Cleaning up .bom Files

Is there any app that will clean up .bom files after you have deleted any app from the system. It seems that alot of crap is left in the folder that they reside.

In the future, you can use "AppCleaner" to uninstall applications and all their attendant bits and pieces.
"CleanMyMac" is a paid app, but has an automated routine for cleaning up after uninstalls and many other "cleaning" routines for the mac.

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Why does the new operating system not delete the moved files from their original locations - it seems like an enormous waste of space, time and effort to clean up every file once you've moved it - also, when transferring large amounts of files it becomes a very large problem remembering which files were transferred and which not.

You're going to need to be more specific, as I'm not quite sure I understand what you're talking about.
If you're referring to copying from an external hard drive or flash drive, and you want to actually move files rather than copy them, you can hold down the option key to force it to do a "move" rather than a "copy." This is not new behavior, though... the Mac OS has worked this way as long as I can recall (and I've been using it since 1984).
If you're having a problem with trying to move files from one place to another on a single drive causing them to be copied instead, that is likely because of some permissions issue preventing you from actually being able to move them.

Cleaning virus-infected files on external hard drive used for Time Machine

I am kinda reposting this with some extra explanation since I didn't really get any good respnses on my first post:
I am running McAfee VirusScan and it locates and cleans virus infected files just fine on my computer, but when it finds infected files on the external hard drive I use for Time Machine backups, it says "Repair Failed". Is there a way to clean infected files on my Time Machine backup drive?
I had found a virus in several documents on my Mac, which I cleaned, but it seemed to infect a bunch of the files located in Time Machine as well. I know these files shouldn't harm my Mac, but I still don't like having virus infected files. They seem to propagate and I don't want to give them to any of my Windows-using friends.

Hi,
Usually (but not always), virus-infected files aren't system-related, so if they cannot be repaired, there should be an option in VirusScan to delete them or quarantine them instead of repairing them. Assuming that you are archiving Mac-related files and not archives of Windows files, then it should certainly be safe to just have VirusScan delete or quarantine them. An alternative is that you could delete them manually. But before you do any of this, be sure to take a look at the filename and its location in the folder hierarchy to make sure that you aren't removing a file that's critical to the operation of some piece of software.
Hope this helps,
Ken

How to clean the junk files in iPhone 5S

How to clean the junk files in iPhone 5S

Howdy sdshiras,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Take a look at the article linked below, it provides a lot of great information that you can use to identify content which is taking up storage space on your iPhone 5s.
See how much storage you've used on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
Cheers,
-Jason

How can I clean virus infected files on my Time Machine disk?

I am running McAfee VirusScan and it locates and cleans virus infected files just fine on my computer, but when it finds infected files on my Time Machine backup drive it says "Repair Failed". Is there a way to clean infected files on my Time Machine backup drive?
Related question: Is this because the actual files are saved in a central hidden location and the files I see when I open the backup disk with finder are actually just alias links?

Schmactor,
First, it is unlikely that your software is actually finding a virus of any kind. Many supposed reports of a virus will, in fact, be perfectly legitimate (and harmless) files. While it is possible that you'll receive a virus, it is still unlikely. Most ISPs run anti-virus software on their email servers; if a virus is sent to you in an email, it is usually removed before you download it.
Even if you have downloaded an email, it is even less likely that you're going to send it to a Windows-using friend. Since any Windows virus is going to do absolutely nothing on your Mac, you most likely will just delete it. Are you in the habit of forwarding random emails that have unidentifiable attachments to your friends?
Keep in mind that it is always in the best interest of the developers of anti-virus software titles that the software constantly "finds" things, even when nothing exists. If you were to purchase anti-virus software, only to find that it does absolutely nothing for months at a time, you will not pay for further updates. I have been using a Mac for many, many years, and I have never run any kind of anti-virus software. I have also never sent a virus to someone else.
Scott

I can not delete files to clean up existing files. I can from my phone but not my PC

i can not delete files to clean up existing files. I can from my phone but not my PC

Hi chrisb64054279,
Are you referring to files stored in your Acrobat.com online account at https://cloud.acrobat.com/files? If so, what happens when you try to delete the files? Are you receiving an error message?
Please provide a few more details about the issue that you're encountering, including what operating system you're on, and what browser you're using (if any). We'll get this sorted out.
Best,
Sara

Clean a txt file?

