Check it here: Protect Your Mac from Malware. Apple has an informative article talking about what’s built-in to MacOS X to help you avoid malware, but it also implies that if you really want to be safe having some dedicated anti-malware software is a smart idea. There’s a common refrain of Mac users that Macs are invulnerable to malware, but more and more that’s proving to be false. More interesting to most people, however, is the ability to scan your Mac system for viruses and other malware that could be lurking, waiting to cause trouble.
If you’re really hungry for disk space, there’s more you can explore. I mean, hey, 11.4GB is a useful amount of space to recover, and while I don’t anticipate that the performance improvement tasks are going to actually speed up my Mac, there’s certainly no risk to running ’em either. Or you can just say “heck, let’s just delete it all!” and proceed. You can even go further into it and delete, say, German from your creation tools but not from your Web browser. Turns out you can click into any of these categories and not only learn more, but selectively skip files or folders when otherwise cleaning up the mess. I encourage you to set that up - it’s a setting you’ll have to enable in System Preferences - but if you want to have CleanMyMac X just scan your own files and the system files you have access to, that’s okay too.īack to those Language Files. Notice the warning “Clean more with Full Disk Access”. In fact, all of these files are indeed junk (with the possible exception of the Language Files if you’re polylingual). I have 9GB of user cache files? Sheesh, what a waste these are temporary files that aren’t intended to stick around but clearly are eating up valuable disk space. How about that 11GB of wasted files and system junk? A click reveals a more detailed listing: Flushing the DNS cache might speed up my Mac a bit, but freeing up RAM is definitely good as not every program releases its memory correctly. There are those maintenance scripts I talked about earlier, the daily, weekly and monthly MacOS X cleanup programs. All darn interesting to learn more about, right? I’ll start by clicking on the Speed recommendations, actually, since I try to keep a lean system. I’ll get back to that in a bit, however.įor now, a click on “Scan” spins up the main featureset which offers up three categories of results:Īs you can see, it’s found over 11GB of junk files that I can safely remove, scanned for malware and found none (yay!) and identified 3 tweaks that can offer up better performance.
The main functional areas of this extensive program are shown on the left side, and yes, it includes a realtime malware scanner you can enable to help keep your Mac clean of viruses and other cruft. Notice that the Scan button actually extends below the rectangular frame of the app too. This is one of the most attractive programs I’ve used on my Mac system for quite a while. From the very first screen, one thing that strikes you is the beautiful, carefully designed user interface. MacPaw sent me a license to try out CleanMyMac X so I installed it on my main workhorse 2019 MacBook Pro system. But is that enough? That’s where utilities like CleanMyMac X can prove to be invaluable. That’s one reason you should occasionally leave your computer running overnight to ensure these system scripts have a chance to work. MacOS X includes a variety of cleanup scripts that work behind the scenes on at daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Surprisingly, it turns out that Mac systems also get cluttered and slow down over time too! Perhaps it’s just the nature of personal computing, especially when we keep trying different programs and switch from task to task. The intent was to get rid of all the unnecessary junk and unneeded files that otherwise cluttered up and slow down the system. As a long time Mac aficionado, I always found it amusing that in the Windows community a common recommendation was that you wipe and re-install your Windows OS about once a year.
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