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G MacPaw CleanMyMac User Guide CleanMyMac User Guide www.macpaw.com Last updated on Sep 20, 2011. For application version 1.10. Designed by Paul Grozyan. Written by Bogdan Grechanovsky. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Chapter 1. Introducing CleanMyMac Overview Key Features System Requirements Download and Installation Chapter 2. Getting Started Online Activation Phone Activation Help Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Scanning and Cleaning Caches Logs Language Files Universal Binaries System Junk Trashes & Leftovers Manage Extensions Uninstall Applications Quick Erase Files Authentication Ignore List Chapter 4. Preferences General Automatic Appearance Privacy & Updates Chapter 5. FAQ Frequently Asked Questions Up pp 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 Overview Overview CleanMyMac is the world’s most easy-to-use cleaning solution. A tool that includes all you need to keep your Mac Clean and Healthy. CleanMyMac allows you to enjoy smooth system performance combining such vital features as Universal Binaries slimming, removal of unneeded Languages, cleaning Logs and Caches, Quick and Secure erasing, Extensions Management, Application Uninstallation, removal of trash left from previously uninstalled applications and many more. The more junk files are stored on your Mac the slower it will work. Processes of saving and storing unnecessary files take your priceless time. CleanMyMac will professionally help your Mac reduce the amount of operations required for your online and offline activities. It will save gigabytes of disk space and enhance your computer’s speed as a result. Go ahead and give it a shot! Your Mac will definitely be grateful! Key Features = Easy to use, user-friendly interface; = Drag and drop nature; = Slims universal binaries; = Removes useless language translations; = Most accurate application uninstallation; = Quick and Secure file eraser; = Manages widgets, plugins and preference panes; = Erases garbage left from previously removed applications and widgets; = Monitors your Trash helping you to uninstall trashed applications correctly; = Keeps an eye on your removable devices to clean them up from junk service files. System Requirements Works on both Intel and PowerPC Macs. = Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher; = 17.5 MB of disk space. CleanMyMac User Guide. C Chapter 1. Introducing CleanMyMac Key Features pyright System Requirements 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved Download and Installation Chapter 2. Getting Started Download and Installation 1. Please click here to download CleanMyMac or visit our website and click Free Download. 2. Run the downloaded CleanMyMac.dmg 3. Drag the CleanMyMac icon to the Applications folder. items, 299.9 M8 available DRAG TO. INSTALL To install drag the CleanMyMac icon to the Applications folder. Now that you have installed CleanMyMac, you can launch it from your Applications folder. ¥ DEVICES © Macintosh HD (L) CleanMyMac » SHARED Y PLACES FA desktop @ grozyan {9} Documents » CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 2. Getting Started Download and Installation Alternatively, you can quickly get to the application using Spotlight: Sesiiiiae cleanmymad © Show All [] CleanMyMac — Applications Applications (Gl) CleanMyMac — Applications And, of course, you can decide to keep the CleanMyMac icon in the Dock and launch it from there later: CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 2. Getting Started Online Activation Online Activation Please follow these step-by-step activation instructions for your copy of CleanMyMac: 1. Click Activate on right upper corner of main window. 000 CleanMyMac == Oise Gis? ‘kan rows desertion Fes ree If you have purchased a box version of CleanMyMac, you will be presented with an activation dialog automatically on the first launch of the application. The application Welcome! will also require you to accept our . license agreement and provide your Keep your Mac Clean and Healthy First Name and Last Name, which Language Files will be used as a confirmation of your purchase later. My Mac Last scanned on: Never Total space recovered: Zero KB Result @ Manage Ext 2. Select your option in the Activation dialog. CleanMyMac Activation Please activate your CleanMyMac version. An activated version allows you to clean more than S00 MB of found items and unlocks every feature including the Applications Uninstaller and Extensions Manager. Click on ‘Buy License’ to visit our online store and select the license you would like to purchase. Enter Activation Number... 1. Click on Buy License to visit our web-store to get acquainted with pricing and consider purchasing CleanMyMac. 2. Click on Later to continue using the Demo version with a SOOMB limitation. 3. By clicking Enter Activation Number you can activate CleanMyMac using the Activation Number from your confirmation mail or the product box. