Is there good BleachBit analog for Mac OS X?

Hi!

Just migrating from PC world and looking for good analog for BleachBit (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/) application. The goal is to have an easy-to-use yet effective, scaling and adjustable tool to cleanup sensitive data spills - temporary files, web history, cookies, messaging history, logs etc. etc. Primary focus is on privacy guarding here, not on system speed improvement. Would be great if it's open-source, may be not free though.

I'd appreciate any advice. Cheers and thanks!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Jul 28, 2014 2:21 AM

16 replies

MrHoffman

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Mar 5, 2016 8:57 AM in response to smWiMi

BleachBit and the rest simply do not do what you think and believe and want them to do. Not with SSD devices.

If you've got dreck in a disk image, that's a different matter, and erasing those contents will erase data that might still remain within the disk image — this if you're reusing one of those disk image containers, and may have data remaining within that. (What's happening behind the disk image on the SSD is as described earlier, however.) But if you need that, then copy a big empty file to fill the remaining free space on the disk, or use DiskUtil secureErase command to erase the free space. Or DiskUtil, if the version you're using has the erase free space option. Or create a new disk image and use that.

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