ajkblue / clean-my-mac

A simple shell script to clean and speed up your Mac

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Clean My Mac

macOS can become slow after being used for long time (e.g. 1 year). Deep clean right now is not possible without paid software.

Most Mac cleaner apps don't really boost the performance as much as advertised. I have tried all sorts of existing apps inside and outside the App Store - the result wasn't promising.

So I come up with an idea of writing a shell script to do this.

I've tried this on 3 of my Mac computers, 2 MacBook Air machines and a iMac, all running Mac OS X 10.10.4. The results were fantastic, I saved ~4.5 GB on both of the MacBook Air machines and ~7GB on my 2010 iMac, and it also sped up the system dramatically. I've also used this in speeding/cleaning up my family's older Macs, and it works quite well.

Known Bugs

Notification Center layout and settings may be reset.

May cause macOS Lock Screen and Desktop wallpapers not to match.

Script Usage

Download the script, execute, then enter your password when prompted:

sh clean_my_mac.sh

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A simple shell script to clean and speed up your Mac


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