I saw many tech YouTubers promo this thing, is cool and useful to have or it's just a legal unnecessary scam? haha
I saw many tech YouTubers promo this thing, is cool and useful to have or it's just a legal unnecessary scam? hah
Could you elaborate so we know why to avoid, it would be good to know what issues or problems you know about.I would never allow that garbage anywhere near my hard disk... probably not a "scam" in the truest sense, but it causes more problems that it solves...
Could you elaborate so we know why to avoid, it would be good to know what issues or problems you know about.
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Same here. I know it's "cool" to dunk on tools like CleanMyMac, but I've been using it for years on all of my Mac OS devices.... I've never had any problems but I HAVE noticed a significant savings in disk space and performance.I've been using CleanMyMac since it came out. It absolutely does what it promisses, and I never saw it causing problems.
Does Onyx do anything that CleanMyMac doesn't? i used to use OnyxBeen using it for some years on the office machines for certain tasks, along with other tools as Onyx, which is a must-have tool and free but does different stuff. So far no harm done and a comfortable way to get rid of caches, finding old files, uninstalling apps and so on. There are many alternative tools, like Daisy Disk for finding large/old files, but for some basic maintenance with one tool, it works nicely. No missing files or other annoyances I can report of, frankly. We have 10 or so licenses and on my personal machine I recently started using it as part of SetApp.
onyx has fewer features (basically doing maintenance), but seems to dig a bit deeper and gives you different tools like settings or access to specific files. It’s free and if you do not want to tweak your Mac on Terminal level with code, it is a great tool. CMM is more about freeing up space. You can erase language files, universal code, old big files, it can update some sideloaded MacOS-Apps and temporarily get rid of excess baggage in the system such as Time Machine shadow copies, caches, downloaded Mail attachements etc. — things you can do yourself but it’s worth the money to have a Leatherman-kind of tool for it with a nice UI. I don’t use the monitoring features and so on, just now & then do some housecleaning with it.Does Onyx do anything that CleanMyMac doesn't? i used to use Onyx
What resources?It is not. You can manually do what it does. The software that claims to clean up your computer generally is bloatware and will actually take away resources.
I saw many tech YouTubers promo this thing, is cool and useful to have or it's just a legal unnecessary scam? haha