To be able to remove iMessage attachments, Clean Me requires full disk access.

Click the little folder icon to open the specific folder which will be cleaned.

Again, if you do not provide the password, it will skip those files. If a certain topic requires root, it will ask for the root password.

Click Clean to delete all topics that are selected.

If you do not provide the password, Clean Me will just skip those files for which it requires root and display 0 MB. This will ask for your administrator's password for scanning the directories that require root.

Click analyse to see how much space each topic consumes.

Click the app logo to see some other apps that I can recommend to clean and maintain your mac.

When you've opened the app, you have 4 options:

Now you can access Clean Me like any other macOS app on your system.

(Only the first time) In the Applications directory, right-click the file and chose open.

Copy the unzipped file ( Clean me.app) to you Applications directory on your MacBook.

Install it as follows:īrew install vitorgalvao/tiny-scripts/cask-repairĬlean Me can be installed like any other macOS app file: This way, the permissions of the directory will also not change, which is a security baseline.Ĭlean Me can be installed using Homebrew cask or manually via the releases on this GitHub repository. This is because some programs rely on the existence of the directory. Only the content of the directory will be cleaned. In that case, remove the app as soon as possible.Ĭlean Me also will not delete the directory itself. Normally Clean Me should not request an internet connection, if it does, you app is compromised. If you do not trust Clean Me, then check its code or block all internet access with Little Snitch or RadioSilence. Clean Me does not save this password, nor does it load the password in a variable. What I do recommend are also the options that are checked when the app loads: emptying the trash, deleting Xcode derived data and mail attachments (once in a while).Ĭlean Me uses the pod ' STPrivilegedTask' to handle sensitive data like getting your root password. A large log file mostly indicates that a program (or your system) has some problems that need to be resolved.

Large log files can be deleted after inspection. If you do have a problem and want to delete the cache of some specific programs, I suggest you to click on the folder icon and search for that program and delete it this way.

This will not save you some precious space on your disk. If you delete it, the program will not only start slower, but will regenerate the cache files again. Cache files are what makes your programs load faster and perform tasks faster. I do not recommend you to delete your cache files. the cleaning option was just a handy extra feature. I wrote this app just for fast analysing purposes. A list of all scanned directories can be found here.

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