Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows?

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows?
Date	2016-03-27 22:49 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<270320162249284008%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References	<ju2dnbHbst8D-WXLnZ2dnUU7-N2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <slrnnfgvir.2leu.g.kreme@amelia.local> <56f8948b$0$39437$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com>

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

In article <56f8948b$0$39437$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> > OS X disks don't get filled with useless crap that doesn't get removed
> 
> swap/page files only get removed at boot time. So if you rarely reboot,
> you could end up with more allocated space than necessary.

wrong

> > like Windows does. Most apps you remove by simply dragging to the trash.
> 
> Only dragging the app to trash leaves the preferences in the ~Library
> and possibly many support files in /Library.  In the case of Adobe CS6,
> the icense is stored in files whose names are totally unrealted to
> Adobe. And Adobe seems to be creating directories in many many places
> leaving some junk there.

those files are normally very small, usually just a few kilobytes.

Back to comp.sys.mac.apps | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-27 17:54 -0500
  Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-03-27 17:29 -0600
    Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-03-28 12:07 +1200
  Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-27 19:30 -0400
  Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-03-28 00:40 +0000
    Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-27 22:18 -0400
      Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-27 22:49 -0400
      Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-03-28 04:57 +0000
        Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-28 01:47 -0400
          Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-28 10:34 -0400
            Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-28 19:08 +0000
          Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-03-29 03:04 +0000
            Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-29 01:27 -0400
              Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-29 02:16 -0400
                Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-03-28 23:39 -0700
                Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? android <here@there.was> - 2016-03-29 08:49 +0200
                Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-03-29 00:06 -0700
                Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? android <here@there.was> - 2016-03-29 09:23 +0200
                Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2016-03-29 09:41 -0500
                Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? android <here@there.was> - 2016-03-29 16:55 +0200
                Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-29 14:42 -0400
              Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-03-29 14:30 +0000
  Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-03-28 13:19 +1200
  Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? android <here@there.was> - 2016-03-28 06:54 +0200
  Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? android <here@there.was> - 2016-03-28 06:58 +0200
  Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-03-28 10:53 -0400
    Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? android <here@there.was> - 2016-03-28 17:22 +0200
  Re: Does Mac OS X come with a Disk Cleanup software like in Windows? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-03-30 12:07 -0500

csiph-web