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Mac maintenance
12 posts in this category.
4 November 2026 · 4 min read
Your first ten minutes with SweepyMac
Install, one permission, a three-day trial and a first scan. What happens at each step, what to say yes to, what you can safely skip, and how to read the screen that comes back before you press Clean.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
4 November 2026 · 5 min read
Reclaiming disk from the caches and build folders your tools rebuild on their own
Xcode DerivedData, package manager caches, node_modules in a project you have not opened in a month. How Stackyard measures what a developer's Mac can safely give back, why everything goes to the Trash, and what it never touches.
- Stackyard
- Developer tools
- Mac maintenance
4 November 2026 · 4 min read
A monthly Mac routine in fifteen minutes, from the keyboard
Eleven modules is a lot to remember. This is the order we use them in once a month, with the shortcut for each: scan, check health, look for threats, find the big files, hand space back to iCloud, and only then empty the Trash.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
1 November 2026 · 4 min read
What a Mac cleaner should never do
Most cleaning apps ask you to trust them. SweepyMac is built so you do not have to: everything it removes goes to the Trash, every clean has an Undo, and every group opens up before you press anything.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
- Behind the apps
29 October 2026 · 4 min read
Smart Scan or Cleanup? What one click cleans, and what it deliberately leaves alone
SweepyMac has a one-click scan and a full Cleanup module, and they are not the same thing. Here is exactly what each one touches, which categories start unticked and why, and the folders neither will ever offer you.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
26 October 2026 · 4 min read
The Mac Health score, explained: every number, every threshold
SweepyMac sums up your Mac as one score out of 100. This is what goes into it, exactly when each recommendation fires, and why a check that cannot read its data is skipped rather than marked fine.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
- macOS
24 October 2026 · 3 min read
Getting disk space back from iCloud Drive without deleting a single file
Files you downloaded from iCloud Drive keep a local copy on your Mac. Evicting that copy frees the space, keeps the file in iCloud, and leaves it one click from coming back. Here is how it works and when it is worth doing.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
- macOS
13 October 2026 · 3 min read
Uninstalling a Mac app completely: the eleven places it leaves things behind
Dragging an app to the Trash removes the app and nothing else. Its preferences, caches, containers and launch agents stay. Here is where they live, how SweepyMac finds them, and why some apps need a password to remove.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
- macOS
8 October 2026 · 3 min read
What starts when you log in, and the three chores you used to need Terminal for
SweepyMac's Performance module lists your login items with a Disable button, shows the system agents macOS manages, and runs three maintenance tasks with one click. How the background helper makes that silent, and why it needs a signed build.
- SweepyMac
- macOS
- Mac maintenance
3 October 2026 · 3 min read
Space Lens and Disk: two ways to look at a full Mac
One draws your folders as bubbles you can click into and remove from. The other draws the whole volume to scale and touches nothing. Why SweepyMac has both, what each protects, and how to use them together when the disk is nearly full.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
1 October 2026 · 4 min read
Finding duplicate files on a Mac: what counts, what does not, and what to keep
A duplicate finder is only useful if it never mistakes two different files for the same one. How SweepyMac decides two files are identical, why it keeps the oldest copy, and the two cases where deleting a duplicate frees no space at all.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
28 September 2026 · 3 min read
Finding the large, old files that are actually taking the room
A folder, a size floor from 10 MB to 2 GB, and an age filter. What SweepyMac's Large & Old scanner includes, the four kinds of thing it deliberately skips, and why a hard link is listed as freeing nothing.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance