Is is time for a good cleaning?

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Is is time for a good cleaning?

I'm on my third MacBook in the past 8 years or so. Migration Assistant has never worked very well for me, so each time, I've erased the drive on the new machine and copied the contents of the prior machine over. It's worked fine and things are working fine now, but I'm wondering if there's a bunch of junk in there now that that should be removed. If so, how best to do it?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Mar 27, 2015 5:09 AM

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a brody

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Mar 27, 2015 9:24 AM in response to John Gold

The best way to do it is clone backup your data before you attempt anything. You can easily erase something that you want to keep, and not know it.

Note, the only time you want to clean up anything is if the hard drive is over 85% full. Do not use any cache cleaning utilities except the built-in ones on web browsers for web browsers. Don't use MacKeeper. It actually can worsen matters.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1992

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