Interesting comments re CMM. I found it useful when I discovered that my hard-drive was full, but probably because I’m a non-tech person and wasn’t going to go digging into my disks by myself. I used CMM and DaisyDisk to figure out the problem and fix it (I can’t actually remember what had happened, but vaguely think it was something stupid that Time Machine had done with its snapshots. The issue hasn’t occurred again.) I’ve used DaisyDisk for years (that sounds like I use it regularly - I don’t, I probably only need it once or twice a year, but it’s a good app for seeing what’s going on). It was the first time I’d used CMM but I did check what it wanted to remove before it did anything, and it did find a lot of old files to clear out.
That’s it exactly.
Automated cleanup utilities can be very useful, but they can also be very dangerous. If you don’t know what one is doing and how to clean up if it makes a mess, best to stay far away.
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Clean My Mac is one of the best ways to shoot yourself in the foot. If any of my friends or family admit to having used it, I tell them they’re not getting any more tech support from me.
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That’s exactly what happened to me. Clean My Mac updated its Malware database and announced it had found new Malware instances. When I authorized it to delete the Malware file, it instead completely deleted Devonthink3.app and related app files. I had to reinstall Devonthink and re-do my custom configurations.
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No time machine backup?
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Toffy - I had a full Time Machine backup but it was quicker to download and install the .app file from the Devonthink website. My Time Machine backup might have been helpful in restoring my custom configuration files, but I had no idea where Devonthink stows those config files. Does anyone know?
Same place as the databases:
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