What is the safest and most efficient way to clean and tune my mac?

The safest and most efficient way is to never install any software that claims to clean up, tune up, speed up, optimize or protect your Mac, without exception they will all do the opposite of what they claim. Keep OS X up to date, have plenty of ram 4gb is the absolute minimum for Mavericks, and keep 15-20 GB free on your boot drive for OS X to use. Keep startup or login items to a minimum, avoid running too many applications at once unless you have lots of ram and learn to use activity monitor http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5890

I second what Mike said.

Usually when I am called in to help fix a Mac, I discover that the user has installed various so called "cleanup" applications. Once I get all of those uninstalled the Mac runs so much better.

Allan

Consider downloading and running EtreCheck http://www.etresoft.com/EtreCheck then posting it's result here. That way we can get a look at your system and hopefully offer some suggestions.

file:///Users/jackbarry99/Documents/EtreCheck%20%202%2011%2016.pdf

Mike... Thanks for your kind offer. Above is the Etrecheck report... I am going to follow its recomendations.

...and look forward to yours

Jack Barry

San Francisco

We can't read your EtreCheck report. It did not show up as a link, only plain text. Please simply copy/paste the EC report into a response to your own thread. That's how it was intended to be used.

Many people fail to realize that Mac OSX does a creditable job of taking care of itself. Most of the things tune-up apps claim to do are already handled by Mac's periodic maintenance scripts that run daily, weekly, and monthly to keep things tidy.

Oh ok Thanks

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