Similarly, if you click the Applications tab, CCleaner will display options for other web browsers (such as Firefox, Chrome, etc.), as well as checkboxes to clean temporary files for other applications installed on your Mac (such as iMovie, iTunes, Microsoft Office, and so forth.) If you want to clean these applications in addition to OS X itself, you must click Analyze and Clean from the Applications tab.

After it finishes analyzing your Mac, it will show how many files will be deleted, and how much disk space will be recovered. Once you have the settings you want, click Analyze, and CCleaner will work for a few moments. You can pick and choose which items to clean by deselecting individual items’ checkboxes. The app will also empty the trash and clear out a number of caches and log files. The app will clean Safari’s Internet cache, history, cookies, and download history. When the app is first opened, it shows cleaning options for OS X itself. FeaturesĬCleaner offers a number of features that will help keep your Mac clean and optimized. For the purposes of this review, I tested the app on OS X 10.6.8 and OS X 10.7.2.

Installing CCleaner is quick and easy System RequirementsĬCleaner for Mac will run on any Mac with OS X 10.5 or higher. CCleaner is not available from the Mac App Store, since it needs more access to the Mac’s file system than a sandboxed Mac App Store app is allowed. This makes installation quick and easy, in keeping with the tradition of app installation on the Mac. The app uses the typical install process of dragging the icon to an alias of the Applications folder. The utility also includes features to repair the permissions on your filesystem, wipe free space and clean Chrome’s omnibox. The final release for Mac offers cookie management, allowing you to choose to keep all of your cookies, some cookies for persistent logins, or (by default) clear all of your cookies. The app adds cleaning capabilities for Safari, Google Chrome, Opera and Firefox. CCleaner for Mac has been in beta for a while, but the final version of the utility was released on January 30. One of my favorite utilities for cleaning up the Windows PCs my clients bring to me, Piriform’s CCleaner, has come to the Mac.

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