Introduction

Cleaning Agent is a handy disk & file utility. It's main purpose is to clean your harddisks of unwanted files.
You probably know the situation when many applications create their log files, reports or cache files. Some of these can contain even hundreds of files and can go to megabytes in size. As a consequence, you are losing precious space on your disk and more, some tasks on your computer may take more time to complete - e.g. file searches, desktop file rebuildings, virus scans, e.t.c.
Here's where Cleaning Agent will help. It can get rid of all unwanted files with a click. The principle is very simple: Add an unwanted file or folder into the Cleaning Agent's list. Everytime Cleaning Agent is launched it will check the list and trash all items that match given conditions. In spite this simple principle Cleaning Agent can be very powerful and useful tool.
What can Cleaning Agent do for you:
- clean unwanted files,
- clean whole folders or folder contents only,
- clean log files, report files, temporary files,
- clean special folders like Recent Items folder, Translated Documents folder, e.t.c.,
- clean application cache files or folders (e.g. your internet browser's cache),
- rebuild desktop files, and so on.
Periodical Clean! procedure can clean up mess that some applications can do on your disk. This means more space, less files, better disk performance, more time for you to work instead of cleaning your computer yourself.
Notes about rebuilding desktop files.
Desktop file is together with PRAM (Parametric RAM) cause of most "standard" problems on Macs. That's why Apple recommends to rebuild the desktop once a month - and Apple knows what it says. One way is to keep
<Command> and <Option> keys pressed when Finder starts up. But it is possible for Cleaning Agent to rebuild the desktop for you.
Cleaning Agent rebuilds the desktop the most efficient and the most natural way. It trashes invisible desktop files and forces Finder to create new ones next time your computer starts up. But, this way all Finder comments (as seen in Get Info window) will be lost permanently. Do not use Cleaning Agent for desktop rebuilding if you don't want to lose Finder comments of your files and folders!
Notes about launching Cleaning Agent.
By default, Cleaning Agent will run in
Edit mode. Registered users can switch to Clean! & Quit mode. This means, that after application is launched, it will perform the Clean! procedure and then it will quit.
- You can run Cleaning Agent by double-clicking its icon when you want.
- Cleaning Agent can be also launched automatically at computer startup or shutdown - use Preferences window to set this option.
- Cleaning Agent does not have ability to run in certain periods (like hours). You must use a third party software to do this. There is a simple AppleScript (Cleaning Agent Runner in Extras folder) which shows how Cleaning Agent can be launched every two hours.