Indeed, the cleanup done by the periodic scripts are not particularly important, although one function they provide is to invoke makewhatis, which allows use of the whatis command. That I appreciate. Since my iMac is in fact a fortress that runs 24/7, as all proper well-adjusted Unix boxen should, this isn’t a problem for me.
I agree that the article is looking a little to one side on matters of app cleanup, although I still don’t disagree with the conclusion; for most people, unless a user has recent to believe that an app is storing significant amounts of app data in a non-user-accessible fashion, it probably doesn’t matter. Having said this, yes, the places to look are in the Library folder; for containerised apps just Library/Containers, which includes all Mac App Store apps. As a rule I simply avoid installing anything I don’t need, and always perform thorough cleanup (using the find utility, for example) if I make the mistake of installing an app I don’t want. There are also free tools like AppCleaner that’ll do this for you. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
