Dr. Cleaner, a mac cleaner app, came highly recommended to me. However, yesterday I noticed that it reclaimed several gigs of memory from my website software when I closed it down. My memory usuage dropped from 70% to 24%. Today, I noticed that all of my images had vanished from my website softwa…

Any software that performs automatic tasks has a potential for doing more damage than good. Especially so, if the task is “cleaning” a hard drive. Even more so, if you don’t perform a regular and frequent backup.

So many of of these cleaning apps do terrible things. I’ve heard countless stories like this. I’m so sorry. So glad to hear you were well backed up. Kudos to you for that diligence. For anyone considering these sorts of utility apps here’s the recommendation from the guy that writes Stacks (me)…

Most important rule for macOS: Never use cleaning Apps !!!

I’m of the opinion that if cleaning a Mac or running extra security software was deemed that important, then Apple would have already included the necessary tools to do it. As an example, Apple felt the need to let users verify / repair disks, so they gave us Disk Utility. Mac OS is engineered as a…

@isaiah @will and all… I always assumed “cleaner” apps are there just to make money and really serve no purpose. But What about when an APP is purposefully deleted? (ie: Old apps, Demo’s, etc?) What’s the best way to remove all associated files? (ie: Some apps run a service in background to w…

@1611mac I agree that an increasing number of utilitarian apps seem to be provided for profit, rather than to solve actual problems the average Mac user may face. This could be a clue as to why we sometimes see certain ones constantly appearing in advatorials and listed as a part of bundles / promo’…

[image] willwood: Most better software comes with an uninstaller. A common mistake some people make is to simply ‘trash’ an unwanted app, without running the proper uninstaller process first. Thanks for reply @Will . I’d personally never use anything like AppCleaner. Is it just me? My exper…

Thanks for your response Isaiah! Yeah I was a little apprehensive about this product. I should know better! Good thing I replaced my corrupted ‘time capsule’ with a new WD backup drive! Sometimes I live on the edge!

Great point on looking at whether the software comes with ‘uninstall’. Thank you!

Agree with most of the above. Though, I do use AppCleaner (sparingly) and I do go over the list of files it has requested to remove. I don’t let it automatically do anything.

Dr. Cleaner erases RapidWeaver Images

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isaiah (Isaiah Carew) August 5, 2018, 10:23pm 17

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