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Best free software to clean out system?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1235269" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>If you migrate your user profile over, you are also migrating back all the "junk" that you are trying to get rid of. I actually spent a bit of time last weekend rooting through my system. I decided to kick out once and for all older apps that required Rosetta, others that were trialware but I never bothered to register, etc. I also went through the Library and found a plethora of plist files and other "support" files that dated back to my prior Mac. It all got imported in when I migrated my user over. I wish I had documented more of that job. I cleaned out a LOT of cruft, although it should also be said that those files weren't impacting my system performance in the first place. This isn't Windows and there's no great need to worry about relic support files.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Actually I didn't go through my wife's user folder, and there's a lot of old cruft I can clean up there. I'll try some tools to help automate this and report back how it works out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1235269, member: 38864"] If you migrate your user profile over, you are also migrating back all the "junk" that you are trying to get rid of. I actually spent a bit of time last weekend rooting through my system. I decided to kick out once and for all older apps that required Rosetta, others that were trialware but I never bothered to register, etc. I also went through the Library and found a plethora of plist files and other "support" files that dated back to my prior Mac. It all got imported in when I migrated my user over. I wish I had documented more of that job. I cleaned out a LOT of cruft, although it should also be said that those files weren't impacting my system performance in the first place. This isn't Windows and there's no great need to worry about relic support files. EDIT: Actually I didn't go through my wife's user folder, and there's a lot of old cruft I can clean up there. I'll try some tools to help automate this and report back how it works out. [/QUOTE]
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