![]() ![]() ConclusionĪpp Cleaner is a better way to delete unused Apps on your Mac. ![]() It’s also possible to turn on a “Smart Delete” feature that automatically performs this scan if you do a manual delete. If you open the preferences inside App Cleaner, you’ll see that it’s already protecting default apps and other apps can be set be protected. Despite the warning, I’ve been using App Cleaner for over a decade. I’m not responsible if using this gives you problems. When you choose “Remove,” you may get asked to put in your password – as some of these elements require higher permission to be moved.Īn oft-repeated warning: Have a complete backup of your system. If you want, you can uncheck any part of this. Items from Application Support, Containers, the BOM – Bill of Materials (what was installed where), and even the preferences are now available to be deleted. Then you can actually say delete it with the Remove button.Īn example: I put in an Application (Tomates Lite), and App Cleaner shows all these extra pieces, ready for deletion.Ī list of elements that are wasting space. After a short analysis, it shows you what’s available to delete. Alternatively, App Cleaner can list the installed Applications. It does this using the same rules Apple tells a developer to use when creating applications.ĭrag the Applications you want to remove to the App Cleaner window. It analyzes the Application and helps you delete all the extra pieces. That’s where App Cleaner from FreeMacsoft comes into play. There’s an additional separate library for your System – where elements like fonts and serial numbers are stored.īut, just deleting an Application leaves all this cruft. This is where all your preferences, caches, autosave information, and many other hidden items are for each Application. Everything you’re looking at in this folder/director are hidden reference items ( library items, get it?) for your personal User on your Mac. Want to see some of what’s taking up space? In the Finder, use the Go menu. And having those extra pieces of cruft is a waste of space on your SSD. If you’re deleting an Application, you’re likely done with it. These pieces are smaller, usually under 100 Megabytes. If you ever decide to re-install that Application it in the future, it will try to pick up where it left off.Įxcept it’s leaving traces of the application on your System. This can be a good thing – and it makes sense from a digital hoarder’s point of view. However, it leaves all the other pieces still installed. On deleting Applications: Apple has a specific technote for deleting applications in their fantastic dedication to documentation. They suggest deleting it via Launch Pad (like on iOS) or just putting the Application in the trash. Now why is Nektory’s App Cleaner better than others or even free applications? To make a claim for being the best remover utility, the application needs some dominant results and interface.TL DR There’s a great free utility that does a better job deleting an Application and all of its traces from your Mac. You now need to search (if you know where to look), and delete the conflicting files. If you ever tried different Antivirus programs, you may have faced issues where the installation program complaining of detecting an earlier version of some antivirus program conflicting the installation. This is where we need help of utilities like Nektory’s App Cleaner, which keeps track of any file-relation ! Even though some application come with their Uninstall-Tool, some files get leftover and may cause problems at some point. In case you wish to delete an older or unused application, it should delete not only the main application but also all related files no matter where they ‘hide’ in your Mac’s system. Unlike Windows our Mac’s store files only in a few folders and don’t spread files around in your complete operating-system, but still applications create some folder entries like. That said, our Mac’s do like Windows gather a load of system/applications files which at some point become obsolete when no longer needed. Unlike Windows, where the user should not use their computer as a ‘testing-machine’ if they want to keep using it as a responsive system, our Mac’s are more Unix based and less sensitive to system faillure due to lost files or worse. This works fine, but you get stuck with uninstalled files and leftovers. Our macOS has NO real system maintenance build-in, but for application removal mostly depend on a drag and drop in the Trashcan. Running a Mac like any computer and being glad it is a bit Unix based, our system gets loaded with applications and smaller utilities. ![]()
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