UninstalItems.log in c:\temp with ccleaner 5.63

[liamZ]

Hi, I'm using portable version of ccleaner 5.63 and I noticed that whenever there is a temp folder on c:\

ccleaner creates this file c:\temp\UninstalItems.log when using the tools\uninstall section.

If there is no c:\temp folder, it does not create the file in any place in the drive.

Thanks.

[hazelnut]

See here

https://forum.piriform.com/topic/55635-bug-in-v562/?tab=comments#comment-310985

 

[liamZ]

Hi, thanks for answering, lets hope they will resolve it in the next version.

[Crni]

Unfortunately, this still hasn't been resolved.

The referenced topic was closed with this comment:

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It's not a bug... It generates the text file for the Uninstall window, without it. There would be no Uninstall in Tools.

Either this IS a bug and it was NOT intended for that file to be generated there, OR this IS a bug and that file should ALWAYS be generated to C:\Temp\UninstalItems.log as it "fails" to be generated if there is NO C:\Temp\ folder.

This is happening even though both %TEMP% and %TMP% are pointing to the default %localappdata%\Temp which resolves to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\ and yet, this is NOT where this file gets generated.

If the file is needed, it should be temporarily saved into %localappdata%\Temp and deleted after it's not needed anymore. It should not be saved into C:\Temp
If this file is not needed, then the file probably shouldn't be saved anywhere, and any and all of its details can be held in memory. After a while going back to that tab would require refreshing its data anyway, so pulling outdated file would be useless anyway.

So one way or another this is a bug.

[Andavari]

It's been that way for umpteen years. I agree it should go into a user temp folder, one that CCleaner is capable of deleting the contents of to self-clean and get rid of it's own temporary creation.