OTOH, a standard counter response might be that you can also reproduce the options in CleanMyMacX using manual tools and not have the background monitor. I might well want to run it on particular occasions, but I see no reason to keep it running 24/7. That doesn’t make it a bad thing, agreed, but it does make me wonder why MacPaw would be so insistent that it is so “essential” that it has to be forced upon me. However, if one is honest it does nothing terribly useful - if I want to monitor any of those things I can already do so using other tools. Thanks for the link you provided - that at least resolves the issue of what the Health Monitor does. It doesn’t delete system junk without my first telling it to do so why should this be so different? I’m very happy that the app should provide the Health Monitor as one of its many useful tools my problem is that it provides it whether I want it or not, and doesn’t tell me it’s doing so. However, that is not, never has been, and is unlikely ever to be my purpose in installing CleanMyMacX, and I kind of resent it assuming that would be my purpose. If it stopped doing that when I closed the GUI, it wouldn’t be living up to its promise. I installed an application to monitor the health of my computer and help protect me from malware. I have uninstalled CleanMyMacX, and have no intention of re-installing it until this issue is resolved. In my experience of MacPaw over the last decade they have - up until now! - been an exemplary developer, but to I am now in the process of seriously revising my opinion. So far as I’m concerned, MacPaw could easily fix this by making launch of the Health Monitor optional, but they clearly have no intention of doing so. ![]() I take the view that as a matter of principle no well-behaved app should leave - deliberately or otherwise! - any unexpected (note my emphasis!) processes lying around, and that to start them secretly and without permission is distinctly shady practice. Now, I don’t deny the potential utility of a Health Monitor function (although MacPaw give no indication what it is doing to check the system’s health, so how would one know?), but I do resent it being foisted onto my system whether I like it or not. I raised this with MacPaw as a support issue, and they confirmed (after a 3-week pause!) that it isn’t possible to opt out of this - allegedly it is “ a necessary process for the full functionality of CleanMyMacX” This is clearly nonsense: at best it is a necessary process for the functioning of a continuing Health Monitor, but that is just another function that one may or may not wish to use it isn’t of itself essential to anything. Start the app and close it again, whatever functionalities you may run (or none of them), and you will find the Health Monitor process is running - and it will continue to run until you kill it or shutdown the system. It doesn’t ask if it can do this, it doesn’t tell you it’s doing this, and there is no way of preventing it. If you launch CleanMyMacX it starts up this Health Monitor process, and when you terminate the app it secretly leaves that process running. Another, unadvertised, feature is a Health Monitor. It’s not entirely clear what that does, but it sounds like the kind of feature it’s handy to have around. ![]() One of the additions to its arsenal of useful tools is a system Health Check. ![]() I do, however, have one serious reservation. (Or, if you use Setapp, to install from there!) I have a few favourites, but I don’t use everything that’s there, even though I’m glad that some of the other facilities are available “just in case” I should need them, even if I’ve never used them.ĬleanMyMacX It has a few useful additions compared to previous versions, and is the only version to run on Catalina, so there are several good reasons to purchase. CleanMyMac has a useful little armoury of assorted admin tools, ranging from freeing off disk space by removing assorted system junk (that’s my most-used functionality), uninstalling apps (that’s the other took I use regularly), running assorted maintenance scripts, finding and deleting old and large files, etc etc. ![]() CleanMyMacX is the latest incarnation of that useful maintenance tool CleanMyMac, which has been on all my Macs for a decade or more.
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