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Very few Mac users have ever come to fully appreciate the wonders of Disk Utility. Charters Washington Apple Pi Journal, reprint Protection Preferences: If you want to grossly slow your Mac down and have TTP use up gobs of drive space, this 'feature' is the way to do it.Home About Membership Calendar Events Journal Help Community Resources Whimsy Twitter Facebook TechTool Pro 6: Beyond Disk Utility © 2012 Lawrence I. Bottom line, you don't need to do this manually at any time. For hard drives, the OS will automatically defrag files above a certain size if they need it. It doesn't matter how fragmented a file is on an SSD since every cell will read just as fast as it would if the pieces of data being read were all adjacent to each other. EVER! You will only succeed in wearing out the drive faster. You replace it.įile optimization (also normally referred to as defragmentation). Video memory? Same as their RAM test, since video memory is RAM (a faster type). If bad blocks are found, the drive automatically moves the data on those areas to good blocks and maps out the bad ones so they can't be used anymore. The surface scan part of it (for rotating hard drives) is already done automatically and continuously by the drive's own firmware. If disk errors are found, run Disk Utility. If there is a rare issue with RAM, the only repair possible is to replace it. Rebuilding system caches isn't something that needs to be done on any type of schedule.ĭiagnostics and Repair: And we're back to restart with the D key. Take control of your Mac: The Mac will clean reports and other aspects of the Mac itself. The chances you will ever have a bad stick to even find errors on are very low. RAM is also far more reliable that a decade or more ago. Restart and hold down the D key.Īdvanced Memory Testing: Again. Take It With You: So you can punish someone else's Mac?Ĭomplete Hardware Testing: Each Mac has its own built-in hardware test. If it isn't trash, don't put it in the trash to start with. The simple trick though to avoid the need for such an app is the same as your real trash can at home. Nice if you don't mind watching your drive's space slowly fill to the brim with 'deleted' files that are still on the drive. In other words, the data is never actually deleted.

If you empty the trash, TTP redirects the contents of the trash to a hidden folder. Protect Important Data: Okay, slightly useful. Mac Drive Testing and Repair: That's one of the things Disk Utility does.Įmergency Startup Disk: Disk Utility can create a clone startup disk. Internet Speed: There are many web sites that will speed test your Internet connection for free. Tech Tool Pro is a $99 app that doesn't really do much of anything useful that you can't already do without it. Since they sell this utter trash as subscription only software, it may be difficult to get a refund. Just click on scan button it will remove all related files immediately of mackeeper.

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You can also use Malwarebytes | Malwarebytes for Mac Restart the Mac from apple logo and empty the trash.

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Īlso if the app is in download folder it is moved to the trash. plist are dragged and dropped to the trash. įolder - .Helperįolder - Mackeeper - and its subfolder - statistic 2įolder - Mackeeper 3 - and its subfolder - NE notificationsįolder - įolder - .plist Įnter in System Library - Click on finder and take cursor on top menu bar, click on Go > computer > Macintosh HDĬom.Ĭom.Ĭom.Ĭom.Įnter in User Library - click on finder > Go > hold option key > Library, these are the locations where malware hide.

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How to delete Mac keeper malware manually. You wrote - I have both installed and wonder if I really need these.if you are using it uninstall them the app can corrupt system files.