CleanMyDrive 2 F.A.Q.

Since October 2023, MacPaw has stopped developing and maintaining CleanMyDrive 2 as a standalone app. It's also no longer available on the App Store.

However, all CleanMyDrive 2 features are now part of the CleanMyMac Menu, where we continue to improve and support them. You can get CleanMyMac from the MacPaw Store or the App Store.

In 2023, we integrated CleanMyDrive 2 functionality into the CleanMyMac Menu to avoid duplicating features across two apps. This lets us focus development efforts on one place—improving the cleanup experience for you.

Ending support for CleanMyDrive 2 also freed up resources to enhance other MacPaw products, such as CleanMyMac, Setapp, ClearVPN, Moonlock, Gemini 2, CleanMy®Phone, and others.

CleanMyDrive 2 isn't available on the App Store. If you hadn't downloaded it before October 2023, you can't get it anymore.

If you already have CleanMyDrive 2, it's safe, stable, and fully functional. The App Store won't remove it from your Mac.

System requirements:

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

Keep in mind:

• Apps on older, unsupported macOS versions may run slower or stop unexpectedly because they don't receive security or functional updates.
• CleanMyDrive 2 may become less reliable on macOS versions released after Sequoia because it won't receive updates or fixes.
• For the best experience, we recommend switching to CleanMyMac, which is always supported on the latest macOS versions.

Customer support remains available. The CleanMyDrive 2 FAQ stays online, and our Support Team is happy to help.

No. CleanMyDrive 2 was free, so we don't provide discounts for CleanMyMac.

However, if you've purchased any MacPaw app in the past, you may be eligible for a 30% discount on your next purchase.

CleanMyDrive 2 cleans unnecessary files from external drives connected to your Mac.

CleanMyMac does much more—it cleans, monitors, maintains, and protects your entire Mac computer.

With CleanMyDrive 2, you can:

• Save files directly to any drive by dragging and dropping them into the app.
• Customize USB drive icons for easy identification.
• Automatically eject drives when your Mac goes to sleep.
• Hide drives you don't need from the list.

1. Click the CleanMyDrive 2 icon in the menu bar to open the app.
2. View your internal and external drives, along with storage usage and available space.
3. To clean a drive, plug it into your USB port, open CleanMyDrive 2, and click Clean next to the drive's icon.

(Internal drives can be monitored but not cleaned.)

CleanMyDrive 2 manages external drives but also shows information about internal drives. To display this, the app needs permission to access drive data such as:

• Available space
• Used space
• Types of stored content

Granting permissions allows CleanMyDrive 2 to provide accurate storage details.

1. Insert your drive.
2. In CleanMyDrive 2, click the Settings icon next to the drive.
3. Turn on Automatic Cleanup.

This feature removes junk files from the drive automatically.

Yes. CleanMyDrive 2 only monitors space and removes:

• Service junk (such as .DS_Store, .Spotlight, Thumbs.db, and resource forks)
• Trashed files (files moved to the drive's local Trash)

The app doesn't touch your personal files, so it's completely safe to use.

Eject All unmounts all connected drives at once. If you close or put your Mac to sleep afterward, you can be sure your drives are safely ejected without risk of data corruption.

CleanMyDrive 2 works with:

• USB flash drives
• SD cards
• External hard drives

If you'd like to clean internal drives too, use CleanMyMac.

Yes, but network drives don't need cleaning—macOS automatically manages trashed files on them.

CleanMyDrive 2 can still make ejecting network drives faster, but cleanup isn't necessary.

CleanMyDrive 2 shows your Time Machine drive in the menu but doesn't clean it. Cleaning could corrupt your Time Machine backups, even if you're not actively using them.

No. CleanMyDrive 2 only monitors and cleans drives when it's running (the app icon should be in the menu bar).

You can have CleanMyDrive 2 start automatically at startup in Preferences.

CleanMyDrive 2 permanently deletes junk files—they can't be restored.

Service junk is regenerated by the system each time you connect a removable drive. For best results, we recommend cleaning your drive before you eject it.