January 2022 • Macworld 55A handy tutorial system shows the highlights of each
MacCleaner Pro module when you open it for the first time.RAM, disabling
obtrusive
start-up
applications,
reindexing your
Mail database,
disabling
browser
extensions, and
others. This
won’t turn your
Mac into an
absolute speed
demon, but it
helps remove
the kludge that makes your Mac run
like an iron pig in mud.
Nektony’s Duplicate file remover
proved to be excellent and shows
you just how many extra copies of
a single image might be occupying
your hard drive. In one case, I wound
up deleting over 700 cached copies
of an image from my hard drive that
were occupying over 100MB of space.
Recovered space is tracked almost
like a scorecard, thereby pushing
you to recover more space while you
have the program open.
In the case of the Uninstall
Applications module, it’s easy
to locate and remove unwanted
applications. A handy toggle allows
you to switch between standard
mode and expert mode, which
allows you to view application
components and note where
they’re located on your Mac.
With the Analyze disk usage
module, you can easily view and
gauge which file types are taking
up the most space on your Mac and
work to slim them down. Another neat
feature of this is that it was able to
view and gauge the files that took up
the most space on my Boot Camp
partition, an unexpected bonus.
While I’m running a pretty lean
system on my MacBook Pro, the
‘Clean up Mac’ module was able to
nix 3.28GB of extraneous caches and
language files. The application allows
you to refine your search, choosing