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 2. Getting Started Online Activation 3. Enter your Activation Number Please make sure you include all the letters and numbers. Avoid entering blank spaces. As soon as a correct number is in the field, the application will be activated automatically. 4. Successful Activation! Congratulations! Now you can use your activated copy of CleanMyMac. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 2. Getting Started Phone Activation Phone Activation If your Mac does not have Internet connection or the connection is limited, you will receive the following error message when entering your Activation Number: If you have purchased a box " version of CleanMyMac, you will be CleanMyMac Connection Error presented with an activation dialog automatically on the first launch of the application. The application a CleanMyMac couldn't connect to the activation server. will also require you to accept our = license agreement and provide your Please check your Internet connection or Firewall First Name and Last Name, which settings and try again. will be used as a confirmation of your purchase later. Click Activate By Phone to proceed with phone activation, or click Try Again if you know that you have re-established Internet connection or disabled your Firewall. The necessary steps are described in the activation dialog itself. Please just call the number that is provided in the dialog and follow the instructions of the operator step-by-step. As soon as you receive your Confirmation Number from the operator, please just put it into the corresponding field and CleanMyMac will be activated. CleanMyMac Offline Activation To activate CleanMyMac via Phone please dial +1 (888) 352 1710 and follow these 3 easy steps: Dial the digits from the activation number and confirm by pressing #. Make sure it matches the Activation Number you recelved before. EEE if the activation number was correct, dial the validation number below and press #: Than k You! Validation number: © successfully activated CleanMyMac! ) join our communities to keep up with the atest MacPaw news and events You will be provided with a confirmation number. Please type it into the field below to complete the activation: Confirmation number: ( ) ae CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved. Help Click on the "Help” button to get to the Help dialog. e0°0 Help £ Support Information CleanMyMac Chapter 2. Getting Started Help a x Scan Preferences - CleanMyMac ©) Getting Started ©) More Info Help ©) User Guide © Knowledge Base © F.A.Q. Support c_ <7 a ©) Contact Support ©) Suggest a Feature ©) Report a Problem Stay Informed Fi Using the Help dialog of CleanMyMac you can easily access our Support center or get additional info on the product. If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to contact our Customer Support. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Scanning and Cleaning Td Scanning and Cleaning Here you can find a brief description of all the main components that CleanMyMac includes. e000 “CleanMyMac Q oa results description | x we 2 . Help My Mac — ¥ Welcome! Keep your Mac Clean and Healthy ¥v xB Last scanned on: Today Total space recovered: 276.49 GB Eee Share Result # System Junk Universal Binaries | Language Files ‘\ ES KB Trashes & Leftovers S 292 299999 To start the scan just click on the “Scan” button. Prior to that you can check or uncheck the items you would like to be scanned. Please note that the modules TheasharelRecults burronicanice of the Utilities section cannot be selected, because they can only be used removed from the Welcome screen on demand. by control-clicking on it. After the scan is completed, click “Clean” to remove the found items. You can also check or uncheck what you would like to remove. If needed, you can go through each of the components and uncheck the particular items you would like to keep. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved 1. Caches The Cache data is where OS X stores data it needs to access often. It also stores a lot of information that you don’t use and can only be accessed in case you will use it again. Sometimes the cache gets corrupt because of software updates, conflicts and unexpected quits, which can cause problems. You can even experience applications or system crashes caused by a corrupt library cache. To prevent the cache from becoming corrupt, you should regularly delete everything from Cache folders. CleanMyMac will allow you to clean User Cache, iPod Photo Cache and System Cache. However, in order to clean the System Cache files you will need to authenticate yourself as an administrator by entering your username and password. \e0e CleanMyMac User Cache Files Found Zero KE is Photo Cache Caches [Es] System Cache Files Logs Found: Zero KE Language Files Found: Zero KE Universal Binaries Found: Zero KE Trashes & Leftovers Found: Zero KE Manage Extensions Foun: KE Uninstall Applications Found: Zero KE Quick Erase Files Found: Ze Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Caches 12 Zero KE A Cache files are intended to make CAC | applications content load faster. yiaee8 4:3 | But when cache files accumulate for a long time, they can slow down your browsing experience, and waste a considerable amount of space. It is recommended to quit the application before cleaning its cache files. CleanMyMac may require to quit some of the running applications to complete the cache cleanup process. