What I was trying to say is that while CleanApp follows an app's installation as part of its eventual deletion functionality, it isn't geared to show the details of the installation immediately after its occurrence, which is what freelance asked about.
To my mind, CleanApp is selling itself short badly by not giving users immediate access to the info and enabling them to see precisely what they've done immediately upon their having done it. It's a wasted, valuable opportunity to nip trouble in the bud.
To my knowledge, there is nothing to prevent you from running CleanApp immediately after an installation so you would know what files were installed, but there may be other files created by the app when it is run that CleanApp would not be able to find because they do not yet exist.
While CleanApp tracks the files that are installed it does not report WHERE they are installed.For all of that, how many times has CleanApp led you to delete a file that neither an app name search nor a developer name search would have found, and how, if at all, were you able to verify that the app in question had actually created it? (I'd love to see an example.)
Although I have used CleanApp for several years I have never bothered to check it that closely but I do recall seeing files that were not obvious by either name or extension. I do know that I have used the "deleted by others" as a guide to choosing which files to delete when there have been multiple versions of an app or apps with similar names. No few of those files were NOT automatically flagged by CleanApp for deletion, but in the last few years I generally delete any file found even supporting files files that were found but not automatically flagged for deletion and I have yet to encounter a problem. But that is just my experience and
NOT a scientific study of the subject.
CleanApp doesn't list games. Too bad. I would like to uninstall a game demo.
If the game has an executable file and is located in /Applications, ~/Applications or a sub-directory of each it is an app and CleanApp will find and delete it. It will also find and delete Fonts, QuickTime components, screen savers, widgets, internet plugins, kernel extensions, relics, iOS backups, iOS Updates, Log files, temporary files, empty folders, identical files, old files, universal binaries, app data, and language files. AFIK it does not detect workflows or AppleScripts
per. se., but those are almost always self contained and easy to delete.
CleanApp is…
- NOT a panacea
- NOT perfect
- NOT faultless
- NOT the only App delete application on the market
- NOT the only app deleting tool on my computer
- the first and IIRC only app removal tool I use
- the app removal tool I have relied on since the early days of OS X
- in my opinion the safest app removal tool for the non-technical user
FULL DISCLOSUREI once again assert that I receive no remuneration of any kind from Synium Software other than being a satisfied purchaser and user of several of their products.
