![]() ![]() It gives you the option of selecting duplicates for deletion on a file by file basis, but without instructions, I happened upon clicking on a checkbox icon at the bottom of the screen that selected all duplicates, saving one copy of each, saving me from clicking over a thousand times. The Duplicates Finder section looked solid. The only problem I found were more missing registration codes, but those could have been trashed previously courtesy of the Junk cleaning function. Trashing unneeded binary files, which would have been 141.9 MB, brought up two permission screens and cleaned 136 MB. So although FULL-DISKfighter promised to save space by clearing out unneeded language files, it couldn’t accomplish the task any better than the competition. CleanMyMac never tried to delete protected files and therefore never showed an error screen regarding protection. It seemed that in competition with CleanMyMac, FULL-DISKfighter got it wrong. Trashing unneeded language files brought up the permission error screens again and didn’t delete any files that CleanMyMac hadn’t already deleted. Since the files containing that information had been wiped out as not being needed, I questions the program’s definition of junk, since these files personal information were summarily deleted. If it wants to delete files that need to have permissions changed, either it should do it itself or it shouldn’t be messing with those files.Īfter it finished I found that a lot of software had lost registration codes. I would consider this a major flaw of the program. I was given the option of applying the same action to all the error permission boxes so the error boxes won’t pop up, but I wanted to see how many files were affected. At the end of this process I saved 2.3 GB. I manually dismissed 137 error permission boxes. Lots of error boxes appeared telling me that I didn’t have permission to delete files. Killing off things in Application Support didn’t seem so safe, but I took the program’s suggestions which indicated that it would free 2.8 GB and pulled the trigger, making note of some programs that could be affected. plists are no problem since they will be rebuilt when the program is re-run. Knowing which ones are safe to delete is a crap-shoot, but a contact at the company told me that killing off. plist files that will be rebuilt but some are Application Support files. In the Junk Files Found in Your System section, some files are checked by default and others aren’t. The first of the three sections is Fast Clean Up, and is divided into junk, excess languages and Universal Binaries.Īfter scanning for over 35 minutes, it did find quite a lot of stuff and, although not a fair comparison since CleanMyMac doesn’t delete duplicates, it told me that I could save over 80 GB. I wanted to see if FULL-DISKfighter could find anything that CleanMyMac didn’t, as well as check out its other capabilities.Īlthough there is some information on the SpamFighter site, there was no help built into FULL-DISKfighte,r so running the program and deciding what should be deleted wasn’t as clear as it could have been. Firstly I ran CleanMyMac which keeps an internal listing of programs not to mess with and by default is quite conservative on what it will automatically delete. That’s because when you’re messing with a program that can delete files, it’s better to be safe than sorry. This app was tested on a Mac that wasn’t mission critical and could easily be restored with a Time-Machine backup. I was very interested in comparing FULL-DISKfighter to CleanMyMac since I have a number of Macs and could save some serious money with FULL-DISKfighter. It’s not available in the App store, and costs that range between US$29.95 for one computer to US$74.95 for a five computer family pack. It doesn’t find duplicates or have the file finding capabilities of FULL-DISKfighter but it does have some features that FULL-DISKfighter hasn’t such as fully uninstalling applications. CleanMyMac finds junk, such as deleted program left-overs, universal binary code, unused languages, as well as caches and log files. It doesn’t have exactly the same feature set as FULL-DISKfighter, but there is quite a bit of overlap. I have been a satisfied user of CleanMyMac from Macpaw for quite some time. ![]() If you buy it from the App store, you can use it on all your Macs for the same $9.95 If you check Amazon, the Mac version is also $29.95 but it can be gotten for $9.95 from both the SpamFighter site and the Apple App store. The PC version, which has more features, sells for US$29.95 and I think that’s why there is a bit of confusion as to pricing. FULL-DISKfighter has been around for the PC for some time and is new to the Mac market. ![]()
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