Detox My Mac Basic
A limited legacy edition focused on logs and Trash. It relied on paths, APIs and permission assumptions that no longer represent modern macOS.
Legacy Basic pageA familiar name, rebuilt properly
The history stays.
The software starts over.
Detox My Mac first appeared in the early 2010s as a simple scan, review and cleanup utility. The name and the understandable flow survive. The old implementation does not.
Legacy statusRetired
- Old binaries unsupported
- Source reviewed only as history
- Current alternatives reviewed
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The broader legacy product included caches, downloads, app leftovers and other categories. It is not being ported or redistributed.
Legacy Pro pageWhat survives
The understandable idea.
Scan before acting. Show individual findings. Let the owner choose. Explain what changed. Those are useful product ideas worth keeping.
Scan → inspect → act
Rebuilt around evidence, confidence and recovery.
A visible hierarchy
Connected to owners, workloads and change history.
The Detox metaphor
A considered action, never an automatic purge.
Old installers are gone for a reason.
They predate hardened runtime, notarisation, Apple silicon, current privacy controls and the sealed system volume. Direct historical DMG URLs intentionally return Gone rather than serving or silently replacing an unsafe legacy binary.