CleanMyDrive 2 F.A.Q.

Since October 2023, MacPaw stops developing and maintaining CleanMyDrive 2 as a standalone app, and it won't be available on the App Store. However, you can find all features of CleanMyDrive 2 in the CleanMyMac Menu, and we'll continue to develop these features in the future.

The external drives functionality and other features in the CleanMyMac Menu are always free, even after the end of a trial period in CleanMyMac. You can get CleanMyMac from our website or on the App Store.

Why MacPaw stops developing CleanMyDrive 2

Since 2023, you can remove junk from external drives not only with CleanMyDrive 2 but also using the CleanMyMac Menu. We decided not to duplicate the feature in two apps but leave it in one place – CleanMyMac. Thus, we can save efforts and concentrate more on the cleanup feature itself, giving you a better experience.

Moreover, once we cease to maintain CleanMyDrive 2 as a standalone app, we'll have more resources for other great products besides CleanMyMac: Setapp, ClearVPN, Moonlock, Gemini 2, CleanMy®Phone, and others.

What it means for users that CleanMyDrive 2 is no longer developed

CleanMyDrive 2 won't be available on the App Store. If you haven't downloaded the app before, there will be no way to get it. Still, you may find all features of CleanMyDrive 2 in the CleanMyMac Menu.

If you already have CleanMyDrive 2, it remains perfectly safe to use.

For people who installed the app before, it'll remain fully stable, functional, and secure. The App Store won't withdraw CleanMyDrive 2 from your Mac.

These are the system requirements for CleanMyDrive 2:

• macOS 10.13 or later, including macOS Sequoia 15
• Intel or Apple silicon processor – 35 MB of disk space

We can't guarantee that CleanMyDrive 2 will always work flawlessly on older systems. Apple only fully supports its latest operating system and two versions before it. When a new macOS is released, yet another older one stops receiving functional and security updates. Without security updates, all apps, including CleanMyDrive 2, might be at risk from hackers. And, like other apps on unsupported systems, CleanMyDrive 2 may work slowly or even stop unexpectedly, and we may not be able to help.

CleanMyDrive 2 may also run slower and less reliably on systems that will follow macOS Sequoia 15 because the app won't receive updates or fixes. That's why we recommend switching to CleanMyMac, which is always supported on the latest operating systems.

Customer support is still available. The FAQ for CleanMyDrive 2 will remain online, and our Support Team will be happy to answer all your questions and requests.

I used CleanMyDrive 2. Can I have a discount for CleanMyMac?

No. Since CleanMyDrive 2 was a free app, we don't provide discounts on other MacPaw products.

But if you previously purchased any app from MacPaw, you may receive a 30% discount on your next purchase.

With CleanMyDrive 2 you can:

• Save files directly to any drive by dragging-and-dropping that file into CleanMyDrive 2
• Customize your USB icons for easy identification and to give them a personal touch
• Have your drives automatically ejected when your Mac goes to sleep
• Hide the disks you don't need right now from the list

Please note that since October 2023, CleanMyDrive 2 is no longer developed.

CleanMyDrive 2 can only clean up unnecessary files (junk) from external drives which you connect to your computer. Whereas CleanMyMac is a much stronger tool that allows you to clean up, monitor, maintain, and protect your entire Mac.

To get started with CleanMyDrive 2, just click its icon in the menu bar and open the app. Here all of your drives (both internal and external) will be displayed, and you can see what your space is being used for and how much free space is left.

Cleaning a drive is as simple as plugging it into your USB port, opening CleanMyDrive 2 from your menu bar, and hitting Clean next to that drive's icon (please note that internal drives can be monitored with CleanMyDrive 2, but not cleaned).

CleanMyDrive 2 is an external drive manager, but it also displays the status of your internal drives. To do this, CleanMyDrive 2 asks for permissions, so it can access important information about your drives and display it in the app. By granting CleanMyDrive 2 these permissions, you are allowing it to show you how much space is on the drive, how much space you have left, what type of content you have on your drive, and other useful information.

With CleanMyDrive 2, you can maintain your removable drives by using its built-in automated cleanup feature. To enable it, insert your drive, click on the Settings icon to the left of your drive's icon in CleanMyDrive 2, and turn on the Automatic cleanup switch.

Yes, absolutely. CleanMyDrive 2 only monitors the space on your removable drives and cleans them from:

• Service junk (such files as .DS_Store, .Spotlight, Thumbs.db, Resource forks, and other useless system-generated data)
• Trashed files (files that are simply removed and appear in the drive's local Trash).

That means CleanMyDrive 2 is completely safe to use.

The Eject All command unmounts all of your mounted drives at once. If you close your MacBook or put your Mac into sleep mode after using the Eject All command, you'll be able to eject any of your drives with the assurance that they won't be corrupted.

CleanMyDrive 2 can clean USB flash drives, SD cards, external hard drives. If you wish to clean internal drives as well, you should check out our all-in-one Mac cleaning and caring app called CleanMyMac.

Yes, it does, however, your network drives don't need to be cleaned. The reason? When you delete things from your network drive, your Mac takes care of the trashed items. The benefit of having CleanMyDrive 2 for network drives is that it makes ejecting drives faster. But again, network drives don't collect or store trash, so cleaning them is basically unnecessary.

CleanMyDrive 2 shows your Time Machine drive in its main menu but doesn't clean it. This is due to the fact that cleaning your Time Machine drive may corrupt Time Machine backups located on the drive even if you aren't performing any actions with the backups.

No, CleanMyDrive 2 doesn't monitor your drives unless it's running (make sure you see the app icon in the menu bar). However, you can have CleanMyDrive launch automatically on startup by enabling this in the app Preferences.

CleanMyDrive 2 erases useless files completely, to the point where they can't be restored.

This happens because service junk is generated by the system every time you insert your removable drive into your computer. This is why we suggest cleaning your drive every time you unmount it.