I decided that the job was big enough that I really needed to have some help, so I tried it again. I had bought Gemini II a couple years ago in a MacHeist bundle, and had tried it a little, but found it too slow on a spinny disk to to be useful. Last weekend, I decided it was time to do the cleanup. I had removed my Adobe apps and music apps and data from my work laptop, and at the time I just didn’t have any time to work on those. At the time I was busy and decided I’d work out the rest later. I took a first cut at cleaning it up right away - deleting old stuff I knew I didn’t care about anymore, like partial iPhoto/Aperture/Photos libraries and old iTunes folders - but I was left with a considerable stash of data that I knew contained duplicates.
This was a superfund site of duplicates, junk, and accumulated files. I also pulled in several older backup spinny disks into a folder called “Backups to Clean Up”. I picked up a 2TB Crucial SSD, pulled the old disk, installed the new one, and used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the old internal disk back on to the SSD. It could accept up to 16GB of memory, had a lot of ports (including a DisplayPort, native Ethernet, and FireWire), and had an internal disk that could be swapped to an SSD. The 2012 MBP was the last one that allowed upgrading by the end user.
#Cleanmymac x dropbox pro#
IT and upper management, after a couple of days of general consternation and concern about keylogging, etc., formally told us, “no, we don’t care what you do on your laptop, just don’t do anything illegal,” but by that point I’d scoured off the personal files and data and moved them to iCloud, Dropbox, or a spare 2012 MacBook Pro I had.
(I lost, and later managed to partially recover, all the patches for my Radio Free Krakatau album.)
#Cleanmymac x dropbox plus#
Initially, I was concerned that we might end up being monitored as to what was on our machines, and non-work use might be frowned upon – plus I learned the hard way at WhiteHat that if you’re going to get laid off or fired, no one’s going to give you a day or two to back up anything personal on your machine. Earlier this year, my company, in its push to get things squared away for an IPO at some point (note to the SEC: I know nothing about IPO plans, I am not suggesting anyone invest in anything, I’m just this guy, you know?), installed a remote management tool for MacOS.
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