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DISK XRAY LITE SOFTWARE

I will rate all these programs with one star, probably one more than they deserve. If I have missed any programs that should be on the list, please leave a comment and let me know. The user is well-advised to read any program documentation and make a RELIABLE BACKUP before attempting any changes. Macs simply do not need "cleaning." (See for example: ) Some of these programs are notorious for being little more than malware.

True experts in macOS maintenance advise against using any of them, because in general they serve little useful purpose and they can easily do more harm than good. Most of the developers' descriptions boast about what a great job they do, but the truth is, there are no good, comprehensive, head-to-head reviews of these programs by impartial 3rd parties. Many - probably the most accurate and honest - have negative reviews, by users who have been burned by them. Many have what look to be essentially fake 5-star reviews with no useful commentary. There are 36 in the list, and it seems like new entries in the 'Mac cleaner' market space pop up every day, metastasizing like a cancer. (I did a search for 'cleaner'.) If MacUpdate will let me, I intend to post this every time a new or updated version of one of these things shows up on this site. As a public service to the MacUpdate community, I've found as many of these "cleaner" apps on this website as I could and listed them them below.

DISK XRAY LITE SOFTWARE

This is not a review per se, it is a discussion of the class of software to which this program belongs. Decide how old files you want to remove - one week, one month or one year. You can also set it to find all big files on your disk. This includes the obvious choices of the Trash and your downloads folder, and also includes locations you may not otherwise think to purge or even know where to find - application logs, web browser caches and cookies, application caches and an ever-growing list of email attachments stored locally but never cleaned.

Disk Cleaner - Disk Cleaner speeds up your computer and by finding and removing temporary files on your computer.

All duplicate files are checked byte-by- byte to give you 100% guarantee they are exact copies. This scan can reveal just how many copies of the same document or photo or other type of file you have saved, scattered through your disk.

Duplicate Files Finder - Duplicate Files Detector frees up a disk space by finding and deleting duplicate files and folders thereby giving you a chance to recover gigabytes of your disk space.

At a glance you can identify which folders are the space hogs and just what is in them by successively drilling down.

Folder Scanner - Folder scanner is a visual disk/folder analyser that enables you to spot large files and folders on your disk - be it an entire hard disk or a subfolder - giving a sorted breakup of just where your disk space is going.

It also provides you maximum security, restoring all files if you removed something accidentally. It performs three fundamental functions, and it performs them extremely well. Disk Xray is a disk-usage statistics viewer, duplicate files and folders finder and cleanup tool for OS X.