It’s possible that my SSD wasn’t deleting, renaming, moving, cleaning the files as I asked them to do. After a while you start to hate it with a passion. Or like the car Christine, in the movie of the same name. It was, frankly, astonishing, like blowing up a Russian tank and turning around to see it like new from the factory, many times, over the course of 2 days. But I have never seen an app so thoroughly destroyed, to come back after every reboot like nothing had happened. Like I say it’s possible that the SSD ( a no name EBay purchase) may have been the issue. I get about 16Mbps download, so not too slow. Soon after that the spinning pizza of slowness started appearing for the slightest of tasks like opening the App Store (hardly intensive). It ran fine like that then for some reason I installed CleanMyMac X. Soon after I replaced the HDD with an SSD. I got it like this and added a few programs, mostly music production stuff like sequencers and DAWs. Each one has the disk wiped clean and a new install of the latest OS for the machine, in this case hi Sierra. I bought this machine recently from someone who obtains ex-office Macs in bulk. Thanks for the tipĬlick to expand.I agree with you that it’s possible something else is going on. I’ll get app cleaner, next to me I run into trouble. And it’s running well now, albeit at HDD speeds. I have since reinstalled the original factory HHD from 2010 (this is not my main computer). Although it was painful yesterday, it always rebooted. This is day 2 of my efforts to remove Clean M M. But the nail in the coffin was when the Mac just died in the middle of me putting files in the trash. Maybe CleanMyMac is not to blame, if the SSD was failing first. Hard to say exactly when it happened or what caused it. I could not erase/format the SSD externally on my Pro. And that was the main issue at that point, getting any app to run, even system apps, without the machine freezing was becoming a real headache so trying to download something new wasn’t working well.īTW. Could have used that information before I downloaded 128Mb onto a very flakey computer. It downloaded and then told me it didn’t work on my OS. Seriously, if you know what is good for you, do not download this virus. Which is good in a way, because now I don’t have to stress about nuking it back to zero. This really is WORSE that any malware I’ve ever come across. Removing all the files, deleting the contents, renaming the files and folders and throwing them Finding all the associated files in all the folders in the library and deleting them doesn’t work, strike five. Using its own uninstall feature doesn’t work, strike four. I’m now looking at reformatting the disk and loading OS from scratch. BTW I’m sitting in front of a forever reboot screen right now (the second one) since my machine crashed while I was dissecting this cr#p. So if you select it in finder- applications and put it in the trash. Firstly it’s not a safe App Store download ( that’s for sure) so you can’t just hold down the button in launcher and hit x when everything starts to jiggle. Let’s count the ways I’ve tried to remove it. It’s like that liquid metal Android in the Terminator films no matter how badly I destroy it, it ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS manages to put itself back together and appear again on every start up like a bad penny, only this penny is covered in feces on one side and toxic waste on the other. But trying to remove it is proving 100% impossible. I can’t prove that this programme (I’m being VERY polite here as I can’t type what I really want to call it) caused any of the problems. Since I installed it I’ve had nothing but trouble and the spinning pizza of slowness appears everywhere (SSD, 32Mb RAM i5 iMac, High Sierra). DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT Let CleanMyMac ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR
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