![]() More: Years ago, I tried to follow app installations with fseventer to see precisely what was happening, but it was beyond me. It's just aggravating even though they are supposedly not looking at my stuff. I also don't like that Apple seems to think everyone uses Facebook and has put a ton of files in the computer that I can't delete. I used to have a lot of fun changing my icons for Safari, Finder, etc. I don't like the trend of losing control either. I have an SSD and not a ton of memory (121 flash storage) but probably more than I need. I've heard some of the reasons, but generally I'm against this trend. With every OS, control has been taken away from the user. Even some empty folders are required by the system and cannot be deleted. I bought Tidy Up, which is mainly for deleting duplicates, but in that program I am much more reluctant to delete files, and many of the files it finds cannot be deleted. At least on the Mac, the process is more obvious. ![]() Additional manual removal is always required. I've never seen a program on Windows or Mac that deletes all the files related to a program that should be deleted. I use AppCleaner to uninstall programs because I have to use something, and it's free. I use Monolingual because it deletes some but not all foreign language files. Hard drives are so much bigger now, so the need to delete garbage files is less. And I always have my hard drive cloned with Super Duper so I can restore the system. I have rendered my Mac unbootable due to deleting files I shouldn't have. (I've got FAF configured to delete system files automatically, so I"ve got to be alert about what I"m doing.) Yeah, FAF is more complicated than EF, but once it's figured and configured, the speed boost is, in my estimation, well worth the effort. I was happy with EF until I realized that it was all of a sudden taking interminably long to complete searches, so I tried FAF on a lark, found that an EF search that took more than a minute to complete took only about 10 seconds for FAF to complete, and I"ve never looked back. From now on I will always check though thanks to you.įind all Files looks kind of complicated, so I don't think I will be using it anyway.ĮasyFind, by developer's intent, makes it difficult to delete stuff that requires authentication, so anything you've ever deleted DIRECTLY from an EF interface has been "kosher" to delete. But thankfully it didn't delete any system files, so maybe it's intuitive regarding that kind of thing. Right, but you said not to get rid of any thing "system related." I had never checked when I deleted stuff via EasyFind because I didn't know any better. Neither FAF nor EF makes any decisions about what to delete or retain all they do is tell you what's there, and whether to delete or retain is your decision, and since you've always (I think) been fastidious about "looking before you leap," I don't think either app presents any danger for you. The only thing that "gets rid of it shouldn't" is a USER! I don't always know what is safe to delete and what isn't, and I always trusted the apps to make the right decision. I am considering using Find any File.I am just concerned that it might get rid of something it shouldn't.
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