Purchase and installation How do I install Avast Cleanup Pro? Follow these steps to install Avast Cleanup Pro from the Avast website:. and run the Avast Cleanup Pro setup file. Double-click the Install Avast Cleanup Pro icon in the dialog which appears. Follow the on-screen setup instructions.
Apr 12, 2017 - Mac Duplicate Cleaner is a suspicious computer utility software made specifically for Mac systems. It can be installed on the computer even without user's. Wait until antivirus downloads it's latest virus definition updates. You may now delete or remove files that belongs to Mac Duplicate Cleaner. On a Mac, use the Finder app to find the program. Press 'Command-I' to open the program’s information dialog and copy the path in the “Where” field. Unblocking a Program.
Enter your system credentials, then click Install Software. Click Close to exit setup. For detailed installation instructions, refer to the following article:. How do I activate Avast Cleanup Pro? Avast Cleanup Pro is automatically activated when you purchase a subscription from within the program.
However, if you purchased a subscription via another Avast product or sales channel, then you need to manually activate your subscription by entering the activation code located in your order confirmation email. If you are re-installing Avast Cleanup Pro, or installing Avast Cleanup Pro on another Mac, then you also need to manually activate your subscription using an activation code. To manually activate Avast Cleanup Pro, follow these steps:. Open the order confirmation email sent to you after you purchased Avast Cleanup Pro and copy the activation code.
Click the Avast Cleanup Pro icon on the menu bar and select Open Avast Cleanup Pro. Click Insert License Key.
Paste or type the activation code into the text box and click OK. For detailed installation instructions, refer to the following article:.
How do I purchase Avast Cleanup Pro? And Avast Cleanup Pro from the Avast website, then open the program and click Buy Cleanup Pro to purchase and activate a subscription. Features What is Clean Clutter? Clean Clutter scans several areas of your hard drive and detects unnecessary files which can be removed to create more disk space on your Mac. To perform a scan, click Scan under Clean Clutter on the main Avast Cleanup Pro screen. After the scan completes, you can review the amount of space taken up by unnecessary files.
To clean a whole category of files, tick the file type in the left-side panel. You can view individual items within a category by clicking the file type. Untick any items you don't want cleaned. Click Clean in the bottom-right corner to permanently remove the selected items from your system. You can adjust the Clean Clutter scan settings by going to AvastCleanup on the menu bar, then selecting Preferences and clicking the Scanning tab. What is Find Duplicates? Find Duplicates detects multiple files which contain identical content.
To perform a scan, click Find under Find Duplicates on the main Avast Cleanup Pro screen. After the scan completes, you can click a category in the left-side panel to view which duplicate files Avast Cleanup Pro detected. Select the files you want to remove by either clicking the drop-down menu in the bottom-left corner and, or by clicking the tabs in the left-side panel and manually ticking or unticking the individual files. To permanently remove the selected items from your Mac, click Clean in the bottom-right corner.
You can adjust the Find Duplicates scan settings by going to AvastCleanup on the menu bar, then selecting Preferences and clicking the Scanning tab. Which duplicates should I select for cleaning? After running a Find Duplicates scan, Avast Cleanup Pro lists files which contain identical content.
To select which duplicates to remove, use the drop-down menu in the bottom-left corner of the results screen and select an option:. Keep oldest: keeps the oldest files in each set of duplicates and removes the newest files. Keep newest: keeps the newest files in each set of duplicates and removes the oldest files. Select none: deselects all files and allows you to make a Custom Selection by manually ticking items for removal. When you make a selection from the drop-down menu, the selection is applied to all Find Duplicates categories. What is Find Photos?
Find Photos detects photos that are blurry, bladly-lit, or similar. To perform a scan, click Find under Find Photos on the main Avast Cleanup Pro screen. You can specify where Avast Cleanup Pro should look for photos, and then after the scan completes, review and select which photos you want to delete.
Avast Cleanup Pro automatically selects the photos that are recommended to remove. To change the selection, use the drop-down menu in the bottom-left corner of the results screen and click Select None. You can then manually tick the box on each photo you want to delete. To permanently remove the selected items from your Mac, click Remove in the bottom-right corner.
