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There's a lot on that link about Windows. Windows and CCleaner on my PC work fine I'm concerned that CCleaner doesn't work as well on Mac.
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I hope the next update makes it work much better and gets rid of the constant "Helper Tool"
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Marks out of ten for CCleaner on Mac 4 lets hope that improves
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Agree with you. On my M1 does not work properly, also when i delete the Cookies the pop up often is still open and I have to restart the Mac to get ride of it.
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There's a lot on that link about Windows. Windows and CCleaner on my PC work fine I'm concerned that CCleaner doesn't work as well on Mac.
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Hi @Anyone The details in that article about 'Trackers' etc. are not intended as relevant to Mac users, apologies if you though it was part of my reply here.
The link is part of my signature and so turns up automatically below the 'Quote' button in every post that I make, whatever sub-forum I happen to be posting in.
(It will be added automatically to the bottom of this one too).
The linked article itself was written to address questions that are frequently asked by Windows users.
(Although in a general way it does apply to all operating systems the details are written particularly for Windows).
(PS. You can see that DaveCCleaner has a similar signature below the 'Quote' button on all of his posts - his gives links to various CCleaner products, and appears automatically under every post that he makes).
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@KeezyCould you be more specific please? What is it that isn't working for you? Which version of CCleaner for Mac are you using, and which version of the MacOS?
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It work really slow, does not delete all cookies in Chrome, often the automatic cleaning pop up stays on the desktop and I have to restart the Mac.
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<a contenteditable="false" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="<___base_url___>/profile/90281-sam0rai/?do=hovercard" data-mentionid="90281" href="<___base_url___>/profile/90281-sam0rai/" rel="">@sam0rai</a>: We have not announced the upcoming release schedule for CCleaner for Mac 2.x - but broadly speaking it won't be quite as frequent as the ~monthly releases that we do for CCleaner for Windows, but certainly a lot more frequent than we were doing with CCleaner for Mac 1.x. As a broad guide though, we are looking to have CCleaner for Mac 2.3 out at some point within the next few weeks - but aiming for "sooner rather than later" within that timeframe. We may make a free version (without the new paid features) available along with CCleaner for Mac 2.3, or possibly with CCleaner for Mac 2.4 which would be a couple of months after that.
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@Keezy: Therein lies the problem. CCleaner for Mac 1.18.30 was released for compatibility with BigSur, but Monterey came out after that - and older utility software tends not to be compatible with newer operating systems. The CCleaner for Mac 2.x series is compatible with Monterey (and M1 hardware), but is currently only available for paying users, as per the notes above. We will be releasing a free version at some point in the near future (either along with CCleaner for Mac 2.3 or CCleaner for Mac 2.4)
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I'm a paying user, i wrote the assitance more than one week ago but i did not get the version for Monterey.
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An interesting hypothetical. You can try the free version of CCleaner for Mac 2.x in a little while when it is released and form your own conclusions perhaps?
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Well yes - as one might expect, if you are still using the old CCleaner 1.18.30 (which was released back in October 2020 for compatibility with BigSur 11.01) then, as per the notes above, it may well have issues with operating system versions that were released after that such as BigSur 11.1+, and Monterey 12.0+. As with any software, there is no guarantee that older versions will work on newer OSes that were released afterwards.
For compatibility with BigSur 11.1-11.4 you would need CCleaner for Mac 2.0 (released June 2021) or higher.
For compatibility with BigSur 11.5 you would need CCleaner for Mac 2.1 (released August 2021) or higher.
For compatibility with BigSur 11.6+ and Montery 12.0 you would need CCleaner for Mac 2.2 (released November 2021) or higher.
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Well yes - as one might expect, if you are still using the old CCleaner 1.18.30 (which was released back in October 2020 for compatibility with BigSur 11.01) then, as per the notes above, it may well have issues with operating system versions that were released after that such as BigSur 11.1+, and Monterey 12.0+. As with any software, there is no guarantee that older versions will work on newer OSes that were released afterwards.
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I downloaded the Ccleaner for Mac 2.1 but i can not see the option to clean the browser automatically when i close it.
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Hi Dave. I always download the latest updates of everything. I can only see 1.18.30 to download. Hope the next update makes things better
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It looks like any other of the "cleaners' it has similar features. I used it as soon as I installed it where it cleaned the log files. The log files don't appear on a subsequent scan.
Log files are always present but v2-3-136 isn't finding them. V1-18-30 would find them but didn't clean all of them.
I refer to CCleaner for Windows again, it cleans everything out and returns a result of zero files after 2 or 3 "Run Cleaner" actions.
Perhaps Admin will come up with a reason that will seem like an answer! I think this version just tries to assure the user everything has been cleaned and not to worry that it hasn't. V2-13-136 looks pretty and it is designed to break away from the older version but it's mostly cosmetic. Hmm oh well we get what we're given
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Actually the Windows version doesn't do that, - following a clean Windows always puts 'empty' Windows logfiles and temporary files there; waiting for you to start filling them again.
However it may look like they have all gone if you do 2 or 3 consecutive runs, but that's only because Windows pauses recreating the empty logfiles and temporary because something keeps deleting the new ones.
Once you stop repeatedly cleaning/deleting the (already empty) new files with CCleaner, Windows will soon put new empty log-files back again.
See the sections starting with "Windows files that re-appear straight after cleaning" for a longer explanation of how that works and why some files will always come back straight after cleaning on Windows: (and then where it says 'Windows' just substiute 'MacOS')
CC v2-3-136 is only deleting log files on the first pass but not on subsequent passes until the first pass on the day after. I also had to enter my password so no change from v1.18.30
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So CCleaner for Mac is deleting the logs - but only once each day?
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Well!! That was fantastic!! After checking the settings CC deleted my browser. I'm not impressed!! What were you thinking about when writing v2-3-136 code?
So now going back to settings to put them back to default. Would you mind writing the code for a Cleaner of history not the wipeout of essential apps?
It's not going terribly well for CCleaner is it?
Just had to re-install 4 more apps CC deleted!!! What is CCleaner V2-3-136? Is it a JOKE app? It's doing things I don't want. I know how to remove apps and if I needed to I would do it without CCleaner. I need to uninstall CCleaner and try installing it again to reset the defaults