is repair of file permission and repair of the disk.
You can run Disk Utility at boot once every month. This is also applicable to SSD - it will align the disk usage to run even faster. Detox and similar address use of useless files, and can recover some MBs maybe a GB or two. I have 2TB on my Mac and the extra languages files is no big deal. The temporary files are usually removed fine when no longer in use - but DU is the only tool that will discover and recover disk space claimed to be used - but actually not used. And DU has to be started during boot, with no other process running.
You can try the free version. Ive used it and it has cleaned my folders and uninstalled/left over files
Is "Detox My Mac" safe to use?
