Hi! MacPaw actually has an offering called CleanMyPC, which has no relation to the tuneup utility BitDefender provides. If it has, I'm not aware of it, since it is vastly different and only included with other products and neither company has given credit to each other.
With that out of the way, you can trust CleanMyMac. I own a copy, although it's for various reasons. sudo periodic daily weekly monthly runs all maintenance scripts at the same time. You can verify they have run by typing ls -al /var/log/*.out Saying that, beyond doing what the maintenance scripts do, they don't actually clean up application leftovers. Depending on the app, you can have support files, caches, plugins, libraries, preferences, and saved states. The maintenance scripts primarily deal with logging, at least from what I can tell when looking at them including log files. The leftovers are really where I gain some space back. I used to look for these manually. Despite that "dragging an application to the trash deletes everything" that isn't true with everything. I've found that to be the case with most applications I have, but I still see some that leave associated files around. You aren't going to get those unless you set up a cronjob to look for them, either based on a schedule or when the maintenance scripts last ran. Of course, looking for those paths is easy enough to do, so it's not as big of a deal, but it's still time you could spend on doing something else. That's been my own experiences ever since I first started running OS X, in particular with apps not from the Mac App Store. Looking through /library/Application Support, it's easy to tell which apps require a bit more work before all of it is gone. Of course, bottom line is that you don't actually need to shell out any money for apps at all, since you can do it yourself. CleanMyMac and Cocktail just make it easier. Oddly enough, the article only mentions caching and logging, but not the application deletion misconception. I always hear "just drag it to the trash and it's gone" which just glancing at folders shows that isn't always correct. Dragging .app to the trash doesn't clear associated files elsewhere. Of course, with apps from the Mac App Store this shouldn't be an issue. Food for thought. CleanMyMac already does all of that, so it's fairly useful if for no other reason than it automatically warns you if any leftovers are still around when deleting applications. It's easy enough to forget about. Nicolai > On Oct 27, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > In this case it’s actually legit and the name is merely unfortunately similar > to the dubious Windows program. > > I still wouldn’t use it, though. Here’s as good an explanation as any of why > Macs really, really don’t and shouldn’t need “cleaning”: > http://www.thesafemac.com/the-myth-of-the-dirty-mac/ > > A Mac that is on 24/7 has a slight advantage here over that which is on only > occasionally, but not by much. Use “sudo periodic interval” > (daily/weekly/monthly) if your Mac is frequently shut down. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
