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Turbo fans on Intel macs are not normal in my years of experience using various gen of Intel based MBPs. There might be some services which are not necessary but getting launched at startup & causing high CPU usage. Disabling them might help.
https://cleanmymac.com/faq/stop-apps-opening-startup
Also, I use a pro version of "CleanMyMac X" on my Intel MBP, helps me with regular cleanups of temp files and unnecessary services and keep things lite.
Also, when fans are running fast, open up "Activity Monitor" and see which app or service is causing that.
I would stay away from CleanMyMac X as well. It used to be a decent app-uninstaller, but has accumulated a bunch of snake oil features in more recent years. RAM cleaning being one of the more obvious ones.
The site (https://cleanmymac.com) also makes some rather outlandish claims like "5X More free disk space", "2.5X Speedier apps launching" and "4.5X Faster boot time".
They also highlight "Notarized by Apple" as some kind of feature, even though this is mandatory for non-App Store apps, to avoid Gatekeeper warnings - see this for details.
Any actually useful feature in CleanMyMac X has one or more alternatives, many of them free and made by more trustworthy developers.
I very much agree with mightydanbearpigs recommendations.
If the macs OP is dealing with are full of junk, it might be save time, to just do a clean install, rather than trying to fix things.
Unless people install a bunch of "cleaner" or "optimizer" apps, there should be very little need to do any cleaning, as macs (unlike some PCs) don't come bundled with a bunch of questionable 3rd party software.
You could try to use Spotlight (Cmd-F) to search for the file.
Another option is to use a one of the apps from here instead. My personal pick is OmniDiskSweeper. It sorts folders by size and lets you drill down into them to find the big sub-folders or files.
Note that OmniDiskSweeper has three aspects worth noting:
- It shows the actual file system structure, which is a bit different from what you see in Finder.
- It only scans the file system so it will not find APFS snapshots. The latter are created by some backup tools like Time Machine.
- There are some (usually fairly small) OS folders that will not be scanned, unless you jump through some Terminal hoops and launch OmniDiskSweeper using
sudo. This is because the regular admin user, lacks access to these folders.
I would personally stay away from CleanMyMac X, as I don't trust the current version of the product or company. The app does come with some legit features but many of them are either snake oil or mostly useless.
They also make some rather outlandish claims on their home page https://cleanmymac.com like "5X More free disk space", "2.5X Speedier apps launching" and "4.5X Faster boot time".
They also highlight "Notarized by Apple" as a feature, even though this is essentially mandatory, to avoid Gatekeeper warnings - see this for details.
It just did not do enough for me, although was a big fan for years. I then went with CleanMyMac X and for a more lightweight solution I now am trying out App Cleaner and Uninstaller. I figured these are better because I had a problem with Viber and needed a full uninstall to fix it, app cleaner did not find all files to delete my account authentication on viber which caused the error bugging me for days and that is why I replaced it. I also heard Hazel can also do the job just not as easy of an interface to use.
Hm, then I am not sure... Hopefully someone else will chime in with the solution. In the meantime I would check programs like https://cleanmymac.com, maybe it will be able to show you what is that about.
How exactly is it a different issue? I am not able to send, or receive, SMS messages on my Mac using the Messages app. Is that not the problem you have?
I will say that sometimes the problem only is with sending something with media like an image or video, but simple text still works. It isn't consistent.
Anyway, what I recommended also does't always work some of the time, or at least not at first. But the past few times its happened it seems to have worked and i wasnt forced to try other methods.
One other trick that worked the one time I tried it was to just zap Messages data entirely so that it would open up as if on a brand new account being used for the first time. Since Apple now enjoys hiding everything in multiple cryptic folders buried in places like ~/Library/Containers and so forth, it isnt easy to try and find them all manually, so I have an app for that. I use CleanMyMac X, and i am pretty sure you can use it in trial mode without restrictions for a period of time. Anyway, it has an "Uninstaller" section that lists every installed app, and you can either uninstall them completely, or expand them to see the various component folders it uses and just purge those while leaving the app binary alone. So I just wipe everything Messages related and it fires right back up. If you are dealing with a built-in macOS app like Messages, it wont appear in this list at all unless you go to Preferences for the Uninstaller function and un-check a "Hide System Apps" option first, and even then, it wont actually let you remove any of the apps themselves, but for sure you can wipe out the data. I see no particular downside to this since I have Messages in iCloud and it will simply re-sync all my previous messages including media and dates sent, read receipts, all of it.
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Aftter I click the link it would open app store and I could see mojave download page.
You could try do maintanence with this aoo.
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Install clean my mac.
Clean cache and history in chrome then uninstall it using clean my mac.
Install latest chrome.
If it stil slow you could do maintenence using clean my mac.
You can try Cleanmymac x, for clearing out all the launch agents. As for the safari Problem, you can try clearing out the cache in developer settings in Safari.
Clean My Mac is pretty legit; been using it for years and while you can write your own scripts to do everything it does, it’s nice to have something that keeps itself up to date with macOS versions and keeps things tidy. The developers seem to be pretty awesome too.
Have you looked into installing the CleanMyMac app?
I would use it as a last resort if you cannot find anything to cleanup.
Besides that, what kind of applications are you using? (e.g do you use development tools, games, productivity apps, music software, etc.?)
Depending on the type of work you do those applications will use up your disk space.
