Make a clone of your current internal hard drive and system as a backup, but DO NOT PLAN TO CLONE THAT DRIVE BACK TO YOUR MAC'S INTERNAL HARD DRIVE. The risk to your system and important data is too great a risk!
It is best to never, EVER download and install these types of apps. Plus, the software companies that write these apps make it hard to easily uninstall these apps if something DOES go wrong and these apps work in a way where you have no recovery or revert function to return your Mac back to its former, working state in the event something does go wrong. These types of system 'cleaning" apps are very poorly written and are really a scam to rob newbie and novice Mac users of their hard earned cash for a poorly written maintenance program that will do much more harm to a perfectly normal running OS X system than the good that the app developers purport these types of apps will do. Their potential of causing OS X issues outweighs the implied good and benefits these types of hard drive or memory "cleaning" apps are written to do.
There are manual methods to clear off unnecessary data off of your Mac that are safer and you have complete control over your Mac and not just leave a piece of auto cleaning software in charge of clearing off data off of your Mac. Plus, these type of apps aren't really necessary OR needed. You may, in fact, have damaged/corrupted your OS X system and maybe the reason your Mac is no longer performing as it should.ĭO NOT USE ANY SO CALLED APPS CLAIMING TO "CLEAN", "OPTIMIZE" OR "SPEED UP" YOUR MAC!!!! EVER!!!!Īpps like MacKeeper or any other maintenance apps like CleanMyMac 1 or 2, TuneUpMyMac, SpeedUpMyMac, MacCleanse or anything like these apps, installed on your Mac, while they appear to be helpful, can do too good a job of data "cleanup" causing the potential to do serious data corruption or data deletion and render a perfectly running OS completely dead and useless leaving you with a frozen, non-functional Mac. This should restore the version of OS X originally pre-installed on the computer. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. Note : You will need an active Internet connection. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one. Mavericks : Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button.
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen.
Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recoveryīe sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
If your model is in the list then you may need to install a firmware update before proceeding. First, check this article to find out if your model can perform an Internet Recovery: Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery. If you are willing to take the time then do the following. Without more information I can tell you that performing a clean install can't hurt. Getting rid of programs such as Mac Keeper and its ilk will go a long way to helping your computer run better. The power and speed of your computer is determined by the CPU, not your disk drive.