Safety Model
How ZaynCleaner keeps your files safe
A cleaner should never surprise you. These are the rules it follows.
Only what the scan found
Clean removes only paths listed by the scan, and only the ones you leave ticked. It never deletes by pattern or wildcard at clean time.
A second check before every removal
Right before deleting, each path is checked again. It must be a full path that still exists, with no .. in it, and it can never be:
//System/Library/Applications/Users/usr/private/Volumes
…or your home folder itself. A path that fails is skipped and reported. The Mole engine applies its own protection rules and your protected paths when it builds the list.
Where things go
Uninstall → Trash
Uninstalling an app moves the app and its files to the Trash.
Analyze → Trash
Move to Trash in Analyze and AI Tool Cleanup does exactly that.
Clean → removed
Clean removes cache files permanently, because caches are rebuilt automatically. It confirms first.
Your protected paths
In Settings you can add folders that must never be cleaned. They're stored in the same whitelist file the Mole engine uses, so the rule applies everywhere.
Nothing leaves your Mac
ZaynCleaner has no analytics, no telemetry and no account. File lists and sizes stay on your Mac.
Keep backups
Cache files are deleted permanently. Keep regular backups, for example with Time Machine, like you would with any tool that removes files.