What is Alert Me? Alert Me is a notification feature which allows Avast Cleanup Pro to continuously scan your system and notify you when a certain amount of clutter is detected. Alert Me is enabled by default. To disable this feature, click AvastCleanup on the menu bar and select Preferences. Select the Alerts tab and adjust the settings according to your preferences. Troubleshooting Why doesn't Avast Cleanup Pro clean anything from my system? Avast Cleanup Pro requires a paid subscription to use.
If you installed Avast Cleanup Pro but have not purchased a subscription, the program cannot clean your system. Why do I need to grant permissions to Avast Cleanup Pro? If Avast Cleanup Pro detects clutter in your system folders, you are asked to enter your system credentials to continue the cleaning process. This stops unauthorized users clearing items from your system folders. Why do I need to close open programs before Avast Cleanup Pro continues cleaning?
When you perform a Clean Clutter scan, Avast Cleanup Pro detects unnecessary files, including those stored in your browsers and applications. If the applications containing these files are running when you click Clean, Avast Cleanup Pro asks you to close the applications to prevent them from crashing or malfunctioning.
How do I send feedback about Avast Cleanup Pro? To send feedback about Avast Cleanup Pro, follow these steps:. Click the Avast Cleanup Pro icon on the menu bar and select Open Avast Cleanup Pro. Click Help on the menu bar, then select Send Feedback from the context menu. Enter the relevant information into the text boxes, then click Send.
How do I uninstall Avast Cleanup Pro? To uninstall Avast Cleanup Pro, follow these steps:. Click the Avast Cleanup Pro icon on your menu bar and select Open Avast Cleanup Pro. Click AvastCleanup on the menu bar and select Uninstall Avast Cleanup Pro from the context menu. In the Avast Cleanup Pro Uninstaller dialog, click Continue. Enter your system credentials, then click OK.
When the uninstallation is complete, click Finish. Avast Cleanup Pro is now uninstalled from your Mac.
. Limited feature set. Basic user interface. Unique features don’t seem to work Known and trusted by millions of Windows PC and Android users for its antivirus products, Avast is now looking to conquer new markets by offering a handful of apps optimizing Mac performance, security and privacy.
Avast Cleanup Pro seems to be the Mac version of the Cleanup Premium app that is available for Windows users and is part of this new offering specifically developed for the growing market of Mac users that the company sees as an opportunity on which it can capitalize. The software is available as a free download, but you need to purchase a license to actually make use of the product – though doing so is protected by a 30-day money back guarantee. A yearly subscription license costs $59.99 per Mac, but it can be had for as low as $16.89 for one machine through a special 20% discount offer. But is it time for Mac users to take notice? Features Installing Avast Mac Cleanup Pro requires admin privileges, and it takes less than a minute. After that, a clean and easy-to-understand welcome screen appears, informing the user about the software’s built-in features and that it is using the scan-only mode. This means that without a valid license the software will only scan the Mac, identify cache files and look for duplicates.
To actually free up space you’ll need to either enter a license key or, if you somehow managed to obtain an Avast Cleanup Pro installer, purchase one by clicking the “Clean” button. Avast Cleanup Pro Activation Prompt If your expectations aren’t high, then you won’t be disappointed. The software’s welcome screen displays everything you need, and since the available features are quite limited there is no way you’ll miss anything. The features that are here include: Clean Clutter, Find Duplicates and Alert Me (when there’s clutter to clean). Cleaning By clicking on the green “Clean” button, Avast Mac Cleanup will search the machine for crash reports, junk and temporary files, and log files created by applications, as well as any browser caches, development junk data, and system files that macOS adds to external files that are formatted for other operating systems. Notification After Cleaning Depending on the Mac’s hardware limitations, the scan can be very quick – which we experienced on our test machine – and will display its findings in a pretty basic app window, whose header advises the user as to how much clutter there is on the machine. The different clutter categories appear on the left, and the basic graphics show how much each category takes out of the total amount of junk data.
The process of removing the files marked for deletion is fairly self-explanatory, requiring manual reviewing of the files and unchecking of any you don’t want to delete. At the bottom left of the window the app displays a dropdown list with the recommended selection being the default for clutter. This is how Avast Cleanup Pro allows users to customize the cleaning process. The default setting includes the first three categories: application caches, log files, and trash. The cleanup process can be customized by checking the Downloads folder, and if you happen to be a developer you may be lucky enough to be given the opportunity to test how the development junk feature works, since the category was greyed out during our testing – much like the External Drive Junk. After reviewing the files, hit “Clean” and then the app will display a message showing how much clutter has been removed. The process is flawless, although the app did crash once during our testing while we were reviewing a file listed in the Downloads folders.
