If you like tweaking this and that and you want absolutely personalized experience with you Mac, OnyX has a great deal to offer you. It is a great tool for troubleshooting and customization. However, all agree that OnyX’s usefulness is not limited to cleaning and maintenance. Experienced users, however, say this claim is debatable at the very least. Some users argue that Macs clean themselves and do not need to download any maintenance apps since the advent of OS X that takes care of itself. Anyway, it never hurts to double-check before hitting “Execute”. If you are using it right, OnyX will not delete anything you may need. This app is your little helper, it runs in the background and silently restores the way things should be.Ĭlearing Core files, Temporary files, Recent files caches, and other things OnyX may offer you to delete may be either useless or partially useful – mainly if you are experiencing disk space shortage or trying to protect your privacy – but that’s about it.

As you may already know, they sometimes became too large or corrupted thus slowing down your Mac and causing annoying problems (such as SPOD).

However, this feature is supposed to delete only caches and log files. However, we also heard those horror stories about crucial system files and entire media libraries being “cleaned” away. We all want our system to be zippy and our disks to have plenty of space. For many users, this is a sought for and at the same time dreaded thing. I shall start this OnyX Mac review with the most popular feature for most users, i.e. Let’s look closer into OnyX’s rich functionality together with pros and cons of using it.

In fact, it is a versatile set of utilities to clear caches, clean hard drive, repair permissions and preference files (if they are corrupted), and do many other things that you may (or may not) want to do. OnyX app is a popular freeware for Mac maintenance and optimization.

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