Delete .ini file issue

[nukecad]

Arghh!

 

When answering a query from a poster I set the 'Save to INI' to check out just how it works.

 

So once I'd done that I deleted the CCleaner.ini

 

And then found that everything had been reset to default, including my Cookies to keep, my ticked options for general cleaning, and even the registry cleaning option. (which I don't much use but still).

 

If CC can keep my settings when I'm not using 'Save to INI' why does it junk them when I have used it and then deleted the .ini file?

 

OK, it's not something that you will do often, but perhaps the 'Check for ini' routine (I'm assuming) could be changed to keep the last settings if the .ini is not found?

[Nergal]

Yes, what you should have done was simply uncheck save to ini file, then it would have place your settings back into the registry. Save setting to ini is the first step toward portability or allowing multiple users to use the same settings. It transfers settings from the user's registry (hkcu) to a file. Depending on your os, shadow copy (for the ini)or system restore (for the registry) may retrieve your settings, but I would not wager on it.

[nukecad]

I didn't even try to recover the previous settings, it didn't take long to put them back to how I want them, cookies to keep took the longest of course.

 

I was just having a winge,

I had not expected that Ccleaner would 'factory reset' itself just because it could not find the ini file, I had assumed it would keep the settings it already had.

 

Oh well, my own stupid fault for making assumptions.