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Googling for porn cleanup tools reveals a broad set of softwares that view the drive cleaning
process by implementing different techniques. Many of these fall into the parental controls
category (such as Snitch), you can usually find a free trial version of the better ones. This is not
the only function that these utilities are able to do, several of these can also
delete private data, clean up porn files, find programs that are not properly licensed,
and show where your disk space is being taken up.
There are two key ways to clean a hard drive; one option is to go through all files
and select the ones to remove, or there is software automation. Cleaning manually with products
like Snitch involves going through the folders on the hard drive and then making a decision about
which files and folders are no longer useful, and purging them in a per-case manner.
Because you examine each file manually the risks are less than running a cleanup
program but it can take some time. Utilities for cleaning hard drives that detect
info such as the file accessed date, and use this information to build a table of
files and folders that can be safely erased without involving the user.
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