MacPaw:
Hey Mac users, we’ve got an app premiere for you. Our new baby, CleanMyMac X has just been born. Why calling it X? Firstly, because this year it’s our 10th anniversary and the X is our tribute to that and the first CleanMyMac created by Oleksandr Kosovan back in 2008. Next up, we believe this version is much more than another numerical in the line — it is X times better.
In general, I hate these kinds of apps. I simply don’t trust them to do it properly or to not screw up my system. But, I’ll tell you a story.
I’ve been having an issue with one of my external drives for a month. It’s not a crucial thing. Just annoying. Ran Disk Utility First Aid on the drive and “nothing was found”. This AM, I did a full backup of my system (told you I don’t trust these apps) then I ran CleanMyMac X. It solved the problem immediately as well as doing all the other cool things CleanMyMac does. This is not a review of the product (I haven’t put it through its paces yet) but I like the look and UI of the app as well as the ease of use through MacPaw’s Setapp,
Shawn, will you review the utility here or on Your Mac Life?
beware though: “CleanMyMac X wants to connect to …” really a buttload of websites (many of them being of apps I have installed and in the menubar) — I just wonder why, and macpaw does not say a word about it
on second thought it might have to do with the new “Updater: A tool that monitors updates for your apps and lets you easily get the latest available versions” — https://macpaw.com/support/cleanmymac/knowledgebase/updater
Be very careful with this sort of thing when removing localization data. I recall a previous app of this type that cleared out localization inside apps. Everyone who ran it (yes including me) suddenly discovered their Adobe apps no longer launched. I strenuously urge people to NOT choose to remove language files. You may not use those foreign languages, but some programmer might have coded an app in a way that they must be accessible. They’re not very large anyway, so not much space would be recovered.