OnyX is a popular freeware utility for macOS developed by French developer Joël Barrière that is compatible with both Intel processors and Apple silicon (previous versions supported PowerPC). As a multifunctional tool for maintenance and optimization, it can control many basic Unix programs already built into macOS, including setting hidden preferences otherwise modified by using property list editors and the command line.
OnyX is a popular freeware utility for macOS developed by French developer Joël Barrière that is compatible with both Intel processors and Apple silicon (previous versions supported PowerPC). As a multifunctional tool for maintenance and optimization, it can control many basic Unix programs already built into macOS, including setting hidden preferences otherwise modified by using property list editors and the command line.
== Features == Verify the structure of the file system on the start-up volume Repair disk permissions Configure certain parameters hidden from the system and from certain applications Empty System, User, Internet, Font caches Force Empty the Trash Rebuild Launch Services, CoreDuet database, XPC Cache... Rebuild Spotlight and Mail indexes
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).