Hi Stephen
It seems effective in what it’s supposed to do. Never caused any
problems that I know of. Never detected anything terrible.
It’s a thing we spend money on that makes us feel better I think. I
used to have disk warrior back when that was more necessary, but I
expect the OSX are fundamentally strong and functional these tools
aren’t necessary. Or maybe they are. …. just know case I’d better have
something.
I’m sure we are the product of our generation, existing before strong
and secure operating systems, so are ripe for the marketing teams.
Tim Law
On 14 Jun 2026, at 2:05 pm, STEPHEN CHAPE <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi again Tim.
I have used PrivacyScan every time I leave internet for many years.
How do you find Clean My Mac ?
Regards,
Stephen Chape
Mac by choice
Windows because my employer knew no better
On 14 Jun 2026, at 12:11 pm, Tim Law <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Stephen
Odd things happening always gives some anxiety. My CleanMyMac app did
not pick it up, it was too deep for that to discover or resolve it.
I almost look forward to checking in with Claude to see what solution
she/he/it can come up with and guide me through.
Regards
Tim
On 14 Jun 2026, at 11:45 am, STEPHEN CHAPE <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you Tim … a great tip to remember.
My wife had a third party SSD installed a couple of years ago.
But that old 2012 iMac is now in heaven.
Regards,
Stephen Chape
Mac by choice
Windows because my employer knew no better
On 14 Jun 2026, at 9:37 am, Tim Law via WAMUG
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Robin,
SSD capacity it as 35%, so 65% of space still available.
Regards
Tim
On 14 Jun 2026, at 9:18 am, Robin Belford via WAMUG
<[email protected]> wrote:
Tim,
You didn’t say what size or how full the SSD was.
The second item is very important. If you get the free space in
the
SSD to < 10 - 15 % of the SSD capacity you are going to experience
symptoms similar to what you have described.
There are plenty of articles like this around to give you further
guidance if required.
[1]https://ssdbuddy.com/how-much-free-space-should-you-leave-on-you
r-ss
d/
regards,
Robin
On 14 Jun 2026, at 7:40 am, Tim Law via WAMUG
<[email protected]> wrote:
Good morning
I've had a frustrating few weeks with my 2017 iMac — 40Gb RAM
maxing
out, needing to force-quit apps, and then occasional crashes
every
few
weeks. With help from Claude (Anthropic's AI), it turned out the
culprit was a single missing setting.
When you install a third-party SSD in a Mac, which I did many
years
ago, Apple doesn't automatically enable TRIM — the process that
keeps
the drive running efficiently. Without it, the drive slowly gets
bogged
down, causes memory problems as macOS tries to compensate, and
can
eventually trigger crashes.
The fix was one Terminal command:
sudo trimforce enable
If anyone in the group has upgraded their Mac's storage with a
non-Apple SSD and hasn't checked this, it's well worth a look. To
check
go to the
Apple menu,
System Settings,
About.
Then down the bottom is
System Report.
Check under Hardware:
SATA:
TRIM Support: was NO, and is now YES after I ran
sudo trimforce enable
Several warnings come up, which I clicked Y to
A restart and I will see how things go.
Regards
Tim
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