Is there any way to clean a txt file ?
we write on it, then we read it and clean it to write again.

i already know how to solve my problem.
thanks.
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Clean up & reduce file size of book scan to pdf

I scanned a 129-page book to PDF. Ran optimizer. File is now almost 150 MB. I see that the shading of the pages is all still there, which I don't need. There are some charts, no photos. I'm perfectly happy to have the text appear on a white page.
I tried Optimize Scanned PDF. It sliced away a thin section of the image in the middle, a problem reported over two years ago:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3384621#3384621
I then tried printing the document to a PDF, a suggestion I found somewhere. I got the progress window, "Printing page X," updating for each page # all the way to the last page. Took a nice long time. The window closed and there was no file created. I tried it with one page and it worked.
The printed PDF just appeared seemingly out of nowhere when I wrote the last sentence, I think at least 20 minutes after I printed it.
So now I have an 18 MB file. The shading on the pages is still there, and I lost the OCR text recognition I ran before. The text looks more pixellated now. It would be really nice if the Optimize Scanned PDF worked, because it had settings that purported to clean up the page background, etc. My main priority is to be able to make the text look better.
Does anyone have any suggestions or updates on the Optimize Scanned PDF bug? thanks.

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I am having all these problems after webroot did a clean up of files; I was able to find the files; all are firefox files, how do I reinstall these files?

I am having all these problems; yahoo is not the same, cannot do anything on facebook; I found the files that were "cleaned" and they were all firefox files, there are many more in que to be "cleaned" by webroot; how do I reinstall these files? How do I stop webroot from continuing this "cleanup" I emailed webroot but got no reaponse.
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You can't. The only way to get songs in the Music app is to sync from a computer or to download from iTunes.

What program works best in cleaning the junk file out of my mac?

What program works best in cleaning, and improving the speed of my mac. It's about four years old now, any suggestions are appreciated as I am new to this.

Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible. Drive Genius provides additional tools not found in Disk Warrior. Versions 1.5.1 and later are Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or Lion and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems. For more about malware see Macintosh Virus Guide.
I would also recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX 2.4.3, or Cocktail 5.1.1 that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. There is no confirmation that this version also works with Lion.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
SuperDuper!
SyncTwoFolders
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at CNet Downloads or MacUpdate.
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.

Clean up system files not owned by any package

Hello,
I recently wanted to install nginx and passenger on my laptop for some tests. Passenger requires ruby-rack and it fails to install on my system:
% sudo pacman -S passenger
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (2):
Name New Version Net Change
community/ruby-rack 1.5.2-2 4.68 MiB
community/passenger 4.0.21-1 74.39 MiB
Total Installed Size: 79.07 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(2/2) checking keys in keyring [------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity [------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(2/2) loading package files [------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ruby-rack: /usr/bin/rackup exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Therefore, I wondered why I do have /usr/bin/rackup on my sytem already. So I wanted to find which files in /usr/bin are not owned by any package:
% find /usr/bin -exec pacman -Qo {} + >/dev/null
error: No package owns /usr/bin/sequel
error: No package owns /usr/bin/serve
error: No package owns /usr/bin/nokogiri
error: No package owns /usr/bin/haml
error: No package owns /usr/bin/minitar
error: No package owns /usr/bin/update_rubygems
error: No package owns /usr/bin/rake2thor
error: No package owns /usr/bin/launchy
error: No package owns /usr/bin/dw
error: No package owns /usr/bin/sass
error: No package owns /usr/bin/sass-convert
error: No package owns /usr/bin/erubis
error: No package owns /usr/bin/bundle
error: No package owns /usr/bin/scss
error: No package owns /usr/bin/kramdown
error: No package owns /usr/bin/jekyll
error: No package owns /usr/bin/rackup
error: No package owns /usr/bin/rails
error: No package owns /usr/bin/thor
error: No package owns /usr/bin/posix-spawn-benchmark
error: No package owns /usr/bin/turn
error: No package owns /usr/bin/compass
error: No package owns /usr/bin/tt
error: No package owns /usr/bin/marutex
error: No package owns /usr/bin/maruku
error: No package owns /usr/bin/coderay
error: No package owns /usr/bin/tilt
error: No package owns /usr/bin/gpgen
error: No package owns /usr/bin/rdiscount
error: No package owns /usr/bin/redcloth
error: No package owns /usr/bin/b2sum
error: No package owns /usr/bin/html2haml
It appears that most of these files are ruby gems (nokogiri, redcloth, etc.). I cannot remember how nor when they ended up here (this is a 2 years old Arch installation).
I already remove all manually installed gems from my system but these files remain. If any of you has an opinion on what would be the best way to clean this, I'd be glad to hear.

