Dear list, Could I get a recommendation from some of the Mac folks on this list about a good 'Cleaner' application?
The last week or so, I've gained a rather persistent 'friend' - the dreaded beach ball of death. All the time. Type a few letters in a browser (Safari or Chrome) and then a delay, then the ball for about 30 seconds. My lovely Mac pro is in hell. Yes I have a lot of apps, and yes I am running Lion. And that doesn't help either as it insists on loading every app and document I had running the last time*. * * I am probably facing a complete re-install at this point. I had other plans this day. Dreams of Snow Leopard abound. I just wanted to use the Cloud to sync calendars and address book stuff. Anyway, I'd like to try a 'cleaner' first, but I don't know anyone that's actually used one. And it's , um, a kind of a serious app type that could ruin your life if it screws up. the one that's promoted the most is Mac Keeper. I downloaded it, and executed first run, but did not tell it to do anything. I got paranoid after I read some negative about it on the web, and it took an hour to uninstall it, as it has no uninstaller that actualy works. here's the complete list of others that I've downloaded but not executed: Mac Keeper - the best UI - looks like it could work - about $35 AppCleaner.app - took an hour to do its survey and didn't warn me if it was a paid app or not, so I quit CleanMyMac.app - not tested OnyX.app - the only free one - ran it but didn't help SpeedUpMac.app -- not tested Anyone have a recommendation? thanks in advance, sqb **(What bright pup at Apple thought that was a cool idea?I'd like to strangle that person. Yes I know there's a checkbox at shutdown, but I don't ever want that feature, and I always forget. And if I have to force-quit from a Kernel panic I get all the docs and apps reloaded that I was running hours ago. Stupid stupid stupid.)* * * -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
