Yes if you do not allow Wipe to finish (and it "sticks" for many people at 100% but I say just let be be for a while) Wipe Free space will CREATE a file that is the size of the FreeSpace Cleaned
i.e.
User has 100GB of Freespace
User Runs Wipe FreeSpce
User See's that it has been at 100% for 15 min
User get's Angry "Why isn't this finsihed??? {CENSORED} it I'm just going to close CCLEANER
User now has .1 GB freespace and a file that is 99.9GB Large
Look it may say 100% that means the file is made it takes a long time for windows to process the deletion of a 99.9 GB file Much less a bigger one like many of us have with our 320 GB drives or Terebyte Drives
When CCLEANER says that this takes a while It means Leave it alone I left it for Probably 5+ Hours for my 200 GB of freespace and it did fine. When it's done you will still have the SAME amount of freespace you had when you started the Process (in the example if user had let it finish user would STILL have 100GB of freespace)
Developers THIS IS WHY I WAS SOOOOOO AGAINST ADDING THIS TO CCLEANER
So what is the point of the ''FreeSpace'' wipe, if it doesnt do anything at all?
Wipe free space deleted space how do i get it back?
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So what is the point of the ''FreeSpace'' wipe, if it doesnt do anything at all?