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A quick and brief review of the free Dr. Cleaner speed up Mac for your Macbook, iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Pro
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Must-Know Tips to Use Dr. Cleaner After being used for years, your iMac/Macbook could be clogged with junks and run slowly. To keep the Mac clean and speed up the computer, many users will use a Mac cleaner software becuase the kind of software can scan out all the stuffs that can be safely removed on the Mac for the users. That could save users lots of trouble, especially for those who know little about tech product. You can find a bunch of software if you google "Mac cleaner". And the software that we introduce today is Dr. Cleaner. It is recommendable because this all-in-one software has all you want about a Mac cleaner: Clean junk files; Scan out big files; Remove duplicate files to free up space; Display information of install applications on your Mac so that you can identify which apps are eating up your space. 聽 Another draw of Dr. Cleaner is its user-friendly interface, which is very neat and straight-forward. And its cute animation adds more fun to the cleaning and optimization. Part 1. How to Use Dr. Cleaner to Clean Up Your Mac When open Dr. Cleaner on your Mac, you'll see the main window with five options: Junk Files, Big Files, Deplicate Files, App Manager, More Tools. I'll explain what do these features do and how to use these features. Junk Files To clean junk files is the first reason why a user want to get a Mac cleaner. Dr. Cleaner can scan out all the junk files that are safe to delete, including application caches, application logs, iTunes temperary files, mail caches, files on trash can, browser cache. To clean junk files: 1. Choose "Junk Files". 2. Click "Scan". 3. After scanning, select files that you don't need. FonePaw Technology Limited 1
4. Click "Remove" on the bottom. Big Files Big files, such as movies, music, could be the culprit for the slow Mac. Dr. Cleaner can help you identify userless big files (that's the files with size larger than 10 MB). After the files are scanned out, you can filter the results based on size, date, name of the files. To avoid mistaken deletion, there is lock feature that allows users to lock important files to white list, which is very thoughtful. 1. Choose "Big Files" > "Scan". 2. Select the files that you don't need. (You can better identify the files with filter buttons). 3. Click "Next". 4. Remove the files to trash or delete permanently. Duplicate Files This feature is聽 to search duplicate files on your Mac. If you don't need multiple copies of聽a file, you can then remove聽extra copies to free up space. What's good about Dr. Cleaner's deduplication feature is that it allows you to preview the files before deleting the copy. Tip: to save time, Dr. Cleaner scan duplicate files that are more than 68 KB in size. 1. Choose "Duplicate Files". 2. Drag folders that you would like to scan to the program. 3. Select the duplicate files to get rid of. You may choose "Auto Select", which automatically save one copy of the file and select the extra copies to delete. Click "Next" > "Remove" to confirm your selection. App Manager This feature can show you how much space each app occupies on your Mac. And if you barely use the apps, you should delete the apps to get more space. Please notice that the program won't show the information of default apps of macOS. Also, you need to upgrade the program to Dr. Clean Pro to delete apps and app data. Otherwise, you can manually uninstall the apps by yourself. FonePaw Technology Limited 2
1. Click "App Manager". 2. Choose "Scan". 3. You'll see all the apps with the information of size, installed date, last opened date. If you're using Dr. Clean Pro, select the apps and click "Next" > "Remove". More Tools This option recommends related apps that Mac or iPhone users might be interested in. Part 2. How to Install/Uninstall Dr. Cleaner These two questions are frequently asked by users about the installation fo Dr. Cleaner. 1. Can I directly install Dr. Cleaner from its official site? No. You can't. You need to get the app from Mac App Store. 2. I can't delete Dr. Cleaner. How can I uninstall the app? To uninstall Dr. Cleaner, firstly quit the app. Then click the Launchpad icon in the Dock, hold down the Dr. Cleaner icon until all the icons begin to jiggle, then click delete button. If you need the app in the future, you can re-install it from App store. Part 3. Is Mac Cleaner Really Safe? Some users are concerned that by using Dr. Cleaner, they might delete important files without noticing it. Well, you shouldn't be worry about that. One of the responsibilites of the cleaning software is to identify the files that are safe to delete. None of the useful files will be included. What's more, when it comes to delete media files, documents, apps, Dr. Cleaner will remind you to confirm your selection or allow you to preview the files before deleting. Therefore, so long as you double check what you are going to delete, the files that you need will be safe and sound on your Mac. FonePaw Technology Limited 3
If you need to free up space on Mac, get Dr. Cleaner to have a try. The app is free to use. You're welcome to share your opinion about the app below. FonePaw Technology Limited 4