CleanUp smb mess overview

CleanUp smb mess can quickly and easily clean FAT 32 drives, pendrives, SD memories for mobiles and cameras, SMB/CIFS Samba shares (Windows and Linux) from ".DS_Dtore" and "._*" files, and other invisibles files the Mac lefts behind.

Features:

GUI with a lot of options
Can remove also Temporary Items, Time Machine tokens, Spotlight indexes, Mac Trash folders etc.
Automatically detects volumes to be cleaned.
Unlimited shareware: no license, no limitations, no expiry date. Shareware fee is just an ethical issue.

What’s new in version 3.0

Updated on Jun 22 2021

Version 3.0:

Rewritten as an automator application under Mojave, is supposed to run up to Big Sur
The application acts on ejectable disks
Provided with an Automator Workflow for Finder’s "Quick Actions" menu, that can also clean folders.

Information

License

Free

Size

1.8 MB

Developer’s website

https://faqintosh.com/risorse/en/sys/cleansmb/

Downloads

9095

App requirements

Intel 64
Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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Nick-Collingridge

Jul 11 2017

2.2

5.0

Version: 2.2

Doesn't work with Sierra - has "do not enter" sign across it in the Finder.

dendrobates

Jan 7 2015

I use an Android tablet basically for reading books and comics which I manage from my Mac computer. When I pass files to the tablet's SD card (used only for storage, no system files there) I keep on finding the "._files" created by Mac OS X everywhere. After some browsing today I have found this nice little app that allows me to clean the SD card of these "._files" before unmounting it, which is exactly what I needed.

Oct 10 2014

Great product - does exactly what it says it does, is well implemented and reliable. The main reason I use this is to delete all the dot files etc for a 32GB SD card I use in my car hifi. If I don't do this then these files are displayed and make it much less pleasant when playing music.

Guest

Feb 3 2005

1.1

Version: 1.1

This program is completely useless and dangerous to use. I dragged my drive into the app like it said in the readme document. It seemed to be doing something for about a minute; then I recieved a 'session timed out' window. I went back to my drive and found out that many of my files, mostly quicktime files, had been corrupted and rendered useless. I must now go back and re-digitize hours of footage, some of which is unrecoverable. Bottom line: don't ever use this program.

Jun 12 2004

Also need an option to delete only ORPHANED ._ files. eg. When a file ._archrux.jpg has no corresponding archrux.jpg file, then it's okay to delete the ._archrux.jpg file.

Jory

Apr 8 2004

3.5

Great little AppleScript! Yes, it could be a dangerous thing to use, but I wanted to delete all the .DS_Store and ._xxxx files that got created when I dropped MP3 files onto my Jukebox via an SMB share. MP3 files have no resource fork, so it was safe. I do wish I had an idea that it was working, but I did have it sort through 80 GB of MP3s, all in nested directory structures, and it completed in just a couple minutes!

Mar 3 2003

Deleting the resource fork files along with the .DS_Store files is throwing the baby out with the bathwater! The Windoze IT administrators want the useless clutter of .DS_Store files done away with; but deleting the resource fork files render storage of many Mac files utterly useless! We need a user preference option to NOT delete resource fork files!!!!!!