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I have my OS on my SSD but I also have two other HHD I want CCleaner to go over. I go into include and choose my E drive and it says "for system safety reason you cannot select this specific location." any idea why this is happening?

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you can't simple state a Drive without a folder as well.

 

Including E:\ isn't allowed.

Including E:\MyStuff is allowed.

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I believe so.

you could try to reduce the amount of folders to make that easier, like whack everything under one, generic folder name.

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If you included a drive, or all the folders on a drive, isn't that erasing all the data from the drive? If that's what you want why not use Drive Wiper?

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You have to input specific folders for it to clean, such as E:\Temp

 

Trying to input just E:\ would tell it to delete everything on the drive, which is why it won't let you do that to protect you from making a disastrous mistake.

 

Think of it sort of like a batch file, where you have to tell it specifically where you want it to delete something, but unlike a batch file that will happily nuke everything on a secondary drive CCleaner won't.

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If you included a drive, or all the folders on a drive, isn't that erasing all the data from the drive? If that's what you want why not use Drive Wiper?

 

Trying to input just E:\ would tell it to delete everything on the drive, which is why it won't let you do that to protect you from making a disastrous mistake.

 

I'm confused... :blink:

Why have we started talking about erasing, wiping and deleting everything???

What am I missing here?  The OP was just trying to add an INCLUDE in CCleaner and asking why he got an error when adding an entry at the drive level, in his case, E:\

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Oh OK, I took your phrasing of "all your data on the drive would be deleted" too literally.

You mean just your junk, crap files that are normally covered by CC.

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I don't know what the OP wants, but including at the drive letter level would mean that every single file on that drive, junk or irreplacable, would be deleted.

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Oh OK, I took your phrasing of "all your data on the drive would be deleted" too literally.

You mean just your junk, crap files that are normally covered by CC.

 

If CCleaner allowed it and it doesn't everything on the drive that could be deleted (except for locked files such as System Volume Information) would be deleted. Some cleaning tools don't offer that protection!

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