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KEEP YOUR MAC HEALTHY

Source: Send apps you no longer use from the Applications folder to the Trash.

>THERE AREplenty of apps which claim to automate the process of speeding up your Mac. Some of these simply automatically search for large files to delete and free up your caches, which we already did in the previous section. Some are malicious apps that pretend to clean up your Mac but instead bog it down with junk. Even reputable apps, such as virus scanners, will sometimes cripple your machine with multiple “threat detection” warnings about harmless files.

In view of the above, we do not recommend any third-party

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