To erase and install Mavericks read: OS X Mavericks: Erase and reinstall OS X

Subsequent to using Setup Assistant, you will need to reinstall the essential software you may require, once again remembering to install software only from their original sources, and omitting all non-essential software.

When doing so, select only your previous User account and do not select 'Applications', 'Computer and Network Settings' or 'Other files and folders'.

You will then be able to use Setup Assistant to migrate your essential documents including photos, music, work products and other essential files.

The recovery procedure will require that you erase the Mac using OS X Recovery, and then create a new user whose contents will be empty.

To do that read Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac.

If you do not have a backup that predates the use of CleanMyMac, create one now.

Choose a date preceding the installation of CleanMyMac.

For Time Machine, boot OS X Recovery, and at the Mac OS X Utilities screen, choose Restore from Time Machine Backup. If you have a backup that you created prior to using CleanMyMac, now is the time to use it.Reinstalling OS X alone will have no effect on either removing CleanMyMac or reversing the damage it is capable of inflicting upon a system.įollow the applicable recovery procedure below: Neither one of those possibilities is particularly comforting for the user. Only MacPaw, its developer, can know the reason for that, but I can think of two possibilities: either they are purposefully leaving components behind for reasons known only to them, or they simply don't know what they're doing.

There is no way to reverse the effects of having used CleanMyMac2, and the developer's uninstallation instructions are ineffective. Like many ill-conceived 'cleaning' utilities, 'CleanMyMac' is trash capable of corrupting a Mac to the point that erasing it completely is the only practicable means of recovery.

I use avast cleaner on my mac