There are quite a lot of mac cleaning tools out there at the moment. The competition is big, and almost every software developer tries to add more unique features to their app or combine different kinds of tools to make their product more comprehensive. Drive Genius 5 also combines two big types of tools for a safe and fast Mac work – it offers both cleaning set of tools and protection from malware and viruses.
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Prosoft Drive Genius – The Cleaning Part
・Drive Genius 5. 最新バージョン5.3.0はMojave OSに対応しています。Catalina OSには対応していません。(APFS環境での機能制限については、製品ページの仕様をご確認ください。)一部で報告されていました認証エラーは、最新バージョンで問題解消しています。. ・Drive Genius 5. 最新バージョン5.3.0はMojave OSに対応しています。Catalina OSには対応していません。(APFS環境での機能制限については、製品ページの仕様をご確認ください。)一部で報告されていました認証エラーは、最新バージョンで問題解消しています。.
In all, if you download Drive Genius 5 (or upgrade from earlier versions), you can explore through 3 Modules – Protect, Speed Up and Clean Up. We’ll talk about the Protect one a bit later; for now, let’s focus on the cleaning and speeding parts.
The Speed Up module offers you two features:
- Defragment – you can learn more about this process here. (The feature is not available on macOS High Sierra (10.13) or higher)
- Speed tab claims to measure your optimal drive performance.
The Clean Up module has 8 different tools to try. Here is a short sum up on each of them.
- Repartition – Repartition – this feature shows you all of your Mac partitions and offers you to organize or delete them in order to optimize the space. (The feature is not available on macOS High Sierra (10.13) or higher)
- Find Duplicates – this tool looks for identical files that may clutter your system.
- Find Large Files – this is a useful feature that allows you locating all the big files on your Mac. Good chances are that you don’t need many of them.
- Clone– this feature figures out the configuration of your drive and copies it to the new drive.
- Secure Erase deletes the data with no possibility of recovery.
- Initialize– this one works with preparation of new drives or deleting the old ones (can be used to prepare a drive for work with Windows or different camera cards).
- IconGenius™ – here you can choose an icon for any folder or drive.
- Information– this tab gathers all of the information you may need to find on your Mac’s system.
Drive Genius for Mac – The Protecting Part
Macs have always had the reputation of well secured devices that do not need any additional antivirus programs. However, such programs (free or paid) for OSX do exist and people do install them. It is not surprising, as you can only be amazed by the skills of modern hackers and the number of nowadays scams and viruses that potentially can affect Macs, too.
The fact that there have been a considerable amount of viruses and security issues only tells us that some kind of protection wouldn’t hurt. The last security flaw stroke not long ago, with the update to High Sierra. Maybe you didn’t notice it, as Apple was fast to fix it, but for some time, anyone could log in to your system without any passwords.
Drive Genius 5 claims to protect you from all the possible issues. By exploring the Protect module, you can see what features it offers.
- Malware Scan – when you run Malware Scan, it looks through all of your files in search for all the currently known malware. The list of such malware is updated on the daily basis. Additionally, this feature automatically looks for malware in all of your downloaded files.
- BootWell – this tool builds up an additional startup drive in order to optimize or fix you primary drive (needed for repair, defragment, advanced physical check, etc.)
- Physical Check – this feature aims to check and fix different hardware issues connected to damaged drive and cable or connection problems.
- Instant DrivePulse – it performs basic DrivePulse operations and tells you if there are problems.
- Active files – this feature shows you files and programs that are active at the moment.
- Consistency Check – this one looks through formatted drives and makes sure there are no errors and data issues.
- Repair – this tool is able to fix the majority of logical file problems.
- Rebuild – this feature can find the lost file names if the data is not removed.
The Pricing
The program offers a free demo. The download link is provided by email with a unique demo key. With the demo up and running you can test out available features for up to 30 days. Drive Genius 5 app is not free and requires a one-time payment. There are three plans you can choose from.
- Standard - $79
- Standard With BootWell© Drive - $94
- Professional - $299 (annual fee)
How to Uninstall Drive Genius
There are quite a lot of inquiries on Mac forums from people who have problems uninstalling Drive Genius. If you decide to remove this app, too, here are your options.
