Drive Cleaner For Mac

Drive Cleaner is an easy-to-use application that can help clear non-essential items from your Mac’s storage, freeing up disk space and potentially even increasing performance. It can remove downloaded mail attachments, cache data, logs, foreign language files and the sleep image.

Drive Cleaner is a suitable utility for novices, as you can simply start it up and let it do its thing. It automatically searches for files in a number of preset locations and displays the results in bar and pie chart form.

However, it is notable that scanning for foreign language files can take a considerable amount of time, and the removal process is also quite slow.

The interface is fairly minimalistic and split into three tabs. The first deals with your Mac’s cache, log files and mail downloads. These items can usually be safely deleted, so inexperienced users should have no worries when clicking the 'Auto Clean' button.

The ‘Guard Privacy’ tab displays your Mac’s downloads log, which can be cleared without removing the actual files. This is mainly for security reasons, as this operation will not free up a significant amount of disk space.

By accessing the ‘Advanced’ tab, you can clear the contents of the sleep image, which is generated every time your system enters hibernation mode, as well as foreign language files that you may not have need of.

Moreover, the utility calculates the size of your ‘Application Support’ folder. Many apps do not remove their files from this directory when they are uninstalled, and you may find items that can be deleted by browsing its contents.

While Drive Cleaner does include a respectable array of features, it would help if it could also scan for duplicates, files that have not been used in a long time, as well as very large items.

This is an easy-to-use application that can free up quite a bit of valuable hard drive space by removing unnecessary items. Some potentially useful features are lacking, though, and scanning for foreign language files takes much too long.