a crap cleaner for mac? or some other useful tool of the such?
is there?
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|CoR|Braveheart
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No, thats why your suppose to buy a PC
vibrokatana
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You shouldn't call people noobs, besides I use a mac
I haven't really found a need to have a cleaning utility, as OSX is pretty easy to maintain. The best practice is to avoid modifying the OS level (ie finder plugins, etc) and install only applications. As some of the stuff can be hard to remove if you don't know where to look. Other then booting up the mac with the install/recovery disk every few months to run a disk optimization you really dont need to do maintenance (besides the usual organization and removing junk you dont use)
I haven't really found a need to have a cleaning utility, as OSX is pretty easy to maintain. The best practice is to avoid modifying the OS level (ie finder plugins, etc) and install only applications. As some of the stuff can be hard to remove if you don't know where to look. Other then booting up the mac with the install/recovery disk every few months to run a disk optimization you really dont need to do maintenance (besides the usual organization and removing junk you dont use)
|CoR|Braveheart
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You shouldn't call people noobs, besides I use a mac
I haven't really found a need to have a cleaning utility, as OSX is pretty easy to maintain. The best practice is to avoid modifying the OS level (ie finder plugins, etc) and install only applications. As some of the stuff can be hard to remove if you don't know where to look. Other then booting up the mac with the install/recovery disk every few months to run a disk optimization you really dont need to do maintenance (besides the usual organization and removing junk you dont use)
Never found the word "Noob" insulting...but i edited it.
well i have never found a need to install something to get rid of stuff i installed.
Corpfox
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Noob
The game definition of noob is usually someone, often in online games who acts in offensive ways to other users or people that surround them and refuse to go away, or stay by any other methods for the sole purpose of annoying others. The word noob can also mean in an online game someone who did something stupid, or asked an obvious question. For example, if someone asks a question answered in the FAQ or is common knowledge, others will call that person a noob.
Newb
Newb is also considered a relatively new person to a game that is inexperienced and doesn't know what they are doing. This term is often addressed as newb(Newbie). However, in recent times this term is infrequently used and has been widely accepted as being replaced by noob.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbie#Game_definition_of_Noob
Either way, its just rude.
vibrokatana said:
What is a cleaning utility?
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my thing is... i only have 11gb of an 80gb drive and i cant even find 40gb worth of space being used...
vibrokatana
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bash ftw, this command lists all the directories with their filesize from the current directory, start at the root and work your way up.
Code:
[sakkaku@Adria ~]$ du -sh $(ls -a)
17G .
17G ..
56K .anjuta
4.0K .asoundrc|CoR|Braveheart
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http://www.macworld.com/ Scroll down, look to the left.
theres a reason terminal is in my little bar thingy at the bottom of the screen.
ok i cleaned out my music folder because itunes was stupid and made duplicates of everything. does everything else seem normal? i have 23gb now
Code:
du: ../atown/Desktop: Permission denied
du: ../atown/Documents: Permission denied
du: ../atown/Library: Permission denied
du: ../atown/Movies: Permission denied
du: ../atown/Music: Permission denied
du: ../atown/Pictures: Permission denied
du: ../atown/Public/Drop Box: Permission denied
29G ..
16K .DS_Store
4.0K .MacOSX
64K .Trash
0B .Xauthority
4.0K .bash_history
492K .fonts.cache-1
4.0K .lpoptions
0B .macports
4.0K .mime.types
4.0K .mplayer
4.0K .profile
26M .spumux
12K .ssh
360K Applications
457M Desktop
95M Documents
6.6G Library
15G Movies
4.7G Music
2.5G Pictures
0B Public
36K Sites
du: bs: No such file or directory
du: sheet: No such file or directory
du: Atown.doc: No such file or directory
0B example
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My Apple-worshiping friends recommend this program called AppDelete which is apparently a solution to what I understand to be a not infrequent problem with OS X applications: lazy uninstallers.
And as a not-impartial participant in the Great Unending OS War, I'd just like to take this moment to note that if Mac OS would embrace Red Hat's or Debian's approach to package management, this problem would be completely precluded.
And as a not-impartial participant in the Great Unending OS War, I'd just like to take this moment to note that if Mac OS would embrace Red Hat's or Debian's approach to package management, this problem would be completely precluded.
vibrokatana
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My Apple-worshiping friends recommend this program called AppDelete which is apparently a solution to what I understand to be a not infrequent problem with OS X applications: lazy uninstallers.
And as a not-impartial participant in the Great Unending OS War, I'd just like to take this moment to note that if Mac OS would embrace Red Hat's or Debian's approach to package management, this problem would be completely precluded.
yes, package managers are great but it is a royal pain to make companies conform to a standard. The only real way they could do it is to make a psedu repository where installed applications added in a link to their individual update/install server. The closest thing is gentoo which allows you to make your own ebuilds with links to the sourcefiles, but that system is pretty bloated and needs some redesign.
|CoR|Braveheart
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not seeing what ur referring....
Theres a big list of Apple apps. one is a cleaner.