If you give someone else access to your Mac, you may have much more to worry about than just accessing some of your personal information. In that event, cleaning apps won't protect you from greater threats.
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If you give someone else access to your Mac, you may have much more to worry about than just accessing some of your personal information. In that event, cleaning apps won't protect you from greater threats.
Using it weekly. Its a nice app and available in the App Store.
Don't let fanboys tell you that a Mac is indestructible. (nothing is. Period!)
Do watch out what it is you delete with does type of apps.
BTW resetting Safari is a joke. (it doesn't delete all cookies etc)
If it was useless or harmful would apple have left it in the App Store?
Rather than be dependent on "System Cleaners" for MacOSX.... I would much rather have ALL developers to just ship their Mac Apps with un-installers.
If the Mac App is a simple install, and it only installs a single App folder (the icon you actually see in the Applications Folder), then it does not need an un-installer. But other bloated applications (Abode, Microsoft, etc) also install a bunch of other invisible system files that are harder to locate or remove. THOSE developers should really be encouraged to provide an un-installer app. It's the right thing to do.
(P.S. this is already what many software developers do on the Windows side)
You don't need anything, this is not a PC which needs maintenance, just leave it as is, OS X runs fine without any maintenance Apps, besides this OS X also has built in scripts which run and do "maintenance".
How about a app for uninstalling programs without leaving (most of the) traces behind? I heard if you just do the drag and drop a app to the trash it leaves junk behind.
I sees it's mostly not needed, still would rather have all the space I can and not have any used on useless deleted stuff through the years. Is there any "Your Uninstaller" type of programs for Mac?Overall there's not much left, most programs just leave inactive files behind, they just add a bit of lost space, that's it.
Some programs leave Launchdeamons and Lauchagents and the like, these are active but if the OS can't find the executables it will just skip them and looses a tiny amount of time in startup time, but that's just it.
There are programs which have uninstallers, most of them install more stuff and that's why an uninstaller is "needed".
I myself upgraded from 10.0 up until 10.5.8 and never had problems with leftovers but I have to admit that I know more than a regular User and know where apps install their stuff.
An easy way to do so is to have Pacifist and open the installer with that program, it shows all the files and where they get installed.
Most Apps are drag and drop though and can be easily removed by dragging them to the trash, only leaving one or two inactive files in the Preferences folder or your Library.
I sees it's mostly not needed, still would rather have all the space I can and not have any used on useless deleted stuff through the years. Is there any "Your Uninstaller" type of programs for Mac?
In most cases, app removal software doesn't do a thorough job of finding and removing files/folders related to deleted apps. For more information, read this and this. If you just want to delete the app, drag the .app file to the trash. No other software needed. If you want to completely remove all associated files/folders, no removal apps will do the job.How about a app for uninstalling programs without leaving (most of the) traces behind? I heard if you just do the drag and drop a app to the trash it leaves junk behind.