Y-Guy
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One of the few programs I really miss from my Windows days was CCleaner; it's still an program I install on all office Windows computers to keep things cleaned out as users reboot their computers has finally been developed for the Mac.
CCleaner for Mac v1.01
Our RV: '07 Winnebago Sightseer 35J
Our Toys: Four Winns Horizon 190, Polaris Sportsman 500's & Honda Recon's
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pulsar
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Please give us a follow-up after you have used it for awhile.
Tom
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Will do Tom, ran it last night and all is well this morning with browsers and various apps. Similar interface to the Windows version, though less options since there are less items that need to be tweaked (i.e. no registry).
CCleaner was always about cleaning out the internet cache and cookies as well as app left overs. CCleaner for the Mac, just like Windows, allows you to selectively keep good cookies from sites you visit (like RV.net) and purge the advertising ones.
I don't see an option run at start-up, but the Mac can do that on it's own. The down side is that I rarely reboot or shut down my mac so it wouldn't run anyway.
I'll leave the system maintenance to the Mac itself or long time trusted programs like Onyx, but for the quick purging of internet garbage so far I'm happy. Time is the best test, we'll see after a month.
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Y-Guy wrote:CCleaner for the Mac, just like Windows, allows you to selectively keep good cookies from sites you visit (like RV.net) and purge the advertising ones.
If using Safari you can also do that from the "privacy" tab in preferences.
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Deetour
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ljr wrote:If using Safari you can also do that from the "privacy" tab in preferences. X2
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pulsar
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Deetour wrote:ljr wrote:If using Safari you can also do that from the "privacy" tab in preferences. X2
Deetour and ljr,
I'm willing to learn. On the privacy tab of Safari's preference window, one can click on Remove All Website Data. I like to erase cookies daily, but that option one work for me because there are 10 or so cookies i want to keep. OK, one clicks on the Details button which provides a list of all cookies. The options are, click on Remove All or manually select the ones you want to delete and click on Remove.
As stated, the first one won't work for me and the other is too cumbersome. I will have several hundred cookies to delete. Finding the ones I want to keep and deleting the others is not something I relish doing.
The PC version of CCleaner, and if I understood Y-Guy correctly, allows you to one time select the ones you wan to keep. Then, whenever you tell it to delete cookies, it deletes them all except the ones you marked to keep.
Does Safari have such a feature?
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Tom
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pulsar wrote:Deetour wrote:ljr wrote:If using Safari you can also do that from the "privacy" tab in preferences. X2
Deetour and ljr,
I'm willing to learn. On the privacy tab of Safari's preference window, one can click on Remove All Website Data. I like to erase cookies daily, but that option one work for me because there are 10 or so cookies i want to keep. OK, one clicks on the Details button which provides a list of all cookies. The options are, click on Remove All or manually select the ones you want to delete and click on Remove.
As stated, the first one won't work for me and the other is too cumbersome. I will have several hundred cookies to delete. Finding the ones I want to keep and deleting the others is not something I relish doing.
The PC version of CCleaner, and if I understood Y-Guy correctly, allows you to one time select the ones you wan to keep. Then, whenever you tell it to delete cookies, it deletes them all except the ones you marked to keep.
Does Safari have such a feature?
Thanks,
Tom
That does sound useful. You could probably do something like that with automator but unless you're looking for a project or that product is really expensive, I'd say keep doing what you are doing.
I just delete all of them every once in awhile.
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pulsar
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ljr wrote:
That does sound useful. You could probably do something like that with automator but unless you're looking for a project or that product is really expensive, I'd say keep doing what you are doing.
I just delete all of them every once in awhile.
CCleaner is free.
Tom
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Tom, you are right that same option to mark cookies to be protected during the purge is an available on CCleaner for the Mac and one of my favorite features.
I prefer to use this type of system rather then dealing with various cookie blockers and others. I tried another cookie blocker that had similar feature, but it was very time consuming to setup.
The feature in Safari is nice but wipes all cookies; good and bad. The other plus to how CCleaner implements it is that it covers all browsers you may use; Safari, Firefox, Opera & Chrome as well as ones like SeaMonkey & Camino.
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