First option is to do it manually. First of all, stop all the processes of Drive Genius (with the help of Cmd+opt +Esc; choose Drive Genius and click on Force Quite). Then, drag-and-drop the app to Trash and confirm uninstalling. Then it is recommended to go through your files and to manually delete all the data associated with Drive Genius. Be sure you delete the following, if they are still there:
- - /Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius2.plist
- - /Users/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius
- - /Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DGAgent.plist
Second option is to use a special app. This option is much faster and easier. All you need to do is to use a cleaning app with an uninstalling feature. MacFly Pro can handle it very quickly for you.
Conclusion
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Drive Genius 5 is a great tool for managing Mac’s hard drive and its partitions. The set of provided features is rich but very narrow and you will yourself rarely using them on the regular. App’s design feels outdated and even confusing at times which can be a deal-breaker for some. If you don’t mind spending money on such a tool, it is a decent choice. It is recommended to check out the demo version before you make up your mind.
These advanced steps are primarily for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line. You don't need a bootable installer to upgrade macOS or reinstall macOS, but it can be useful when you want to install on multiple computers without downloading the installer each time.
What you need to create a bootable installer
- A USB flash drive or other secondary volume formatted as Mac OS Extended, with at least 14GB of available storage
- A downloaded installer for macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, or El Capitan
Download macOS
- Download: macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, or macOS High Sierra
These download to your Applications folder as an app named Install macOS [version name]. If the installer opens after downloading, quit it without continuing installation. To get the correct installer, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. Enterprise administrators, please download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server. - Download: OS X El Capitan
This downloads as a disk image named InstallMacOSX.dmg. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. You will create the bootable installer from this app, not from the disk image or .pkg installer.
Use the 'createinstallmedia' command in Terminal
- Connect the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer.
- Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
- Type or paste one of the following commands in Terminal. These assume that the installer is in your Applications folder, and MyVolume is the name of the USB flash drive or other volume you're using. If it has a different name, replace
MyVolume
in these commands with the name of your volume.
Big Sur:*
Catalina:*
Mojave:*
High Sierra:*
El Capitan:
* If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the
--applicationpath
argument and installer path, similar to the way this is done in the command for El Capitan.
After typing the command:
- Press Return to enter the command.
- When prompted, type your administrator password and press Return again. Terminal doesn't show any characters as you type your password.
- When prompted, type
Y
to confirm that you want to erase the volume, then press Return. Terminal shows the progress as the volume is erased. - After the volume is erased, you may see an alert that Terminal would like to access files on a removable volume. Click OK to allow the copy to proceed.
- When Terminal says that it's done, the volume will have the same name as the installer you downloaded, such as Install macOS Big Sur. You can now quit Terminal and eject the volume.
Use the bootable installer
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Determine whether you're using a Mac with Apple silicon, then follow the appropriate steps:
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- Plug the bootable installer into a Mac that is connected to the internet and compatible with the version of macOS you're installing.
- Turn on your Mac and continue to hold the power button until you see the startup options window, which shows your bootable volumes and a gear icon labled Options.
- Select the volume containing the bootable installer, then click Continue.
- When the macOS installer opens, follow the onscreen instructions.
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- Plug the bootable installer into a Mac that is connected to the internet and compatible with the version of macOS you're installing.
- Press and hold the Option (Alt) ⌥ key immediately after turning on or restarting your Mac.
- Release the Option key when you see a dark screen showing your bootable volumes.
- Select the volume containing the bootable installer. Then click the up arrow or press Return.
If you can't start up from the bootable installer, make sure that the External Boot setting in Startup Security Utility is set to allow booting from external media. - Choose your language, if prompted.
- Select Install macOS (or Install OS X) from the Utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.
Learn more
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For more information about the
createinstallmedia
command and the arguments that you can use with it, make sure that the macOS installer is in your Applications folder, then enter the appropriate path in Terminal:
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- Big Sur: /Applications/Install macOS Big Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
- Catalina: /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
- Mojave: /Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
- High Sierra: /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
- El Capitan: /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
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A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the internet, but it does require an internet connection to get firmware and other information specific to the Mac model.