djc

> I assume that only 3 items are lost from your "Bookmarks ToolBar"... Not so: it's everything *from* PK onwards, including things originally visible clicking the guillemet at the right. PK is the "certain bookmark", and it refers to a local file (e.g., H:\DJC\Firefox\PK.html). The blacked-out areas are, as you guessed, omitted for privacy on a public forum. > Does corruption of your "Bookmarks ToolBar" affect only your browser > display? > Is the removal of those three things the only damage that you can see > when inspecting the contents of BOOKMARKS / ORGANISE BOOKMARKS? As I wrote in the opening note, "Viewed with 'Show all bookmarks' the bookmarks are still present, but corrupted"; for instance, PK "has no properties and cannot be removed or moved" (I can later post a snap of that, but I obviously can't run ccleaner on Firefox while writing this). So the bug isn't a simple matter of removing bookmarks: they're removed from view in the toolbar *and* their properties are changed, while still somehow existing in bookmark limbo in places.sqlite. > Have you tried adding a local file as a Bookmark on your Toolbar and then > using Firefox's built in History clearing to see if that removes the > bookmark from the toolbar? Yes: PK. It doesn't. Why would a browser do that? It's a legitimate bookmark. djc

For completeness: at 20:04:17::109 above, "*DJC Mozilla Firefox" is [*DJC Mozilla Firefox] LangSecRef=3022 DetectFile=%programfiles%\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe Default=true FileKey1=%programfiles%\mozilla firefox|install.log FileKey2=%programfiles%\mozilla firefox|license.* FileKey3=%programfiles%\mozilla firefox|readme.* FileKey4=%programfiles%\mozilla\firefox\crash reports|*.* FileKey5=h:\djc\firefox\adblockplus|patterns-backup*.ini djc

That's my Mozilla thread, thanks -- I'm djcm. As you can see there, the only possibly helpful information is what I stated above: that download manager history has recently been added to places.sqlite, which also houses bookmarks. If the other comments there are helpful for debugging, that's just fine. (I can't imagine how, though.) Debug output below is from a run a few minutes ago which, as earlier, corrupted the Firefox bookmarks toolbar just as depicted in the snapshots I posted above, so I won't repost screenshots. So what else could I add that would help isolate the problem? djc [20:03:57::406][iNFO ] CCleaner v4.01.4093 [20:03:57::406][iNFO ] MS Windows XP Professional SP3 [20:03:57::406][iNFO ] Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.60GHz [20:03:57::406][iNFO ] 2.0GB RAM [20:03:57::406][iNFO ] Intel 82865G Graphics Controller [20:03:57::406][iNFO ] Username: djc [20:03:57::406][iNFO ] Application Started [20:03:57::406][ERROR] Error loading branding.dll - 0x490: Element not found. 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I can reproduce the problem consistently with my setup (FF 20.0.1 EN and ccleaner 4.01), and I'll consider providing my files to a qualified developer if it'll help resolve the bug. There's no point linking to the Firefox forum discussion: it adds nothing to what's already in this thread. djc

In the Firefox user forum where I asked about this, I was informed that download history has recently been moved to the same database that holds other places, including bookmarks; so code that affects download history definitely has the potential to affect bookmarks.

Further testing shows that this corruption happens when Download History is selected for Firefox in the Applications tab. In my test it was the only option selected. It doesn't happen when only Internet Cache, Internet History, or Cookies are selected. I hope this is helpful.

Firefox 20.0.1 with no syncing, WinXP SP3: ccleaner 4.01 corrupts the bookmarks toolbar, making all bookmarks from a certain one -- a reference to a local file -- disappear from view in the toolbar. Viewed with "Show all bookmarks" they are still present, but the "certain one" has no properties and cannot be removed or moved. I've run a differential test for this and I have screen snaps to support it, below. (1) With nothing else running, before running ccleaner everything is present and working from a backed-up copy of my entire Firefox setup. (2) I run ccleaner while Firefox is running, but tell ccleaner not to close Firefox and clean it, then immediately after ccleaner close Firefox and reopen it. Everything is still correct. (3) I then exit Firefox and run ccleaner, cleaning Firefox, then immediately re-enter Firefox, and the bookmarks toolbar is corrupt as described. ccleaner seems clearly to be the cause of the corruption.

To answer my own question: yes, ccleaner does accept wildcards within paths for FileKey entries in winapp2.ini. Outstanding!

Each update of a certain software creates files %ProgramFiles%\Package\[version number]\Resources\*.qdu and I'd like a single rule in winapp2.ini to delete those *.bin even when the version number changes.??Can I, for instance, use FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\Package\*\Resources|*.qdu Or how?

This did the trick. Thanks a million! djc

I'm surprised this has gotten no notice. It's a pretty gross fault. djc

It appears that ccleaner 2.16 won't remove a directory with "$" in its name, even when I specify it specifically for inclusion and it appears correctly in the .INI file. Files within the directory are deleted, but not the directory itself. I first noticed this with UltraISO's working directory %TEMP%\Ultra$ISO but have since checked it with other directories whose names contain "$". It won't delete them. (It apparently will delete individual files with "$" in their names, however.) Known bug? Workaround? Thanks. Pete