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    Manual cleanup of disk

    Hello, i got in storage almost 60GB of Applications (About this mac -> storage). I checked in apps - they maybe have 20GB. Where and how can i find last 40gb to eventually remove it manually? It is awful comparing to windows, how it is created on macbooks :) I know there are tools, but one of...
  2. Laisha

    Huge Mess; Need Advice

    I have a gigantic problem and need some feedback on my plan to fix it. First let me inform you that my hard drive died just before Christmas. Carbonite restored all of my files — EVERY SINGLE ONE of them — in iCloud and then put aliases to them on my desktop. DOCUMENTS was totally empty, and...
  3. invincible-guy

    Safe to remove - .rnd and .CFUserTextEncoding

    As a cleanup routine, I remove files from ~/Library/Logs and ~/Library/Caches directory. I also remove ~/.Trash and ~/.DS_Store My question - Is it safe to remove ~/.rnd and ~/.CFUserTextEncoding? What are these files/folders for?
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    Cleaning junk from iPhone to speed it up

    Hi All, Is there an app made by Apple which cleans the junk from an iPhone like Clean My Mac cleans junk from a hard drive on a mac book? I am hoping there might be an app like this for iPhone in order to speed up the processing or RAM on the iPhone. Please let me know if there is one, or...
  5. R

    Prepare Mac to give to girlfriend

    Hello, I want to give my old MacBook to my gf, and while at it, I want to put in an SSD, too. I want to keep some applications, but otherwise I want it to be like a clean-install. So I prepared a new user, cleaned up my old one, and now, ready to delete that one, I want to copy Macintosh HD to...
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    How do I clean the ports from dust?

    Does someone now how to effectively clean up the headphone & lighting ports along with the speaker & microphone to remove all debris/dirt that gets stuck in there? I haven't been able to come up with a solution that would do so effectively to make it look good as new. Have tried using compressed...
  7. Y

    Fix/lean up my MacBook pro

    I have MacBook Pro 13-inch, Early 2011, Processor 2.3 GHz Intel, 4 GB Memory. Running OS X 10.9.5. I would like to ask how to fix/lean up my macbook pro. I am extremely disappointed in recent year or two. I am Mac user since the old days of white plastic MacBooks with PPC processors and...