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Logs 13 2. Logs By default, Mac OS X logs a fair bit of information into several files in the following directories: /Volumes/Your-hard-drive-name/Library/Logs/ /Volumes/Your-hard-drive-name/private/var/log/ /Volumes/Your-hard-drive-name/Users/Your-user-name/Library/Logs/ Here are some examples of the events that are logged: = Firewall (ipfw) blocked packets; = Web server access and error messages; = Informational messages, such as subsystem status messages; = Use of privilege escalation tools and more information that is useless for you. It actually means that you will end up devoting good hard disk space to log files. CleanMyMac can easily scan for those files and remove them. You can choose if you want to scan and clean User Log Files or System Log Files, or both. System Logs cleanup requires administrator privileges. i User Log Files comin ioe fle Log files capture the activity of different applications and system j Caches services, Sometimes, log files can ¥ si grow up to hundreds of F TE found Zero KE megabytes, wasting useful disk space. For a home user, there is no need to keep those files and it |s absolutely safe to clean old log files. ¥ Universal Binaries Found: Z. System junk @ Trashes & Leftovers Found: Zero KE Manage Extensions Uninstall Applications Found Ze Quick Erase Files CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved 3. Language Files When you install an application on Mac OS X, localization files for over a doze languages are installed. These files enable the application’s interface to appear in a variety of languages. You can save disk space by removing unneeded localization files using this module. Sometimes this single cleanup module can make some of your apps take up to 70% less disk space. ane CleanMyMac == Found Zero KE (1) Caches Found: Zero K Universal Binaries ‘ound: Z System junk Found: Zero KE Trashes & Leftovers Found: Zero KE Manage Extensions Uninstall Applications Found: Zero Quick Erase Files Found: Ze Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Language Files 14 Most applications are available in more than a dozen languages. Each of these waste your disk space, and frequently you need ‘only some of them, Select the languages you need: @ English G Russian G panese G French German G Spanish Select Al Deselect AB CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Universal Binaries 15 4. Universal Binaries A Universal Binary is a term used by Apple for “fat” applications which include executable code for both PPC and Intel processors. Since Universal Binaries contain twice the code of a single platform application, they can be up to twice the size and sometimes, if an application is also aimed to support both 32 and 64-bit architectures (on PPC and Intel), the size of it can be almost four times larger than it is needed for your computer. Use this feature to scan and clean the extra code that you do not need. (PF eeerreniay CleanMyMac — My Mac TUE found Zero KE Universal binaries were compiled both for Intel and PowerPC Caches architectures. But on your Mac, you only use one architecture Found Z code, and there is code that never gets executed and Is wasting your disk space. CleanMyMac can automatically remove the unnecessary code from FAT binaries and make your applications load faster. There might be rare cases when applications can check self modifications to prevent piracy, and they show errors, In this case you can add the application to the Ignore List and share it with other users. | Trashes & Leftovers Fo £ Utilities a Manage Extensions Drop any app to add to the list: Ignore List CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning System Junk 16 5. System Junk Most of the applications create lots of files that are actually needed for debugging purposes only and can be safely removed without affecting the functionality of the OS and the application itself. These are classes.nib, info.nib, .DS_Store and other files that as a rule are located in localization folders. This module of CleanMyMac will easily help you get rid of all the development junk files. In addition to this, the OS creates lots of service files in all the folders of your computer that store some additional data, which, in fact, bares no relation to the integrity of your personal files and can be easily removed. These