How does a battery get swollen? > On 28 Oct 2015, at 02:22, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@icloud.com> wrote: > > right now, I am not even running with a battery. I am using only the power > supply to run this thing. the battery is swollen to the point of not even > being able to fit the case. Also, I don't have the funds to go and get it > replaced. so, I do what I can with what I got. > > -eric > > On Oct 27, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > >> I wonder whether your battery is causing overheating. I had this issue on >> my old Macbook pro similar age as yours, and at that time a search on the >> internet revealed that the likely cause was the age of the battery. I had >> to change it and things had improved. Just a suggestion. >>> On 27 Oct 2015, at 20:23, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> ok. well, I haven't installed El Capitan here as yet (not sure my 2007 >>> vintage whitebook would even allow it to install). THere are one or 2 other >>> issues I have been having on this white book of mine (some random crashes >>> of voiceover, generally due to web page code viewed via safari). Also, >>> lately, the fan has been running all the time, even when I have nothing >>> going on the desktop. so far, looking through the logs hasn't revealed the >>> issue. >>> >>> any ideas? >>> >>> -eric >>> >>> On Oct 27, 2015, at 6:39 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> MacPaw actually has an offering called CleanMyPC, which has no relation to >>>> the tuneup utility BitDefender provides. If it has, I'm not aware of it, >>>> since it is vastly different and only included with other products and >>>> neither company has given credit to each other. >>>> >>>> With that out of the way, you can trust CleanMyMac. I own a copy, although >>>> it's for various reasons. >>>> >>>> sudo periodic daily weekly monthly >>>> >>>> runs all maintenance scripts at the same time. You can verify they have >>>> run by typing >>>> >>>> ls -al /var/log/*.out >>>> >>>> Saying that, beyond doing what the maintenance scripts do, they don't >>>> actually clean up application leftovers. Depending on the app, you can >>>> have support files, caches, plugins, libraries, preferences, and saved >>>> states. The maintenance scripts primarily deal with logging, at least from >>>> what I can tell when looking at them including log files. The leftovers >>>> are really where I gain some space back. I used to look for these manually. >>>> >>>> Despite that "dragging an application to the trash deletes everything" >>>> that isn't true with everything. I've found that to be the case with most >>>> applications I have, but I still see some that leave associated files >>>> around. You aren't going to get those unless you set up a cronjob to look >>>> for them, either based on a schedule or when the maintenance scripts last >>>> ran. Of course, looking for those paths is easy enough to do, so it's not >>>> as big of a deal, but it's still time you could spend on doing something >>>> else. That's been my own experiences ever since I first started running OS >>>> X, in particular with apps not from the Mac App Store. Looking through >>>> /library/Application Support, it's easy to tell which apps require a bit >>>> more work before all of it is gone. Of course, bottom line is that you >>>> don't actually need to shell out any money for apps at all, since you can >>>> do it yourself. CleanMyMac and Cocktail just make it easier. Oddly enough, >>>> the article only mentions caching and logging, but not the application >>>> deletion misconception. I always hear "just drag it to the trash and it's >>>> gone" which just glancing at folders shows that isn't always correct. >>>> Dragging .app to the trash doesn't clear associated files elsewhere. Of >>>> course, with apps from the Mac App Store this shouldn't be an issue. >>>> >>>> Food for thought. CleanMyMac already does all of that, so it's fairly >>>> useful if for no other reason than it automatically warns you if any >>>> leftovers are still around when deleting applications. It's easy enough to >>>> forget about. >>>> >>>> Nicolai >>>>> On Oct 27, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> In this case it’s actually legit and the name is merely unfortunately >>>>> similar to the dubious Windows program. >>>>> >>>>> I still wouldn’t use it, though. Here’s as good an explanation as any of >>>>> why Macs really, really don’t and shouldn’t need “cleaning”: >>>>> http://www.thesafemac.com/the-myth-of-the-dirty-mac/ >>>>> >>>>> A Mac that is on 24/7 has a slight advantage here over that which is on >>>>> only occasionally, but not by much. 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