Cleanup utilities?

[cronker]

Hi

I am new to Mac (love love love it!!) after many years working on a PC platform.
On the old Windows OS, it was recommended that you use the Disk Cleanup utility to clear the disk of cookies and random junk that the system stored.

Is there a Mac equivalent to this?

 

[Neil321]

You can repair permissions etc by going into disk utilities found in your applications folder or for a general maintenance app OnyX is what most people would recommend

 

[rdowns]

I second the Onyx recommendation. Great little app.

 

[ikermalli]

Disk Utility works well, but don't run other programs with it because they run really slow, I usually run Disk Utility THEN Onyx, but if it says their is a problem like the hard drive is not valid and it says re install OS X or to put the OS CD in and run a utility from there, just wait 2-3 days scan again and the problem will be gone, happened to me and then I was worried, so before I popped the disks in I tried one more time and it said all was good

 

[Lurchdubious]

Ima have to check out that Onyx program. I've been using AppCleaner to get rid of apps I wanna completely remove.

 

[Neil321]

Ima have to check out that Onyx program. I've been using AppCleaner to get rid of apps I wanna completely remove.

OnyX is a maintenance tool and not a app for removing apps, so keep AppCleaner for that

 

[Lurchdubious]

OnyX is a maintenance tool and not a app for removing apps, so keep AppCleaner for that

Cool, I was planning on it. I figured Onyx wouldn't do the same thing.