additional files become annoying on your flash drives and mp3-players, because they can be treated as corrupted media-files. Just drag any folder, volume or application onto the System Junk area and you will be able to remove all the junk files, stored on them or related to them. Extremely handy and saves some space. CleanMyMac will help you remove .DS_Store files, Spotlight-V100 folders and other items, which is especially useful for removable devices such as flash-drives and mp3-players, because they can treat these files as incorrectly formatted media files. Lots of apps include redundant files that are used only for debugging purposes and, therefore, can be safely removed. CleanMyMac will also cleanup files like: classes.nib, info.nib, — data.dependency, designable.nib yp [™ a with no harm to your eA applications. Drag any folder, volume or app here 4\,_Uninstall Applications oft Drop any app here to add to the list: Ignore List CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved 6. Trashes & Leftovers All types of software leave traces of their work and if you even remove an app, all the old leftovers are still there somewhere on your disk. CleanMyMac will help you locate and clean all the application and widget leftovers, empty the hidden Trash folders, including iPhoto Trash and remove any of the broken Preference Panes. Using this module you will also remove the ‘Startup Items’ entries that refer to ano longer existing files. ane CleanMyMac My Mac TE found: Zero KE . (TL) Caches F a 7 | 7 4) iy ‘W Utilities Trashes & Leftovers F Manage Extensions Uninstall Applications Found: Ze Quick Erase Files Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Trashes & Leftovers 17 Trashes & Leftover: Literally all types of software leave a noticeable amount of traces on your system. These are the files left from previously trashed applications, widgets and broken preference panes. CleanMyMac will help you remove all of those and will also detect startup items that refer to a non- existing files. Moreover, this module of CleanMyMac will locate iPhoto Trash files to clean them up. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Manage Extensions 18 7. Manage Extensions This utility of CleanMyMac has three sub-modules to manage your Widgets, Preference Panes and Plugins. You can easily and correctly uninstall any of those by simply selecting the undesired extension and clicking the Uninstall button. ane CleanMyMac Remove any Widget, Plugin or Preference Pane safely. ‘yt [widgets "TE found Zero KE Widgets are mini-applications i Currency Converter that you download and install into @) Coches your Dashboard to add new WING) functionality. You can easily Found: Z £ | remove unwanted widgets and their support files with + jo 2] CleanMyMac. ¥ Universal Binaries N Found: Z System junk MEO Trashes & Leftovers ‘UW F é Utilities Manage Exte Uninstall Applications Found: Ze A. Widgets Shows all the widgets you have downloaded. There is no need to open your Dashboard to remove a Widget, just select it in the list and click Uninstall. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning B. Preferences Here you can see and uninstall the preferences panes of different programs installed. Just select the ones you do not need and they will be removed with all their related files after you click Uninstall. You can look through the found related files by clicking on the disclosure triangles next to the preference panes. TUE found: Zero KE Caches 4) Found: Z Perian > Growl WacomTablet 25.14 MB Language Files efi fruu 3.45 MB Universal Binaries Uninstall Applications Found: Ze Quick Erase Files 19 Manage Extensions When you install Preferences panes to your system they usually come with a number of support files that will be placed in different folders on your hard disk. The best way to remove them Is to remove all of the files CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Manage Extensions 20 C. Plugins They extend or modify the functionality of some applications. Sometimes they are downloaded automatically and you do not even know of their existence. Here you can check the plugins you would like to remove. Also you can check the related content by clicking the disclosure triangle located to the left of a plugin. e0e CleanMyMac My Mac ~ Plugins are components that ‘® QuickTime Player plugins extend or modify features of your Caches system or some applications, 4 ate Here you can easily uninstall any Found: Zero KE A Mail plugins 2.91 MB plugin. Click on the triangle on the left to see all the related c ins, th Z@ Screen Savers 1.5 MB plains, and cae sonst yer nd Zero KE Logs Quic k plugins MB @ Spotlight plugins 6.2 MB Dictionaries 351.82 MB ™, Address Book plugins 264 KB (G Startup Items 68 KB @) iTunes plugins Manage Extensi Found: 418.81 MB Growl plugins 8.3 MB Uninstall Applications Safari plugins 34.86 MB Found: Ze Quick Erase Files Widgets Preferences Plugins CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Uninstall Applications 21 8. Uninstall Applications Dragging an application to Trash is not enough to completely remove it. The applica- tion can leave quite a lot of dependent files that will be just useless for your system. To uninstall an application correctly, just drag it into the Application Uninstaller area shown above. CleanMyMac will scan and find all the files related to this application. This is much better than just dragging an application into the Trash, because Clean- MyMac has a number of special inbuilt features that can analyze installed packages and identify literally all the dependent files of the application you remove. This will make sure you completely uninstall the unnecessary application just after you hit the Remove button. Alternatively, you can drag an unnecessary application directly onto the CleanMyMac Dock icon and it will offer you to uninstall it. You can easily uninstall unwanted applications just by dragging them to “CleanMyMac™. Before removing: ¥ Check if the files in the list are related to the specific app. ¥ if you are unsure about a certain file, it is better to uncheck it. By removing unknown files you can corrupt other applications. ¥ Be careful to not remove any system files. ¥ In case that the application has an uninstaller, it Is recommended to use it in the first place. Found Trashes & Leftovers Drag Apps Here Found: Z Manage Extensions Rebuild CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved 9. Quick Erase Files Use this feature to remove files without emptying the whole Trash. Just drag and drop a file into the area of this CleanMyMac Utility and the file will be removed after you click Erase. Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Quick Erase Files 22 If you wish to remove the file physically, so that it will be impossible to recover it using any special tools, please check the “Use Secure Erase” option. With this option enabled, CleanMyMac will overwrite the files three times while deleting them. ane My Mac ET Found: Zero KE (L) Caches ¥ = J Fo Language F: Trashes & Lefto' Manage Extensions Uninstall Applications Found: Ze Quick Eras CleanMyMac al alae You can quickly and simply remove unwanted files without moving them to trash. Plus, you will have the possibility to remove the files that Finder won't let you remove. To be completely protected you can use the secure erase to overwrite files three times and be sure that they won't be restored, @ Use Secure Erase CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Authentication 23 10. Authentication To authenticate yourself as an administrator, just click the LockPad button and enter your Name and Password into the dialog that appears. You can use the “Authenticate” option in the Action menu of CleanMyMac as an alternative to clicking the Lock. Type your password to allow CleanMyMac to “ ~ make changes. _A Name: Your Name Password: sesseeseecees| » Details Click OK to authenticate and remove all the items that require authentication. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Chapter 3. Scanning and Cleaning Ignore List If you would like to exclude an application from the scanning and cleaning process, just add it to the Ignore List. Click on the “Ignore List” button in the info- tab of the Universal Binaries or System Junk modules and use the corresponding buttons to add or remove an application. You can also drag and drop an application directly onto the “Ignore List” Button. Please note that you can share your Ignore List. In case you enable this feature in Preferences, we will receive this information and test CleanMyMac with the application you have added to find if there are really any issues with it. If we do find a problem, we add this application into the default ignore list of the nearest revision of CleanMyMac, so that it does not scan that application while we are fixing the issue. Therefore, please share your ignore list only in case you add the programs you really had issues with. The ‘Show/Hide Shared List’ button will allow you to see the apps that are ignored by CleanMyMac by default. @e0e Applications Ignore List = ws a | Q Add Remove Show Shared List Search These applications will be ignored while scanning: In addition to this, disregarding the fact that we precisely test CleanMyMac and try to make it absolutely harmless, we still strongly recommend you to backup your system prior to complete cleanup of your applications, which includes removal of languages, binaries and development junk. You can use TimeMachine or any other backup utility. