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A refinement to this suggestion: that the filepath for those items the names of which are displayed be parsed and then displayed as indented, multi-line entries in the progress window. Some filepaths are extremely long and eliding one or another part of the middle of the filepath - either toward the 'root' of the part of the file system being treated, or nearer the filename - is a partial solution to the problem of displaying a useful quantum of information on progress, but it can be a bit hard to follow visually when the ellipsis is jumping around. Having a multi-line, indented display would make it easier to follow the work being done (by location in the tree) and would mean requiring the program to update one or two (occasionally three or more) shorter lines of text in the progress window. Given the likelihood that only a sample of the filenames are being displayed anyway, it seems there would be enough head-room to allow for such a multi-level display without affecting the speed of the program, if at all...

Certainly one factor that is contributing to the deletion taking so much time - it's still going on, and probably won't complete before tomorrow at this time - is that there are tens of Gigs of data in that folder. How? Why? I don't know, but I would certainly like to. Such a large volume suggests a run-away process, no? From what I've seen, many - if not most - of the files currently in the Temporary Internet Files sub-folder are .asmx files, which I understand means that they're 'web services'. Who, or what, creates them in such large numbers? Why? What are they, and what are they for? Checking the IE settings mentioned (directly, in Internet Options, from within IE, because I've deleted the desktop shortcut) shows that only 8 Megs - apparently the minimum - were allocated to keeping the History for IE. This is now at 32. This suggests that the files aren't being put there by IE - assuming that it's respecting its settings. I suspected that the AV would slow things down considerably, but I'm not the only user, so left it running; I doubt that it would be wise to turn it off if the machine remains connected, and even if I unplugged the machine, the next user might well come along and simply re-plug the cable, which could be disastrous if the AV is inactive.

I can well imagine they will; this one has been running for a good few hours and is about a fifth of the way through the process (judging by the drive's properties and changes to them over that time). So, I'm guessing that the progress reported includes only a sampling of the filenames. I'm doing this operation on the "Temporary Internet Files" (in Local Settings), and this folder alone represents the clear majority of the used space on the drive. I'd like to know: is this typical? How temporary is "Temporary"? What are the limits to this folder's size/growth?

I'm currently running CCleaner over an extremely large folderful of files (Temporary Internet Files) and am wondering whether the text accompanying the repeating progress bar in that window CCleaner is using includes display of all, and only, the files that are processed. Put another way, there being potentially thousands or tens of thousands of files in the folder and its sub-folders, does CCleaner display only a sampling of the filenames it deals with, or is it providing an exhaustive listing (i.e. the name of every single file treated)? I ask because... if it's exhaustive, then the process will never complete. At least not in my lifetime. On a related note... perhaps in the next rev. that window displaying the progress of operations could provide a bit more feedback than a repeating progress bar and some text e.g. a cumulative count of files deleted, or a countdown from a known number of files present in that part of the filesystem being treated, or some estimate of the time remaining, or some indication of how much room has been freed up by the files already deleted in the process... And if the filename display includes only a sampling of the files being treated, perhaps a periodic indication that that's what's happening.