drewan

File associations are fine for them (like a word doc is called a word doc and word is what opens it, even though no content shows, just empty pages, despite the kb size of the file). Well I thought I dragged it but it never got rid of where it was. I know there are times when a drag is a move but also times when it is a copy, and it didn't move, it took some time indeed seemingly copying to make temporary files to burn, and a path was given for them, not the original path on the desktop. Somehow there was still some kind of connection that caused ccleaner to corrupt the original files after the temporary to-burn files were deleted, and that should not have happened. Also, I have not made other partitions, so I don't think that is involved. I don't see any response from CCleaner people that they will fix this bug or anything, so I will leave it at this and limit my use and recommendation of the program. Okay, thank you to those who responded.

Thank you for replying. I have most of the stuff on a flash drive, just not all of it, like the most recent things. Recuva says it is for deleted files. These files were never deleted. They are right there. They were never put into recycling bin either to begin with. They are there but corrupted. "a redirected view of the originals ... reparse point / Junction / Symlink" = Sounds possible and certainly nothing I should have known to think about. I never deleted these folders/files. They were right there on the desktop and still are. Then ccleaner damaged them when it never should have touched them. Even if this is a bug in windows, CCleaner must make sure it does not do this and should also report this to Microsoft and tell microsoft they must fix this bug in their OS. If this is an issue with such a known bug, CCleaner should have been programmed to not do such a thing. The end result was that using CCleaner destroyed things it had no right to touch, and that means it cannot be trusted to run on my system! This bug needs to be fixed.

SERIOUS BUG CORRUPTED FILES THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TOUCHED! Windows 7, 64-bit. 4GB ram, Core I5. CCleaner v2.36.1233 What I did: 1. I stuck a cd in the drive and selected a folder on my computer that had many things in it, including sub-folders, to "burn to the cd using windows explorer". I dragged it into the to-burn window that windows brought up. The folder I selected had many photos in it, also some word docs and excel files, some movies, some txt files, some adobe pdf files. The very many photos all had thumnail pics showing what they were, and the files worked. I could open them. 2. It ended up being too much to fit on the cd when I checked the size total, so I canceled the attempt for then. 3. After that, Windows kept telling me there were files waiting to be burned. It had copied the files into some temporary place, and in the window, it said they were waiting to be burned. I deleted them from waiting to be burned, since I was not going to do that now until I could get a dvd. 4. Soon after that I used ccleaner. It said recycling bin had stuff in it, including the temporary files that had been waiting for burning. Part of the directory I remember ccleaner showing from the recycling bin was "...burn/burn/all shore" ("all shore" being the main folder with all the other stuff in it. The original "all shore" was and is still on the desktop, and so clearly was not the location ccleaner was to touch). It was taking a long time, and I realized it was set for 35 passes, so I canceled and reset it lower, then ran it again. It almost finished, when I had to leave, so I canceled for then. 5. I came back and I went into the all shore folder on the desktop to check something. I found the files all corrupted!!!! Only the last few it had not finished wiping from the totally other location could be opened. All the thumbnail preview images were gone, and I tried various picture programs to open the files, and they cannot open them, say they are corrupted or too big. The word docs, excel files, txt., open to blank content. Adobe can't open its file there, either. The movies also are corrupted. 6. I finished running the ccleaner, and that wiped out the few remaining files I had been able to access. Those were not the important ones anyway, and I was hoping that maybe if the process finished, if ccleaner was somehow holding onto them all somehow so they could not open, then it might let go and then they would all work. Obviously, that isn't what happened: They are all corrupted, even after restarting the computer. This proved that CCleaner clearly was the cause of the destruction! THIS MUST BE A SERIOUS BUG THAT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN! The original files still show as being there, but they are all corrupted or wiped somehow so nothing shows! Windows shows what seem to be the orginal byte sizes on the files, as the sizes have not become zero and seem reasonably sized. There is no reason CCleaner should have touched these original files!!!! I even saw the paths it was showing and they were not to that location! And the files are there, corrupted, not deleted. Is there any way to undo what ccleaner has done to this big archive I was planning on backing up so as not to lose? Please tell me how to restore them! They were not in any path ccleaner was told by me to touch, but it somehow ruined them anyway! Please respond, thank you! These are important files with a lot of important info on them!