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright 24 Ignore List 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved Chapter 4. Preferences General 25 Preferences You can additionally customize your CleanMyMac experience by modifying some of its settings. Click “Preferences” in the main window. CleanMyMac Welcome! Keep your Mac Clean and Healthy A detailed description of all of them is presented below. @) ——|F ESSE} Automatic Appearance Privacy & Updates |} G@ Play sounds @ Slim protected applications Slimming protected (codesigned) application could cause problems while using Firewall. @ Use Secure Erase if enabled, the Secure Erase feature will physically overwrite the files you remove using Quick Erase for three times. This will ensure that the files you remove could not be recovered with any special tools. Keep the following languages: & Englist @ Russian @ ppanese @ French @ German @ Spanisn @ hatian @ Portuguese @ Portuguese (Portugal) @ duch Select All Deselect All CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 4. Preferences General 26 1. General @e0 CleanMyMac Configure CleanMyMac : Scan | Preferences! Help Automatic Appearance Privacy & Updates | (A}——— G Play sounds (s)}—s Slim protected applications Slimming protected (codesigned) application could cause problems while using Firewall. (¢)}—— @ Use Secure Erase if enabled, the Secure Erase feature will physically overwrite the files you remove using Quick Erase for three times. This will ensure that the files you remove could not be recovered with any special tools. (0 )}—__—ep the following languages: @ Russian @ hapanese @ French @ German @ Spanish @ ttalian @ Portuguese @ Portuguese (Portugal) @ Dutch Select All) Deselect Ail A. Play Sounds Enable or disable sound effects of CleanMyMac. B. Slim Protected Applications In case you use system Firewall, the fact you slim any code-signed applications will make Firewall ask you to allow incoming connections for these applications Slimming code-signed applications is not every time you launch them. This can be annoying for some users, so just set it available on Mac OS X Tiger up according to your personal preference. The functionality of the apps will not be affected in any way. C. Use Secure Erase This setting duplicates the checkbox in the Info-tab of the Quick Erase Files module of CleanMyMac. Enable this and none of the files you erase will be possible to recover. D. Keep the following languages. CleanMyMac automatically adds the languages you have on your computer. You can uncheck any of the languages and CleanMyMac will clean them out. The list you see in CleanMyMac is taken from System Preferences of your Mac. It can be edited in ‘Localizations’ module of System Preferences on Leopard and ‘Language & Text’ module on Snow Leopard and Lion. CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved 2. Automatic eo CleanMyMac Preferences 0 i al {_ General FESIEETSM] Appearance Privacy & Updates G Enable automatic Application Uninstaller This feature will launch CleanMyMac if you attempt to remove any other application by simply dragging it to the Trash. CleanMyMac will scan the application and fing all of its cependent files so that you could remove all of them, @ Enable Trash Status Monitor { 368 This feature lets you set a limit for the total size of files in your Trash so that CleanMyMac periodically checks if the limit is reached and helps you empty the Trash automatically, G Enable Devices cleanup G@ Enable automatic trashes cleanup This feature will remove service Trash folders from the external devices you eject, bebe @ Enable automatic Mac OS service junk cleanup This feature will automatically remove service .OS_Store files and .Spotlight-V100 folders on eject. Mac OS automatically creates these items on every removable device. @ Enable automatic Windows service junk cleanup This feature will automatically remove Thumbs.db files and RECYCLED folders on eject. Windows creates these items on every removable device, A. Enable Automatic Application Uninstaller This will make CleanMyMac launch automatically on your attempts to simply Trash other applications so that you always uninstall them correctly and completely. B. Enable Trash Status Monitor This feature allows CleanMyMac to monitor the size of your Trash and to empty it when the limit you set is reached. The checks are periodic, so CleanMyMac will just notify you from time to time that you can free some space by emptying the Trash. C. Enable Devices Cleanup The Devices cleanup option allows you to enable or disable the features that would automatically monitor your external devices for miscellaneous junk files and automatically remove them. You have a choice of three sub-features to scan for Trashes, Mac OS Service Junk and Windows Service Junk on your devices. Set this up to your personal preference. In case you never connect your devices to Windows computers, you do not need the third feature enabled. Summing it up, these automatic features will help you keep your external devices clean from any additional stuff without even having to launch CleanMyMac. This includes such items as .DS_Store, .Spotlight-V100, Thumbs.db, RECYCLED and tons of additional metadata files that start with ‘._’. = ees | Chapter 4. Preferences Automatic The monitoring features require a small helper process to run in your system. It does not affect the overall performance of your Mac. These feature require a small helper process to run while a device is connected. This process will not have any noticeable influence on the overall performance. 