The new and much improved CleanMyDrive 2 app boasts a completely redesigned user interface that lets you check disk stats, drag-and-drop files directly to any drive, automatically clean disks after hitting the Eject button and more. With it, cleaning hidden junk that’s been clogging up your drives is easy and fun. The lightweight app sits in the Mac menu’s bar, ready to be used at a moment’s notice. Just click the icon to get started, and then select your volume for detailed information on space usage. It’s a pretty capable app for cleaning hidden junk from external disks, especially if you want to get rid of those pesky resource forks and other service files that OS X and Windows creates when storing files on external volumes. Perhaps you didn’t know it, but these files can affect drive compatibility with devices like digital cameras. For instance, a digital camera might exhibit sluggish performance if the SD card has hidden system files stored on it. And on devices such as smart TVS and car audio systems these files are displayed in folders alongside your music, photos and videos, basically spamming your view with junk. On top of all that, OS X’s service files are displayed on other platforms like Windows and Linux-again, cluttering your view and potentially confusing others. Not only does cleaning hidden resource files free up space, but also prevent problems with a drive after using it on other operating systems.Īs a result, you get a safer, better user experience and get to enjoy improved compatibility of your external drive with other computing platforms.ĬleanMyDrive 2 can remove the following items from your drives that are otherwise hard to delete: OS X service files (.DS_Store. Fseventsd), Windows service files (Thumbs.db, RECYCLED, RECYCLER and $RECYCLE.BIN), resource forks (files like.
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