How to clean my iMac Completely?
My iMac is running slower than before, and I have already uninstalled several apps and movies, but without effect!
Is there any suggestion? Thanks a lot in advance!😉
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), null
My iMac is running slower than before, and I have already uninstalled several apps and movies, but without effect!
Is there any suggestion? Thanks a lot in advance!😉
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), null
Please review the article below, and post back with test results.
If you have activity monitor open on the side whilst operating apps, maybe watch for your memory usage.
When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
I could be due to the piled up mountains of junk files, such as logs and cache files, development junks, unused binary file, unnecessary language packages, photo backup files and so on. You can not image how much space they would take up. It is recommended to try some third-party Mac OS X cleaner tool, like MacCare, which is more convenient and safe to sweep up these junks completely.
It is recommended to try some third-party Mac OS X cleaner tool, like MacCare, which is more convenient and safe to sweep up these junks completely.
It is not recommended by any senior member of this forum. Such apps are junk ware at best and actual malware at worst.
How to clean my iMac Completely?