You can’t talk about the best Mac cleaners without including Easy Mac Care. Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called ' treemaps '. If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.
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WhatSize quickly measures the size of your storage devices and allows you to sort, filter, and refine the results. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size to show the largest first. The app uses the latest macOS technologies to stay up to date with any changes without having to re-scan everything.
Visualize your disk usage with the interactive chart. Click to drill down for more detail.
Intelligent tools help you find space-wasters and remove them with a single click. Let WhatSize clean up log files, downloads, caches, temporary files, and application clutter such as unneeded translations in languages you don’t speak. Reclaim space and speed up your Mac.
Find duplicate files and clean house! WhatSize lets you move them to the trash, delete them immediately, or replace them with hardlinks. Sort and filter by size to deal with the largest files first or tackle them all.
Download Mac App Remover 3. Remove all components related to Chess 1.0 in Finder. Though Chess 1.0 has been deleted to the Trash, its lingering files, logs, caches and other miscellaneous contents may stay on the hard disk. For complete removal of Chess 1.0, you can manually detect and clean out all components associated with this application. I tried to remove Chess.app from my Mac: Moving to Trash: “Chess.app” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS. Trying to change permissions for everyone in Get Info: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission. How to delete chess app from mac.
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Hard Disks fill up with all kinds of data over time. Where a Mac is so easy to use, and applications run so seamlessly, it is sometimes surprising to delve a bit deeper into hard disk usage and find that there is a lot of junk being stored that seems to have no adverse effect on using the Mac, hard disk housekeeping is important to get on top of sooner rather than later, and Total AV makes it really with the Disk Cleaner.
Clicking Disk Cleaner in the Total AV sidebar, reveals four specific disk cleaning functions:
Duplicates - Clicking and running a duplicate scan will identify any identical files stored on the computer. Typically these are documents or image files copied and pasted to an easy to access folder, or files that have been downloaded from the web, opened, then saved in another location. There is no point keeping duplicates of the same files - it takes up hard disk space, and can cause confusion remembering which file is the most up to date one
Junk Cleaner - Running Junk Cleaner cleverly identifies system files that aren’t needed:
Log files - If programs crash, they create log files so that computer technicians can identify why the crash happened. Unless you are dealing with a very specific crashing problem, these files can be safely deleted
Cached Files - These are files that are temporarily stored supposedly in order to help speed up processes next time they are run. Mildly useful, but a lot of what is stored probably has been irrelevant for a significant amount of time
Recycle Bin - if the Trash hasn’t been emptied, the files put into it will still be taking up hard disk space!
Disk Usage - On MacOS, it is often a bit of a struggle to find out what is consuming hard disk space, and that is where this tool becomes useful. On the right side of the main window is the folder structure of the Mac, and on the left is a pie chart showing a percentage breakdown of disk space used. Folders and files can be selected and deleted. For more help making good use of this tool click here
Large & Old Files - This will identify files in order of size stored on your Mac and specify the last time that file was used. Really useful for identifying files that perhaps are worth considering backing up, or if they are never used, accessed, or wanted, the Total AV app can delete them
Some really significant disk space can be cleared by using the Disk Cleaner. On older computers, it can also help speed your computer up by minimising the amount of data stored on the hard disk more information and guidance on the Mac Disk Cleaner can be found in this article.