Angie Stone

Geez, I don't even know what 7 passes means, but I selected it because "Zero Out" sounded so harsh. Seriously. I lost my bravery back in my PC years, and now I trust almost nothing. Anyway, it did finish eventually, and all seems well. I forgot to take a screen shot prior to running the Erase, so I don't know how much space I gained, but it had been getting wonky, so I thought I should do some maintenance. Thank you so much for your help.

Man is it ever hard to find info for the MAC version of CCleaner. There are no instructions anywhere, whatsoever for MAC. I've found plenty of forum discussions, but they're all for Windows, the big tip-off being discussions regarding the registry cleaner. That ain't MAC. I'm running version 1.03.131. Main, first, most important question: What will happen if I cancel the "Erase Freespace" operation? After doing a full backup, I ran "Erase Free Space". I started it at 8:00 am. It's now 2:30 pm. If it takes several hours, I'm cool with that, but I'm nervous that I could be sitting here idle while it's erasing stuff it shouldn't. I also want to know if I can use my laptop (Macbook OSX 10.6.8) while the program is running. Probably would slow it down considerably, huh? I just found out there's a later version of CCleaner for Mac, and would just as soon cancel this erase operation, and get the newer version. That is, if cancelling it will still leave me with an operating system. I sure hope I haven't gotten myself in trouble. Thank you. erase.tiff

Thank you. I'll run a backup beforehand, but that "minimal" word makes me feel better.

What's my risk in running CCleaner on my Macbook Pro, if I have absolutely no idea what it's deleting? I'm running OS10.6.8