For the last six months my Mac has been running increasingly slowly, beach balls showing constantly. A month ago Time Machine stopped making backups, accessing the external hard drive where my backups are kept and showing a 'cannot access the backup folder".
I always believed that Macs kept themselves tidy and there was no cleaning up needed.
In desperation I looked on the Apple App Store and downloaded Dr. Cleaner and gave it a go. I reckoned that it would be safe if it was available on the Apple Store.
I ran it and it recovered 58gb of caches that were not needed - 58gb!!!
Removing this has transformed my Mac (late 2013) and it is as frisky as it was years ago. My Time Machine backups are working as normal.
I have no idea what was causing my problems but obviously it was a collection of garbage lurking in the depths of my Mac.
Believe me I am not connected with the App provider in any way other than a user.
I always believed that Macs kept themselves tidy and there was no cleaning up needed.
In desperation I looked on the Apple App Store and downloaded Dr. Cleaner and gave it a go. I reckoned that it would be safe if it was available on the Apple Store.
I ran it and it recovered 58gb of caches that were not needed - 58gb!!!
Removing this has transformed my Mac (late 2013) and it is as frisky as it was years ago. My Time Machine backups are working as normal.
I have no idea what was causing my problems but obviously it was a collection of garbage lurking in the depths of my Mac.
Believe me I am not connected with the App provider in any way other than a user.
