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Cleaning Up Mac OS X

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Mar 15, 202614687 views
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Besides doing a fresh install, does anyone have any tips for uncluttering Mac OS X? I install and uninstall a fair few apps and find that after a while things start to chug. I was hoping there might be an easy way to clean orphan files floating around the place and get things feeling snappy again.

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Go to and sort by modification date. Anything unused in the last X weeks/months can go. Simply start any application once you install. Keep the files around another month in case you start an application and have an unexpected first-launch experienc…

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