Mac Users - Disk/Mac Cleaners

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For those Mac Users out there:

  • Do you use a Mac/Disk Cleaner? If so why?
  • If you do, which one and how much is it?

I’ve used some free ones and trial ones - but nervous about putting down the cost of an annual subscription without some honest views- Seems CleanMyMac X is the one that gets thrown around the most (I’ve used the free version but can’t get much out of it without paying).

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I use CleanMyMac - I feel it’s the best all rounder and lets you either do a general sweep but also gives you options if you want to get a bit deeper into the system.

Looks great and the uninstaller is brilliant

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Gary at macmost.com is my go to for any Apple queries I have.

https://macmost.com/forum-how-can-i-clean-my-mac-are-mac-cleaners-safe-to-use.html

I’ve been watching his YouTube videos since Snow Leopard came out, whenever that was.

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I’m fairly adept (I think) at clearing out my MacBook from time to time, but I’m always amazed when I see that crica 45-50GB of my SSD is “system files” and there is no way to decrease this - but when I used a CleanMyMac scan it says it can get rid of 8-10GBs (but because I have the free version I can only remove 500mb).

I try and follow the path to the folder to manually clean and its never there/ never as big as CleanMyMac claims.

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I use CCleaner and something else that I will update when I get home

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You should watch this;

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CleanMyMac is brilliant.

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Sounds good to me. Downloading free trial. R-

1st Edit: all done - apparently reclaiming 3.5GB. And now faster. Getting Gemini 2 as well.

2d Edit: sorry to bang on but the speed of things now! :grinning::grinning::grinning: And I thought Mac’s were system designed to look after themselves.

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I use CleamMyMac too. :+1:

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When I used to use Macs I used Onyx - https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

Always worked brilliantly without any of the bloat that comes with CleanMyMac (I used that for a while too)

It’s a bit of a utilitarian interface but it works perfectly :slight_smile:

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I have used macbooster for a few years now think it’s by iobit

Not checked out any others as used it on PC’s too

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I don’t use anything, never really had the need. Always find these types of software a bit sketchy.

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I used CleanMyMac until version X. X has some nasty always running background processes and no longer cleans universal binaries or 32 bit binaries.

CleanMyMac 3 (the previous version) doesnt have the always running processes and cleans the universal binaries, tough I don’t know if you can still get a license for it.

An alternative is Monolingual, tough it doesn’t do uninstalls

Btw, a Mac should have no more than about 10GB in system files. 50GB (!) suggests maybe a series of “dirty” (upgrade) installs of new OS versions. Hard to address with anything short of an erase and clean install