MarkJL Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Lately, I have found that CCleaner seems to NOT clean the subfolders in the %TEMP% folder, even if it is "Included". It used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted July 3, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 3, 2018 Works for me, did you make sure the 24hours setting hasn't been turned on in ccleaner settings? ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted July 3, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 3, 2018 Works for me. what version are you using? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJL Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 V5.43.6520 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJL Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 Some files & folders were from last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted July 3, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 3, 2018 40 minutes ago, MarkJL said: Some files & folders were from last year. Are they in use? ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted July 3, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 3, 2018 can you provide the Temp folder (and subfolders) name, and the INCLUDE ? does it work if you reboot the PC in Safe Mode? what if, say, you use CC v5.40 (available from FileHippo)? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJL Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Nergal said: Are they in use? No. They haven't been in use for months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted July 4, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 4, 2018 Can you delete the directly (click in explorer and delete)? (this will help making sure it's not a permissions flaw) Are you skiping uac in ccleaner's options? ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJL Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 On 7/3/2018 at 17:18, mta said: can you provide the Temp folder (and subfolders) name, and the INCLUDE ? does it work if you reboot the PC in Safe Mode? what if, say, you use CC v5.40 (available from FileHippo)? Sorry for the delay in responding. Life got in the way. I tried this on 2 machines: #1: "C:\Temp" and #2: "C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Temp" I just noticed that on the machine where %TEMP% points to "C:\Temp", "C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Temp" has files from 2016. Have not Safe Moded. Just tried v5.41. It may have cleaned "C:\Temp", but not "C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Temp". I see that there is a new version. Just installed 5.46 -- same thing -- neither "C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Temp" nor %TEMP ("C:\Temp") get cleaned. If I "Include" (under "Options") %TEMP%, the folder ("C:\Temp") does get cleaned. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted September 4, 2018 Moderators Share Posted September 4, 2018 in CC, Options, Advanced - do you have both the Only delete....older than 24 hours boxes NOT ticked? may explain the current stuff, but not the stuff from 2016. but that could be because you changed the TEMP environment variable away from the default and 1) CC no longer looks there and 2) there may be nothing in there that triggers CC to remove it, like TMP or LOG files. manually delete that folder and start from there and see what accumulates. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJL Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 "Only delete files in Windows temp folders older than 24 hours" is checked. Maybe CC should look at %TEMP% since that is what most programs use. %TEMP% ("C:\Temp") had many TMP and LOG files, and many older than a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trium Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 17 hours ago, MarkJL said: If I "Include" (under "Options") %TEMP%, the folder ("C:\Temp") does get cleaned. ... c:\temp ... is not the default folder in Windows and usually no folder with this path, only you have it created and set manually to you mean c:\windows\temp? Quote If I "Include" (under "Options") %TEMP%, the folder ("C:\Temp") does get cleaned. good to read :-) Versions of CCleaner Cloud; Introduction Ccleaner Cloud; Ccleaner-->System-Requirements; Ccleaner FAQ´s; Ccleaner builds; Scheduling Ccleaner Free Es ist möglich, keine Fehler zu machen und dennoch zu verlieren. Das ist kein Zeichen von Schwäche. Das ist das Leben -> "Picard" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted September 4, 2018 Moderators Share Posted September 4, 2018 I change my USER and SYSTEM %temp% and %tmp% variables and CC cleans them fine. untick those 24 hour boxes to allow CC to clean more recent files. for the two %temp% and %tmp% folders, CC will remove all contents regardless, for other folders it only removes files that meet its criteria; like tmp, log, wer files etc. so your %temp% files probably have stuff left because your 24 hours box is ticked. and your original %temp% folder (c:\users\xxx\appdata\local\temp) still has contents because, despite the name, it is now just a 'normal' folder and will only get cleansed for those file type that trigger CC's rules. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJL Posted September 5, 2018 Author Share Posted September 5, 2018 Tirum: "... c:\temp ... is not the default folder in Windows and usually no folder with this path, only you have it created and set manually" Correct. "to you mean c:\windows\temp?" No. mta: " I change my USER and SYSTEM %temp% and %tmp% variables and CC cleans them fine." Mine don't. " untick those 24 hour boxes to allow CC to clean more recent files. " I only want the older files deleted. There are .tmp files in both places from 2016 -- they remain. "for the two %temp% and %tmp% folders, CC will remove all contents regardless, for other folders it only removes files that meet its criteria; like tmp, log, wer files etc. so your %temp% files probably have stuff left because your 24 hours box is ticked. and your original %temp% folder (c:\users\xxx\appdata\local\temp) still has contents because, despite the name, it is now just a 'normal' folder and will only get cleansed for those file type that trigger CC's rules." See above. At may now be a normal folder, but it is a common Windows "temp" folder, which, actually (based on the dates), some programs still use! I think these are things that might make CCleaner better. Thank you all for your interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted September 5, 2018 Moderators Share Posted September 5, 2018 Perhaps the CCleaner settings are corrupt. You could try to remedy it by opening CCleaner and going into 'Options > Advanced' and click 'Restore default settings'. Note that doing that will perform a "factory reset" meaning you will lose all of the changes you've made in CCleaner. If 'Restore default settings' doesn't fix it perhaps uninstall CCleaner, restart Windows, and then install CCleaner again. That would perform a clean install which will also fix any corrupt CCleaner settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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