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I am toying with the idea of using this software, but... The reviews are great, but it seems to marketed with the worst kind of scammy awful advertising and it makes me nervous.
Our Macs are in need of TLC, so I'm keen for real reviews of this or similar products. Thanks.
Leave well alone!!!!
Just use CCleaner from time to time - free version is fine...
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
Just use CCleaner from time to time - free version is fine...
On a Mac?
On a Mac?
Yes!
I use it often - it clears up loads of space.
Cor, every day's a school day.
I can't comment on Mac software, but I can share my experiences in the PC world.
As a rule of thumb, the vast majority of "cleaner" type programs are snake oil at best, and potentially highly dangerous. CCleaner is one of the good guys but I don't generally recommend it as it's a powerful tool that has the ability to cause problems if you don't know what you're doing with it (or at least, it was on the PC, the last time I looked at it).
I've never heard of it but "Cleanmymac3" sounds like exactly the sort of name I wouldn't trust as far as I could kick. Wouldn't surprise me if it finds loads of problems and then asks for your credit card. (Could be perfectly legitimate too, of course.)
TBH, you'd probably have better results by expanding on what this "TLC" is you require and letting the Mac guys offer suggestions, rather than looking for some magic bullet that's probably not going to make a fig of difference.
Another vote for CCleaner. Stick it in your Dock and run every couple of days. What kind of TLC do you think the computers need? Any particular problems?
This kind of product is totally unnecessary IMO. Even looking at the website for the "good" one (CCleaner), it doesn't claim to do anything that you can't do yourself in a couple of clicks. I agree that there are probably also many scam versions of this type of software.
Wouldn't touch any of them. Do it yourself.
Get a program called omnidisksweeper, it's free and it scans your hard drive and then lists all your files and folders in size order, brilliant for finding all those hidden files etc. Then your free to do what you want with them.
What could possibly go wrong? (-:
Treesize Free does the same thing on Windows, I use it all the time.
I got Clean My Mac free with parallels.
It's ok tbf, but like parallels, every time Mac OS upgrades, they want you to shell out for a new version and stump up some cash. You don't have to do this but the nagging is annoying.