Beaminster — Dec 6th 2016
The first app was Enpass, which provides a secure place for passwords, bank account and credit card details, driving license and passport detail and other travel items and log-in passwords, and anything else that you may wish to secure. The main thing to be certain of when using this app (and indeed any other similar app) is NOT to forget or lose a note of the master password, without which you are sunk!
Next was Memory Clean, which returns memory that has been appropriated by an app but not released when you quit the app. This happens less often in later Mac operating systems, e.g. Yosemite, El Capitan and Sierra, but is still useful and very simple to use. You canst a threshold so that if available free memory falls too far, the app leaps into action automatically.
Then came a web-site - which was not easy to show as there seemed to be problem with the internet connection. This is Transfer Big Files, from the transferbigfiles.com web site. You can send, free of charge, file sup to 30 MB in size, and if you pay you can send them up to a whopping 20GB. There are various price plans for the three chargeable variations, which keep files permanently available for download by people you designate, while the free version only holds them for 5 days. Both versions send a notification when the file has been downloaded by the recipient(s).
The fourth app was Duplicate Manager, another free one, which does as it says, and shows duplicates of files for you to decide if you wish to delete them. Again this can be done to a schedule that you can set.
Another memory cleaner was nest, Dr Cleaner which in addition to carrying out the same memory release function as Memory Cleaner also identifies junk files which you can then delete.
Michael then moved on to two paid apps which he personally found really useful. The first was Speedy, from www.sites.fastspring.com/apimac/product/speedystore. This little app stays on the menu bar and the drop-down menu gives lists of recently opened files, folders, apps and web sites, with the added ability to select favourites which then reside at the head of each list. It also allows adding work flows, to carry out actions that you can specify – useful if you have a job that involves a lot of repetition. As well as that you can create key combinations so that using two or three keys will take you, for example, to a specific file or folder. And finally it enhances the Mac Clipboard, storing multiple entries in either plain or rich text format, or images or links that could be email addresses or web site addresses (URLs). All that for just under £4.50.
The other paid app was AppZapper. Many apps install more than just the application itself, putting files in different locations. AppZapper seeks out these other files when you drag an application you wish to delete from your Mac into a small window, and the whole lot can then be consigned to the Trash with one click. More expensive at £10.50 but again, well worthwhile.
Finally Euan took over to give a quick trot through the very powerful general purpose cleaning app, Onyx, which comes in versions specific to each version of Mac OS’s/ This does a lot, but the instruction must be read carefully! And as Euan pointed out, some of the operations have been superseded in later OS’s, and many can be carried out by starting your Mac with a Safe Boot — simply hold down the Shift key on startup and sit back. To leave Safe Boot mode, just restart your Mac normally.
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