Utilities Avast Cleanup Pro’s second main feature is its ability to deep scan a targeted folder for duplicates. This includes duplicate documents, pictures, music, videos, folders, and other files. The Duplicate Finder feature allows you to use file size, date, or a preview to decide which clones you need and which to remove from the Mac.
The app will scan the Mac user’s Home folder by default, but the targeted folder can be changed in the Preferences. In our testing the Duplicate Finder performed very well, maybe even too well; it identified nearly 20GB of duplicate files in the Mac’s home folder, a lot when compared to Gemini’s 2GB.
The difference between the two results could be due to Avast’s deep scanning functionality, so when it comes to pictures, for example, Avast scours through the Photos library and carefully identifies duplicates. It does the same for videos, too, and will identify temporary files if there is a duplicate, so it does a good job here.
Deleting Duplicate Files Although there are quick removal options – such as “keep newest” or “keep oldest” – reviewing these files is highly recommended. After hitting the clean button Avast Cleanup Pro removes the files, but they will be deleted forever. This means that they won’t be in the trash, so if you accidentally remove a file (you will have another duplicate remember), then you won’t be able to recover it without a Time Machine backup. Pricing Compared to its competitors, Avast Cleanup Pro for Mac is priced high at $59.99 per year for a single Mac license. Luckily Avast doesn’t shy away from discount deals, and therefore grants new users a, dropping the price for one Mac to $47.99 in the first year.
However, we were able to use the same license key on a secondary Mac, which means two things: first, that Avast needs to do its homework when it comes to protecting its products and, second, that the price for one license ultimately drops to at least half when used for two (or more) Macs. Avast is available as a free download from the support page, but to use its cleaning features you need to purchase a license.
The free trial is only for scanning purposes, but a 30-day money back guarantee gives enough time to test the software. Avast also offers a discount if you opt for three Cleanup Pro for Mac licenses: in this case the price drops to $18.66 per Mac per year when combined with the 20% discount, since the total is only $55.99.
There is also a three-year subscription available, which costs $127.99 for one and $151.99 for three Mac licenses. Customer Service While the software is activated by default upon purchase, the same cannot be said of the Avast account. You need to register for one if you want to make use of the community support for the software, as the support page gives users very limited information.
Customer Support Message Avast, however, enables several channels of communication for its customers. For example, you can send feedback (and hope they will reply) by clicking on the Help section in the app menu bar. But if you want customer support to reply, then head over to the dedicated page and select the category of problem that you are facing. Here you’ll be able to either send a message or obtain a phone number through which the company can be contacted. Bottom Line Avast Cleanup Pro is a newcomer in the industry, and that clearly shows in how the app is presented and the features it carries. When compared to its competitors, Avast Cleanup Pro’s feature set is poor for its price.
The developer junk and external drive junk cleaning features just didn’t work, which makes them useless. At its best, the software may be useful as a thorough and fast duplicate finder, since it was able to find so many more duplicates than its competitors could. At this stage it’s clear that Avast Cleanup Pro is a clear rookie in this segment, so if you are looking to clean up your Mac of system junk then it’s better to turn to other Mac optimization apps instead of this one. When it comes to cleaning application caches the program is good enough, but that’s not satisfactory enough to make it worthwhile when there are tons of other neat optimization solutions for half the price. Main Features System Cleanup Cleanup Customization Trash Cleanup Browser Cleanup Photo Cleanup Language Removal Cache Cleanup Mail Cleanup iTunes Cleanup Log Cleanup Utilities Uninstaller Shredder Startup Optimizer Memory Optimization Privacy Protection Reindex Spotlight Mail Optimization Duplicate File Removal Pricing Price $3.99/mo Free Trial Free Version Money Back Guarantee 30 days Payment Methods Visa PayPal MasterCard American Express Wire Transfer Discover Amazon Payments Customer Support 24/7 Email Live Chat On Call Remote Desktop Community Twitter Facebook.