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Panther Cache Cleaner

Panther Cache Cleaner - 2.4.7

system maintenance & optimization app

All Time: (3.9)
Version 2.4.7: (5.0)
Selected Version: 2.4.7
Release Date: 2005-02-10
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 2.4.7): 9,630
Downloads (all versions): 447,181
Price: $8.95

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Product Description:

Panther Cache Cleaner is a utility designed to provide easy access to numerous OS X maintenance and utility options. When used in combination with OS X's disk repair tools, it can be very effective in curing many system problems. Panther Cache Cleaner helps simplify system maintenance chores with an easy point and click interface to many OS X functions. Panther Cache Cleaner can improve system performance by tuning internet and file caching settings and by implementing ram disks. Panther Cache Cleaner can improve startup performance by eliminating duplicate or orphaned Login Items. PCC Documents and the PCC Engine can help maintain system health by providing set and forget automation of common maintenance chores. Used as directed, Panther Cache Cleaner can be a powerful tool to keep OS X running smoothly. Panther Cache Cleaner has the most comprehensive cache cleaning and permissions repair of any utility in its class and it is the only one in its class able to run in a non administrator account.
  • Flexible OS X system cache cleaning options.
  • Flexible Finder cleaning options.
  • Clean ".DS_Store" window settings files.
  • Repair disk permissions.
  • Repair OS 9 permissions.
  • Fixes Software Update Permissions.
  • Rebuild application library prebindings.
  • Execute Mac OS X maintenance scripts.
  • Delete Virtual Memory swapfiles.
  • Force delete files and folders.
  • Force empty trash.
  • Clear archived system logs.
  • Shutdown to Single User Mode.
  • Enables File System Journaling.
  • Optimize Internet settings.
  • Optimize Safari.
  • Optimize file cache.
  • Automatically prioritize applications.
  • Renew DHCP Lease.
  • Rebuild the Services Menu.
  • Create Ram Disks.
  • Repair root directory OS X symbolic links.
  • Recreate OS 9 Desktop alias.
  • Repair /tmp link.
  • Restart system daemons.
  • Kill or restart the Finder.
  • Kill or restart the Dock.
  • Preserve clipboard across boot cycles.
  • Customize hidden Mac OS X settings.
  • Temporarily disable Energy Saver.
  • Use the Virex engine to automatically scan and clean viruses.
  • PCC Documents for one step access to maintenance chores.
  • PCC Engine for set and forget automatic maintenance.
  • Activate Login Items Folder.
  • Scan Login Items for duplicate or orphaned items.
  • Open applications with root privileges.
  • Use in any user account.
  • Easy to use graphical interface - no Terminal required.
  • Illustrated documentation.

What's new in this version:

This release adds the ability to remove language localization files. It adds a screenshot helper. In addition to reporting to the console log, PCC now writes detailed logging of its activities in the users local log folder. This release has been updated for OS X 10.3.8. This release is a free upgrade for previously registered Panther/Jaguar Cache Cleaner users.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.3.6
  • BSD subsystem (part of Mac OS X standard installation)

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Feedback Summary:

Version 2.4.7:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (4.5) Support: (4.5)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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Panther Cache Cleaner ReviewSiding here with Bashar - Version: 5.0.2, 10/17/2009 09:48AM PST

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xjja
Should allow for empty or blank passwords

Use Onyx or *censored*tail instead
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Panther Cache Cleaner CommentaryUpgrade Price - Version: 5.0.2, 9/13/2009 06:30AM PST

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hhorse_dotmac
...is $5.99. My opinion is that this "limited time only" price for loyal customers of $8.99 (now $9.99) software, for something functionally unchanged, is excessive. Others will disagree. A 50% of the base price upgrade? Oh well...
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Panther Cache Cleaner CommentaryNeeds an early warning system--"This will take me 36 hours." - Version: 4.0.27, 9/8/2009 07:36PM PST

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Mr Reynolds--2008
This application probably does everything it is intended to do, but I find it hard to tell--as with my car dealership, when I hand the car over to them for maintenance, I do not get it back until it is alleged to have been maintained--but everything is done (or not done) in a completely hidden location. At least at the car dealership I am given an estimate of how long the operation will take.

I like the IDEA of this application, but (although I have paid for it, I am not using it. Unlike the old Speed Disk from Norton, I haven't a clue--or even a colorful graphic interface--to amuse me while it is supposedly defragmenting files--and apparently a 160 GB hard disk can become so fragmented that it can take a day and a night and another day to defragment it. There is a blue line, of course: but after the first six hours or so your attention may wander.

Things as apparently simple as "tuning" the computer for broadband, which do not take so long, are similarly uncommunicative about what they can or will do, or what use the application's efforts are on my behalf. While it may be true that "everybody's somebody's baby," this baby seems too deep for me to understand. "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves . . ." I don't regret the money, as clearly the developer has contrived an application full of sound and fury at great effort for him. But I wish it could learn to talk to me.
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