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• Application Uninstall. Simply drop an application onto the window, and HDCleanUp shows you a best-guess of all the application's related files. Files such as the application's preferences files, documents, and more are listed. Move them to the Trash with a click of the mouse.
• Orphaned Preferences Files. Ever download and try out an application only to quickly delete it? Well it most likely left behind one or more preference files. After awhile you can collect a lot of these orphaned preference files. This window not only shows you a best-guess of orphaned preference files, but also of all the applications and their preferences files. This makes it easy to see what you can delete, and what to keep.
• Crash and Log Files. Crash Files: an application crashes. It creates a crash log. The log is sometimes sent to Apple, or the application's developer. Then the crash log remains in your crash log folder. Some crash logs are quite large. This window allows you to selectively remove crash logs. Log Files: many applications create a log file for various reasons. It crashes, and the log file might help the developers show how far the application got. Or it's simply superfluous information, and you don't need it. This window allows you to selectively remove these log files.
• List ZIP Contents. Have a lot of ZIP (compressed) files? Now you can easily find ZIP files and view the contents without extracting any files. Don't need them? Move them to the Trash.
• Duplicate Files. Do you really need 5 copies of your old documents? Probably not. Drop a folder onto the window and HDCleanUp shows you all the duplicate files within the folder.
• Duplicate Applications. You download an application. Months later you download an updated release, however, you forget to delete the older release. When you double-click on the application's document, which application will open? Could be the older, could be the newer. This search helps you find duplicate applications and delete the older duplicate application.
Empty Folders. What good is a folder if it's empty? Now you can track down those useless empty folders.
Empty Files. What good is a file if it's empty? Now you can track down those useless empty files.
Validate Internet Files. Ever drag a file from Safari to your desktop? Eventually you end up with a lot of these Internet files. Even double-click on one only to find the web page no longer exists? This function finds which Internet files point to a valid web page, and which do not.
• Orphaned Aliases. What good is an alias file if it's lost its associated file? Find those orphaned alias files and send them to the Trash (or reattach them).
Cache Files. Cache files are used by applications to speed things up. However, somethings they become corrupted. Best to delete most or all the cache files occasionally.
• ZIP Large Files. Have a lot of larger files on your hard disk? If you don't need them, send them to the Trash. Might need them? Compress them first in ZIP format and then send them to the Trash.
• More functions on the way! Let the developers know what you'd like.
HDCleanUp is descended from a related product called YankPro.
HDCleanUp is $10 for Mac OS X 10.6 and up
For more information, visit:
http://web.me.com/wmodesitt/HDCleanUp/Welcome.html
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