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Summary: A nightmare in waiting
Review: From Aladdin's site, I obtained the upgrade to version 6.0 (from 2.0 -- I'm a patient guy). I was aware of the long-established criticism of Spring Cleaning: namely, that the program makes it far too easy to delete critical files, but I thought I'd be okay if I merely stuck to "simple" steps such as deleting empty folders and orphaned preferences. I set the program to carry out those functions and walked away for a short while.Result? The mother of all system crashes. Turns out that Spring Cleaning deleted a few key system files, including the Finder(!). Without the Macintosh Bible and Norton Utilities (two products I do highly recommend), I'm not sure I'd have a working Mac. Even with those product assists, rebuilding/resurrecting my machine took hours. I think it's too late to return the upgrade, but I'll never buy another copy of this program.
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Summary: A nightmare in waiting
Review: Looking for a software program to free up storage space, remove duplicate files, and generally clean out your hard drive? KEEP LOOKING. Spring Cleaning 6.0 for OS X is without question the worst Mac software I've ever used. Having been around for some time, I thought this would be the best program to choose in terms of addressing my hard drive maintenance issues. Not only is it painfully slow, it has one of the least intuitive interfaces imaginable. Make one error by pressing "Continue" when you're not supposed to, and look forward to the program spending another 30-45 minutes scanning your hard drive for files. After running it for several hours -- yes, hours -- on my G4, it quit twice towards the end of the program -- just disappeared off the screen -- at roughing the same point (the "Remove Aliases" section). I haven't experienced this kind of frustration with a Mac product since a Mac lost a lengthy term paper back in 1992 -- it's that bad. It deserves zero stars, but Amazon won't allow that, so here it is at a single star. Apple should be ashamed to sell it in their retail stores, where I purchased it -- don't make the same mistake by purchasing it from Amazon.
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Summary: Terrible Software -- Don't Waste Your Money
Review: Looking for a software program to free up storage space, remove duplicate files, and generally clean out your hard drive? KEEP LOOKING. Spring Cleaning 6.0 for OS X is without question the worst Mac software I've ever used. Having been around for some time, I thought this would be the best program to choose in terms of addressing my hard drive maintenance issues. Not only is it painfully slow, it has one of the least intuitive interfaces imaginable. Make one error by pressing "Continue" when you're not supposed to, and look forward to the program spending another 30-45 minutes scanning your hard drive for files. After running it for several hours -- yes, hours -- on my G4, it quit twice towards the end of the program -- just disappeared off the screen -- at roughing the same point (the "Remove Aliases" section). I haven't experienced this kind of frustration with a Mac product since a Mac lost a lengthy term paper back in 1992 -- it's that bad. It deserves zero stars, but Amazon won't allow that, so here it is at a single star. Apple should be ashamed to sell it in their retail stores, where I purchased it -- don't make the same mistake by purchasing it from Amazon.
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