CleanMyMac X VS SDelete

CleanMyMac X Reviews

SDelete Reviews

CleanMyMac X mentions (23)

• Deleted all files and still not enough to update (2019 MacBook Air)

  A little obvious perhaps….. Have you tried a cleaning tool such as this; https://macpaw.com/cleanmymac. Source: about 1 year ago

• Never owned anything with Mac OS before, having this issue. Talk to me like I’m the biggest idiot in the world as I’ve spent the last 30 years on windows

  CleanMyMac is not anywhere close to the previously mentioned app. We are notarized by our friends at Apple and have been reviewed and available on the Mac App Store with strict rules about the security of all software distributed on the platform. You can learn about our features in more detail here: https://macpaw.com/cleanmymac. Source: over 1 year ago

• Looking for System and File Manager for Windows 11 that has similar functionality to "CleanMyMac X" for MacOS

  Here's a link to CleanMyMac X for reference: https://macpaw.com/cleanmymac. Source: over 1 year ago

• Updating to the new Mac OS

  We run the app CleanMyMac X about once a week on our 3 Macs. They never become slow. This app can also do a lot of other helpful stuff in a safe way. We have used it for several years. https://macpaw.com/cleanmymac. Source: over 1 year ago

• Went from 15 /10 gb to 60/20 GB due to language files and Divinity

  Back in 2008, I used Clean My Mac to keep things tidy and a wonderful feature was to delete extra languages from apps! I see they still do that but as you can imagine, this has jack shit to do with Steam, much less Steam on Linux. Source: over 1 year ago

SDelete mentions (25)

• Keep your files safe. What can happen if you throw away a defective hard drive?

  What lessons can we take away from my story? They are, in fact, quite simple and obvious: merely deleting files and quick formatting is usually not enough when disposing of or selling hard drives. For more assurance, it’s better to perform a full format (in modern operating systems, of course). And for the truly paranoid, there’s the good old console utility SDelete from the Sysinternals suite or a tool named... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Hyper V VM full disk, won’t boot

  I assume you were using a dynamically expanding disk - if so just note it won't dynamically contract just by deleting files. To shrink the drive you will likely need to run sdelete -z on the drive inside the VM to clear the free space, then edit and compact the VHDX. You will need to be able to boot the VM to run sdelete though so you'll need to temporarily move other files off the drive, or move the VM files to... Source: 11 months ago

• Does formatting a drive remove bitlocker encryption from formatted data?

  You can always download sdelete https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete and do an overwrite pass just to be safe. It'll take a while but you can do other things while it's running. Source: 11 months ago

• Bitwarden backups

  My understanding is that it doesn't completely solve it. I don't have time to dig up an authoritative source for this claim — hopefully this superuser comment will suffice. I believe that you can achieve something close to a secure erase by filling up your SSD to 100% capacity with data before deleting; the utility sdelete supposedly does this when using the -c option. Source: about 1 year ago

• Wiping HDD in windows. Which program to use?

  Check out sdelete from the MS sysinternals utilities suite: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete. Source: about 1 year ago