Rolinh wrote:
I think you haven't read what I wrote:
Rolinh wrote:I already remove all manually installed gems from my system but these files remain.
I interpreted that as in you used pacman to remove them, my bad. Just to make sure though, you did 'gem uninstall' as root, right? Running it as a normal user just removes the gem files from your user's home directory.
If they're not known by pacman or gem, then you'll need to identify and remove them manually.

How to find and clean out movie files?

Keep getting the "startup disk almost full" memo. I've had this problem for a few months and I've done just about everything for temporary fixes. I've gone through downloaded files, iPhoto and iTunes and browser history- cleaned out huge chunks of each of these AND emptied trash multiple times. I uninstalled iMovie, deleted many precious videos I spent hours making, and my movies folder on finder (under favorites) only shows that its taking up 2.68 GB, but about this mac storage page shows that movies takes up 39 gig????? insanity, Is that even possible???????????? (I'm angry) i've searched for .mov, .m4v and .avi files on my mac and it shows that all 4 files i have for any of those categories don't even take up 2 gig. what is going on??????? i also have this "other" category showing up on about this mac as taking up another 30 gig of storage. i've read all the discussions and done everything but buy some stupid software that will tell me what i already know. i don't use time machine or icloud (but i will if it will give me more storage space, but i assume that it will do just the opposite).

1. Start up in Safe Mode.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2. Re-index Macintosh HD.
    Do this twice.
    Spotlight reindexing will take a while to finish.
    System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
    About “Other”:
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Cleaning up audio files with the eax clean

hi gang]
i was recording 78 records before and i was useing the eax clean up to clean them up.after i use the clean up im not sure that clean up did anything.it doesnt save the new clean up as a new file.how do i
no if it cleaned anything?also it says you have to use it with the creative media organizer-how do i do
that?is there a procedure?thanks
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Creative MediaSource can realtime clean up your noisy audio. So, you can connect your records into the line-in of your sound card and then enable MediaSource to do a li've clean up of the line-in.
If your have noisy audio files, you can also use MediaSource to do a li've clean up of the noisy audio files as the files are played via MediaSource.
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Cleaning up old files on disk

What's the best method folks are using to clean up their hard drives, and get rid of obsolete files?

Doing an Erase and install.
The checking then reinstalling all Apps, setting everything up again and only bringing over personal folders, Mail boxes, backed up Address book and Safari bookmarks makes for a Spring Cleaned Computer.
It's probably quicker & safer than going through the HD folder by folder trashing stuff no longer needed ~ you hope
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Cleaning up JNLP files

Is there a way to reliably clean up downloaded JNLP files from the desktop or wherever the user has specified downloads are to be placed when the application is done?
Leaving a bunch of JNLP files littering the desktop or home directory seems somewhat antisocial.
Thanx.

Hm. I thought I was pretty clear but let's try again.
As we all know, I assume, when a user running a web browser clicks on a link pointing to a JNLP file, that file is downloaded, either to the user's desktop or to some temp directory or folder, depending on the user's preferences. That JNLP is fed to Java Web Start, Java Web Start downloads JAR files, if necessary, to the user's cache, and launches the application.
What I want to be able to do is to cause that JNLP file to be automatically or programmatically deleted at some point, probably when the user exits the application.
What's currently happening is that old Whatever.jnlp, Whatever-1.jnlp, Whatever-2.jnlp. . . files accumulate on the user's desktop and the user has to delete them manually, which strikes me as being somewhat antisocial.
Also, at least on a Macintosh, the user can doubleclick on the JNLP file icon and launch the program, which I do not want, since the application is under active development.
I understand about <offline-allowed> and my JNLP does not have this line, so Java Web Start will always go to the server to fetch new JAR files but I have had occasions where new JAR files have been added and the old JNLPs, of course, do not refer to them and the user gets confusing results.
Thus I want to make the downloaded JNLP file go away once the application closes.
My users are on several different types of computer (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac, and Windows) so a "Windows-only" solution is not especially useful.
This has nothing to do with shortcuts or Windows "Add or Remove Programs."
Clear enough?

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