CleanMyMac started out as an app uninstaller, which it supposedly is decent at. It should be noted that this is a fairly easy process to do manually, if one spends a little time learning about where apps put stuff.
Most of it's other features range from antivirus that seems to garner "needs work" reviews to snake oil features like "memory cleaners".
The cache cleaning features are mostly pointless as caches get regenerated, so this would only be useful to clear out chaches from removed apps.
The https://cleanmymac.com/ page mentions detection of large files. This is generally not that helpful as it can often be folders containing lots of small files that are taking up space. I personally like OmniDiskSweeper to visualize disk usage[1]. There are lots of other free/paid apps to visualize disk usage, you can find links to some of them here.
The feature to run various maintenance scripts and disable apps is probably best avoided. The maintenance scripts are run by macOS automatically, so should not need to be run manually to begin with. Messing with background apps/processes is only likely to break stuff unless you know what your doing - in which case you probably wouldn't be running CleanMyMac to begin with.
1: it will miss some things like TimeMachine/APFS snapshots and some (usually small) system files that it doesn't have read access to (run it using sudo in Terminal to handle the latter issue).
CleanMyMac X will do what you're looking for.
There's a paid version and a free version. The latter isn't as thorough, obviously, than the paid version but will free up the 'other' space.
I had the same issue and after it seems like a year I finally got rid of it. It was annoying because every time I opened Safari, it would redirect to Bing.
First, I downloaded the free download on https://cleanmymac.com. I ran the virus scan and then it shows all the files that are infected with virus and malware. I went through each of them by clicking on them and you can choose the option that says "go to folder" so it takes you right to the infected folder and I deleted it. There were a lot files so I did it for each one. Once that was complete, I emptied the Trash folder and restarted the computer. Problem was solved for me.
I didn't have to pay for anything on there either. I just used the free version. After I was done, I deleted the cleanmymac app.
It certainly claims to include a large number of such features:
> "Remove malware from Mac > > It stops macOS-specific viruses > > CleanMyMac X officially holds a “Gold” level of Mac virus detection. We give you a real-time shield against trojans, data miners, and recent browser hijackers."
The quote is directly from the https://cleanmymac.com/ home page, with some of the antivirus features highlighted in bold.
While CleanMyMac started out as uninstall app, it seems to slowly have morphed into a general "keep your mac healthy" app. I get the impression that they've added more dubious features and claims over time, slowly starting it on a trajectory towards MacKeeper (that also claims a similar feature set).
The official CleanMyMac front page doesn't impress me:
- The Clean up your Mac section seems reasonable.
- The Speed up your Mac section starts descending into memory cleaner snake oil - "free up its RAM memory in a click".
- The Remove malware from Mac section mentions "CleanMyMac X officially holds a “Gold” level of Mac virus detection." - I have no idea what "Gold" level virus detection is supposed to be. A few google searches didn't turn up anything and the site has no references to what this is supposed to mean. I guess it's just there to make it sound better, without making any actual claims.
- The Manage apps and extensions section seems reasonable.
- The See how a new Mac feels section quotes some outrageously ridiculous numbers: "5x more free disk space", "2.5x speedier apps launching" and "4.5x faster boot time". I assume that CleanMyMac does a decent job at getting rid of old junk files and uninstalling apps. I highly doubt that boot time or app launch times will differ noticeable (+/- a few %) for most users. Testing is supposed to have been done on a "Testing conducted using MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) with 512 GB of storage." which doesn't really tell me anything useful about what kind of crap they put on the mac to get these numbers.
I also noticed that the top of the page highlights that CleanMyMac is "Notarized by Apple", this is effectively mandatory for non-App Store apps (if you want to avoid the "app is from a unknown developer" issues that unsigned apps have).
I guess this is included as a "stamp of approval from Apple", even though it's no such thing.
CleanMyMac seems legit, although you may be confusing it with similar sounding software like MacCleaner or MacKeeper. Funnily enough, MacCleaner's website is almost an identical clone of CleanMyMac's, down to design/color, even graphics, so its easy to confuse one for the other.
Dammit, everything looks fine.
Looks like a complete reinstall of Logic - and if that doesn't work it's going to be a full reset for your machine, clean install of Mojave followed by Logic.
So, to remove everything. First the easy way - download a trial of CleanMyMac (from cleanmymac.com) - the free trial allows one complete uninstall so that should move everything.
Either do that then check these folders to ensure that everything has gone, or go straight to these folders and delete them. When I say HDD I'm referring to your main drive, often called Macintosh HD but you may have renamed it during setup of your iMac.
HDD > Applications > Logic
HDD > Library > Application Support > Logic
HDD > Library > Audio > Apple Loops > Apple
HDD > Library > Audio > Impulse Responses > Apple
Next we're going to reset your SMC and PRAM.
Shut down your machine completely, unplug the power cord and wait for one minute (actual wait time is minimum 15 seconds so a minute makes sure that it's long enough). Plug the power cord back in, wait another 10 seconds and press the power button.
When your iMac has finished booting, completely shut it down again.
Press the power button to start again and this time hold down:
command+option+p+r
until you hear the startup sound, then let go of the keys and leave your iMac to boot normally.
Now go to the app store and install Logic.
Restart your iMac one more time.
Record some guitar!
If it STILL doesn't work after that then something must have went astray restoring from your TimeMachine backup and you're going to have to start completely fresh.