34945 • Mr.Clean Duplicate File Elimination Utility
• sterMachine Finder And System Maintenance Tool

Mr.Clean Duplicate File Elimination Utility

There are several duplicate file elimination utilities for the Mac — one of the best known being Allume Systems' $49.99 Spring Cleaning 7.0 Mac.

And then there's Mr. Clean, which is not nearly as powerful or richly featured as Spring Cleaning, but it's free, and it works quite well for simple purging of duplicates empty folders and orphaned aliases.

MrClean searches for duplicated files comparing (if same):
- Creation and modification dates
- File Types
- File lengths
- File names

Note well: file names comparing is disabled if "Remove duplicates with changed name" is checked; if in douby uncheck it. You also get a much faster scan if it's unchecked.

MrClean searches for empty folders — folders with no visible files. If a folder contains a folder containing a folder, all three will be trashed. After removing duplicates you could have more empty folders. Relaunch scan to remove them.

MrClean searches for all aliases, linked to original file or not.

MrClean does not search inside the System folder.

MrClean is being very actively developed. There have been four version releases since I first downloaded it to check it out last week.

As I noted, it works well. One thing that bugged me about the first version I tried was that there was no way to abort a scan, other than using Force Quit. However, that has been fixed, and now you just hold down the Command key to stop the process.

The program displays a log to inform you what has been done. Here is a log from a test folder I scanned.

Files found in selected folder / volume: 11

Folders found in selected folder / volume: 1

Aliases found in selected folder / volume: 0

Duplicates found in selected folder / volume: 5
iBook HD:Users:charlesmoore:Desktop:temp.1:untitled folder:br temp
iBook HD:Users:charlesmoore:Desktop:temp.1:untitled folder:nn27
iBook HD:Users:charlesmoore:Desktop:temp.1:untitled folder:np27
iBook HD:Users:charlesmoore:Desktop:temp.1:untitled folder:porttemp
iBook HD:Users:charlesmoore:Desktop:temp.1:untitled folder:temp

Empty folders found in selected folder / volume: 0

Aliases found in selected folder / volume: 0

DUPLICATED MOVED TO TRASH
EMPTY FOLDERS MOVED TO TRASH
ALIASES MOVED TO TRASH
Seconds to complete: 1

MrClean is developed by Francesco Vinci, an architect and university teacher of CAD design, and is localized in English or Italian language.

New in this version:
• Better background scan threads
• Fixed a bug, command key was incorrectly stopping scan when MrClean was in background
• User can now maximize MrClean window

New in version 1.0.3:
• Faster single pass duplicates search
• Much faster scan if "Remove duplicates with changed name" is unchecked
• User can stop scan process holding down command key

MrClean is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://arcobaleno2001.interfree.it/index.htm

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sterMachine 2.0.3 Finder And System Maintenance Tool

sterMachine is yet another entry in the increasingly crowded field of do-all (or at least a lot) system and Finder tweak applications. Since I last checked sterMachine out, the application has been completely rewritten with greatly enhanced functionality and a completely new interface.

The sterMachine window has four tabs:

Maintenance

Clean Machine

Finder Tools

Webstuff

sterMachine 2.0 features:
• SaVes your password to the System Keychain
• You can run all CronJobs
• optimize System ( no forced reboot)
• Clean tmp,core,swap files
• Clean System & User cache
• Clean all Logfiles
• View steramchine logfile
• Clean Internet Browser & Cookies, History...
• Finder Tools like hiding unhiding files,Lock files & folders, Securely erase files & folders, gzip files,
• Modifying Finder / Resetting to default
• Modify Dock /reset Dock
• Open any path
• create a hidden folder
• Remove all .trashes
• various Diskimage options
• Simple way of creating a bootable system backup.
• If you have Virex installed you may scan using a quick menu combo.
• Clear recent files & folder (this only will work on English & German Systemversions)
• Enable the Root account / Disable Root
• Enable JournalFilesystem / Disable journaling filesystem
• Limit Safari menu history
• Import Explorer bookmarks
• Search Google, Versiontracker, Apple Developer
• get Ip's
• no installer

When you run System maintenance routines with sterMachine, it displays a log of System and hardware info and tasks performed that can be copied to the ClipBoard or saved to a text file.

= sterMachine 2.0 started =
Friday, September 24, 2004 6:19:42 PM
===== started sterMachine =====
Device Node: /dev/disk0s9
Device Identifier: disk0s9
Mount Point: /
Volume Name: iBook HD

File System: HFS+
Permissions: Enabled
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
Bootable: Is bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: ATA

Total Size: 11.0 GB
Free Space: 2.7 GB

Read Only: No
Ejectable: No

Friday, September 24, 2004 6:26:43 PM
Rebuilding locate database:

Rebuilding whatis database:

Rotating log files: ftp.log lookupd.log lpr.log mail.log netinfo.log ipfw.log
- weekly cron job -
Friday, September 24, 2004 6:26:46 PM
Doing login accounting:
total 550.89
charlesm 144.66
charlesm 117.61
charlesm 88.12
charlesm 68.37
charlesm 59.15
charlesm 25.91
charlesm 22.45
charlesm 20.98
charlesm 2.99
charlesm 0.27
charlesm 0.16
charlesm 0.13
charlesm 0.07
charlesm 0.02

Rotating log files: wtmp install.log - monthly cron job --

Started verify/repair permissions on disk disk0s9 iBook HD
Determining correct file permissions.
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util. New permissions are 33261
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/install.log, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/install.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/install.log
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/wtmp, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/wtmp
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/wtmp
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
Verify/repair finished permissions on disk disk0s9 iBook HDDisk Permissions Log

Friday, September 24, 2004 7:00:11 PM - clean swap file -
Friday, September 24, 2004 7:00:13 PM - clean User cache -
Friday, September 24, 2004 7:00:18 PM - cleaned system cache -

I quite like the sterMachine interface, which is clear, intuitive, and convenient, and the little application works well. One criticism is that there is no progress bar for running processes, which keeps you guessing as to remaining duration.

New in this version:
• G5 Computer compatible
• Login screen feature

System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
BSD subsystem (usually installed by default)

stermachine is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/jaanone/


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Charles W. Moore


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