Cleaning out old unused programs

"David Fritzinger" wrote in message

Hmmmmm......all that huffing and puffing. Does Kono huff and puff?
Do you hold his balls while he's pushing and shoving?

 

Don't know - at least you didn't use
the most vile words in Macdom: MacKeeper.

 

Minor nit: There is no such thing as a proper group to engage with trolls.

 

Not a direct answer but years ago on my iMac I started to use the
Comment Field in the "Get info" window of apps whenever I install an App
of any kind.

I always include whether it is a trial, or version limited. I also put
the purpose of the App.

Entering the purpose may seem strange but a huge number of programs have
names that don't reflect their purpose.

So when I scroll down through my Application folder now, I can see
immediate the ones I will keep or toss soon.

Also quite often I have to go looking for a utility program to do
something that I only need once ot twice a year. And I haven't a clue
what the name is. Having the Comment helps a HUGE amount.

Just my 2c. Never too late to start !

 

mackeeper was at macworld with their latest promotion, pay what you
think it's worth, from $1 on up.

there was no option for $0 nor was there an option for the user to be
paid since it's not even worth free.

 

"zara"?!?

Hell, I thought that bitch died after she flung herself off a canal bridge
in Palm Beach!

I'll be damned...

 

Try alt.usenet.kooks that is about as proper a NewsGroup to engage
trolls with as you are going to find.

 

I only got CleanMyMac as part of some bundle a few years back that had
a great deal on Parallels as part of the deal, otherwise never would
have got it. It seems to do a very good job of cleaning up the
ancillary files for apps when you remove them with it, but I don't go
digging around looking for tidbits after either.

 

That's how I got it as well.

I don't use it myself, I found it's background process intrusive and was
not impressed with the quality of the work it did do. It looks nice, but
other than that it wasn't useful to me.

If I delete a 500MB application from /Applications I don't really care
if it leaves behind a couple of 4K preference files. In fact, leaving
them behind is probably a good thing in case I ever reinstall the app.

 

I used to use a free app called Onyx to do various tidying up chores. I
don't think I've run it since Lion or possibly Snow Leopard (and on a
prior machine).

When I remove an app I use "AppCleaner" (also free), it makes an extra
effort to locate all files associated with an app and deletes them. In
one case it was effective to remove an app before re-installing it -
just deleting it with Finder was ineffective - the re-installed app
would not run.

A fellow who runs a PC repair shop had a very buggy, slow MacBook (early
intel version). He was getting nowhere with it. I looked at it and the
first thing I spotted was MacKeeper. I suggested he remove that,
install Onyx and AppCleaner and go to town on the machine. Next time I
was by he said that made a huge difference.

 

exactly.

 

I'm more sensitive to that these days as my MBP only has 128Gb of SSD.

 

you need a *lot* of 4k preference files to fill up 128 gigs of ssd.

if you really want to save space, there's a lot of crap in the unix
side of things that you almost certainly never use, like man pages.

 

No, he(?) still inhabits CSMA, and uses the same tactics. Indeed, he may
have gotten worse, if that is possible.

 

AFAICT, he had to sell his place in Florida and he's had to move back
to New York and move in with his kids.

 

I have man pages? I did not know that, how do I get to them to delete
them if you'd be so kind.

 

Every Mac does...

....but they're only a few 10s of MB, so...

 

usually /usr/share/man but you can use the command manpath to find
out where it thinks they are.

it's also not all that much space, but if you're worried about a couple
of 4k files then you ought to be looking at the rest of the system,
because there's a lot of stuff that's never used.

also be aware that deleting anything in the system or unix directories
has the potential of causing problems and there's a good chance that
anything you delete will come back in a system update anyway, depending
on what the update includes.

 

"Alan Baker" wrote in message

IOW: you don't know how. BWAHAAAHAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
The "iPad setup man" fails................again.

 

"Alan Baker" wrote in message

I would have asked to move in with you but; the space is hard pressed
to hold you and the roaches. Plus I am afraid of the rats in the
walls.