My main Mac (i7 8Gb Mac Book Pro) is now on Lion. It gets left on - as I can rely on many apps and printing problems causing system-wide crashes that force regular reboots! :-(
I use Ice Clean to do regular routine maintenance http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23860/iceclean Lion seems to have more need of regular disk permissions clean-ups than SL and it gets very flakey, very quickly with limited disk space - as in <15% of a 500Gb drive! Best, Keith.. On 11 May 2012, at 20:00, stephen barncard wrote: > 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 > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode