What is My Family Tree?

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Overview

My Family Tree is published by My. You can find out more about My Family Tree at its official website or at My's website.


How do I clean My Family Tree?

My Family Tree may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space. It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system. The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size. A portable version is also available.

Clean My Family Tree
with AppCleaner

If you want to clean My Family Tree manually, you can follow the steps outlined below. There are two locations in the file system where My Family Tree stores data that can be cleaned.

Files

To clean your file system from files stored by My Family Tree and to gain free disk space, examine the following file system locations. First of all, open a command prompt window:

  • Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
  • Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
  • Type cmd
  • Hit Enter

Now list all the files stored by My Family Tree that can be cleaned:

  1. Type dir /s %LOCALAPPDATA%\My Family Tree\MapCache\*
    • Windows XP: Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\My Family Tree\MapCache\*
  2. Type dir /s %LOCALAPPDATA%\My Family Tree\Temp\*
    • Windows XP: Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\My Family Tree\Temp\*

Once you have identified the files stored by My Family Tree that you want to clean, delete them using the del command or Windows Explorer.

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