27 CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved 3. Appearance Chapter 4. Preferences Appearance 28 Here you have a possibility to set the looks of CleanMyMac. A choice of two themes is currently available — “Titanium” and “Marble”. e000 CleanMyMac AX Contour Cearmac ——| General Automatic | 22-2 <=" | Privacy & Updates Color theme: | Titanium Welcome! Kame yor Mac Gear and Haarry CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved. 4. Privacy & Updates @e0 CleanMyMac Ae Ay XM | ? Scan | Preferences Help | General Automatic Appearance (a) Prva G Share system information To help us make CleanMyMac better, you can send us anonymous system and applications information while checking for updates. This won't include any personal info. (8 }+_——s Share your Ignore List If you have added some applications to the Ignore List, you can share this list with us for extensive testing and resolving the possible issues for CleanMyMac users. (¢)}——— Updates: &% Check for updates automatically G Update to Beta versions when available Please be careful when updating to Beta versions as they include experimental features and can be unstable or result in data loss. Last check: Sep 20, 2011 4:38 PM Check Now A. Share system information Please enable this feature to make it easier for us to improve the application. This has nothing to do with your personal information, CleanMyMac will only send a small system report to us while updating. B. Share your Ignore List This setting will allow you to send us the list of apps you have added to the Ignore List of CleanMyMac. We will then run compatibility tests with the apps you have added and if we do find a problem, we add these application into the default Shared Ignore List, so that it does not scan them while we are fixing the issue. Please share your ignore list only in case you add the programs you really had issues with. C. Check for updates automatically Here you can enable the automatic check for CleanMyMac Updates and run an immediate check by clicking “Check Now”. This option will make CleanMyMac run a check for application and Shared Ignore List updates every time you launch it. Please note that it is vital to always have the very latest revision of CleanMyMac, because its functionality depends on the OS and other applications, which are also being updated quite often. Chapter 4. Preferences Privacy & Updates 29 CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. Alll Rights Reserved Frequently Asked Questions Remember that if you have any doubts you can always contact our Customer Support. 1. How do | activate CleanMyMac? If you need to download CleanMyMac, please click here, or refer to the ‘Downloading and Installation’ chapter of this User Guide. To activate CleanMyMac, please follow the steps below: 1.1. Click Activate in the main window. 2.1. Click Enter Activation Number in the dialog that appears. 3.1. Paste your Activation Number into the activation field including all the letters and numbers. 2. After scanning with CleanMyMac one of my applications stopped working. What now? This problem is very rare, but it might happen. In this case please reinstall the application you had problems with, and add it to the Ignore List using the corresponding button in the info-tab of the Universal Binaries. 3. Can you explain what does CleanMyMac clean? CleanMyMac will only clean the files you don’t really need, but they use disk space on your system. For example, logs from previous system activities, localizations, leftovers from previously uninstalled applications and other unnecessary files. To get acquainted with a detailed description of all the items CleanMyMac will clean please refer to the ‘Scanning and Cleaning’ chapter of this User Guide. 4. | have bought MacHider as well, where do | download it? To download and install MacHider please click here, or visit our website and click Download. For more information about MacHider please refer to MacHider User Guide. 5. CleanMyMac keeps popping up even if | do not launch it. Why does it do that? This is most probably related to the fact that you have the Automatic Application Uninstaller feature enabled in CleanMyMac. This makes CleanMyMac launch automatically if you Trash any other application or if there is already an app file in Trash when you try to remove any other files. This can be easily disabled in the Advanced tab of CleanMyMac Preferences. Just deselect the ‘Enable Automatic Application Uninstaller’ checkbox. Chapter 5. FAQ Frequently Asked Questions 30 CleanMyMac User Guide. Copyright © 2011 MacPaw Inc. All Rights Reserved Thank you for using CleanMyMac! 31