BlueHarvest

Installation

Open the BlueHarvest disk image, and drag “BlueHarvest.app” to your Applications folder. Once copied, double click BlueHarvest in your Apps folder. If your using a version older than v7 you'll need to click the "Turn On" button in the preferences window.

Uninstalling

Choose Quit from the BlueHarvest menu in the menubar (it looks like a tiny hard disk). If the Blueharvest menu isn't in the menubar, double click the BlueHarvest app in the Apps folder and choose Quit from the gear menu in the lower right of the Preferences window. If open, close the BlueHarvest preferences window and then drag BlueHarvest.app to the Trash. If your using a version older than v7 you'll need to click "Turn Off" in the Preferences window first.

BlueHarvest’s Preferences

To change BlueHarvest's preferences, open your applications folder and double click BlueHarvest.

To keep Non Mac Disks clean

To setup BlueHarvest to clean Non Mac disks such as USB disks, digital cameras and music players:

1. Click “Non Mac Disks” from the list.
2. Click “Clean MacOS data” or “Ask what to do” if you want BlueHarvest to ask you whether to clean each disk when connected.

“Non Mac Disks” includes disks formatted using: MS-DOS/FAT, ExFAT and NTFS.

To keep Network Disks clean

To setup BlueHarvest to clean Network Disks such as WebDAV or Windows servers:

1. Click “Network Disks” from the list.
2. Choose “Clean MacOS data” or “Ask what to do” if you want BlueHarvest to ask you whether to clean for each disk when connected.

“Network Disks” include disks connect via: SMB/CIFS, NFS, WebDAV and AFP.
Note: Always contact your network administration before using BlueHarvest with network disks.

To keep a disk or folder clean

To setup BlueHarvest to clean a particular disk or folder:

1. Click Add (+) at the button of the source list on the left.
2. Choose whether you would like the BlueHarvest to ignore or clean these disks/folder.

Cleaning

To clean items, select "Clean Using BlueHarvest" from the BlueHarvet menu in the menubar or, in the Finder, simply Control-click the folder, disk or Zip archive you wish to clean and select “Clean using BlueHarvest” from the menu. This will clean the item according to your current BlueHarvest preferences. When you clean Zip archives, all MacOS specific files are removed from the archive. To have BlueHarvest eject a disk after it has been cleaned hold down the option key when you select “Clean using BlueHarvest”.

Whitelist

To stop BlueHarvest from deleting ._ AppleDouble files for files with a particular extension (e.g jpg), MacOS Type code or to get BlueHarvest to ignore certain folders or volumes click the “Whitelist” button in the lower left of the BlueHarvest preferences.