I need to clean My Mac drive with Mac
cleaner for Mavericks installation. My Mac disk is almost full and
need an app cleaner to delete all unnecessary applications and files
from it. Currently, I am on Mountain Lion and want to switch to
Mavericks to experience the most advanced OS from Apple. The most
fascinating part of this OS X is its speed. I enjoyed every feature
of my Mountain Lion but sometimes got frustrated with its sluggish
speed. And that is the reason why I want to have the Mavericks.
Mac cleaning applications
While searching for this category, I
came across two options – CleanMyMac
and Stellar Speed Up Mac. The
applications reviews were great and pushed me to download both of
these.
Stellar Speed Up Mac v2.5
The free version of this App comes with
limited features. The welcome screen offers three options:
a. SpeedUp Now : To apply the cleaning
task on whole drive
b. Clean My Mac : To clean useless
files from a single volume
c. Uninstaller ; To remove an
application permanently
Options in Preferences
1. General : You can set the
preferences for types of files to be deleted from your machine. It
makes settings for both Clean My mac and SpeedUp
Now options.
2. Folder Search: One can
mention the folder location from where the files need to be deleted.
3. Languages: You have the
flexibility to choose and delete the language files you don't need.
You have the option either to group the files by language or by
software.
4. Files: In this section you
can filter the scanning process on the basis of file extension, File
size and duration of last access.
5. Devices: This feature runs
automatic trash service from external removable devices.
6. Advanced: The advanced
section includes option to play sounds, Launch uninstaller
automatically and trash monitoring.
7. Scheduler: You can schedule
the launch of Speed Up Mac automatically and check for updates either
daily, weekly or monthly.
8. Ignore List: The app ignores
the files enlisted here.
The trial versin of this Mac cleaner
scanned my complete drive of 320 GB in a minute and asked me either
to register and clean 1.68 GB of useless files OR to clean just 460
MB, without registration. I clicked the “Free Cleanup” while I
was downloading CleanMyMac.
CleanMyMac 2
The welcome window shows options for
Automatic Cleanup, System Cleanup, Large & Old files, iPhoto
cleanup, Uninstaller, Extension Manager and Eraser.
The app works on whole disk in one go
and doesn't have any option to select a specific volume. It can
delete the large and old files but doesn't provide flexibility to to
chose the size and access duration.
An interesting feature I liked here is
iPhoto cleanup which can delete unnecessary files from iPhoto of your
Mac.
After the scan is completed, it
prompted me a message to purchase the licence but no feature is
free with trial version of CleanMyMac 2.
Options in Preferences
1. General: It
has the option to reset the ignore list and play sounds.
2. Scanning:
Here, one can select and deselect the type of files to be scanned
while running the application.
3. Scheduler:
Option to schedule the maintennance task by the application either
weekly or once in 2 weeks.
4. Monitoring:
This section provides option to launch uninstaller to delete all
related items of an application, once it is moved to trash.
5. Privacy and
Updates: An option to check for updates automatically.
On the basis of
above observations, I prefer Stellar Speed Up Mac and going to, make
my Mac ready for Mavericks.
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