Hi all,
Nice support group you have here! Much better than other applications ;-)
I'm a CCleaner newbie and also experiencing Wipe Free Space problem. In my case it is likely HDD related. Before trying CCleaner I was using CyberScrub successfully for several years on a Seagate 120GB. CyberScrub Wipe Free Space never gave a problem during this time.
However, I upgraded to a WD 1TB last week and CyberScrub Wipe Free Space locked up about 2/3rds of the way through and machine posted 'Fatal Error'. After that OS was unstable and I was forced to re-build.
Thinking it was a software issue I downloaded CCleaner and gave it a try. Same problem, (blue screen and drive space lost) but not exectly identical symptems. This time OS is stable, but Defragmenter reports my Freespace is now down to ~500GB; compared to 850GB before running CCleaner Wipe Free Space. Where'd the 0ther 300GB go?? Defragmenter now shows a huge "red' swath of unusable space and will not run anymore. My solution was to (once again) clone my backup drive. All is well for the moment...
In my situation, and since both CyberScrub AND CCleaner Wipe Free Space lock up and crash, I wonder if this is 'Write Cache' related? Can't remember for sure if this feature was enabled on my Seagate but, for sure, it's enabled on the new Western Digital. At this time I'm considering disabling and attempt Wipe Free Space one more time. But, since I've done 2 re-builds in one week, believe I'll hang around the forums to see if Mod's are able to nail it down for sure <GG>
Having used Wipe Free Space for several years, I consider it essential to any disk maintenance utility. IMHO most CCleaner users are probably very happy to have this feature available now.
Those of us who are experiencing problems will eventually discover a solution.
Thanks,
smeck
PS
I have logs from previous crash if developers are interested.
