[Change to Secure File Delete]

mta made a great guess. Don't know when it started, but El Capitan is the first OS I know of that denies use of Secure Erasing.

I do wish Piriform, Apple and other developers would make it an option for all the people that use HDDs. We have to find third party applications that will perform this action. 

Do like mta says happens on PCs with a big warning. Not a big fan of SSDs.  Waiting for the next great recording medium. 

[Erase Freespace ELIMINATING all available space?]

Like This is disabled.

 

That would be a good reason I couldn't use it.

More Options is working again too. And obviously Post is too.

 

Thanks kroozer.

[CCleaner for Mac (Final Build) will not start]

Just tried the new version and it works fine on my late 2009 Mini with 10.6.8.

 

Thank you Piriform.

[Erase Freespace ELIMINATING all available space?]

To imthatguy and kroozer,

I found out the answer to this from a moderator named DennisD. He said it does the same thing on Windows, though, I've never noticed that.

So I downloaded the new stable version today and ran it. Cleaned out some things and got back a few GBs and then I let the Erase Free Space run and finish. Took about 30 minutes. When it finishes the free space comes back.

I did Not get back the free space I lost by stopping the procedure on the earlier run. Don't know where it is.

 

And I still couldn't give a Like This to DennisD since the button still tells me I have reached my quota for positive votes. I still haven't given any, but that's how it works.

 

Now the More Reply Options is not working. Connection closed by remote server. Post is not working either. Copy, paste to Bean and try later.

[Erasing free space Losing free space]

Okay. Downloaded new, stable release, after renaming beta to keep it in case of need.

Thanks to DennisD's mention of how Wipe Free Space works on Windows, I tried it again and let it finish. Worked fine.

Didn't get back the 15GB that went somewhere with the first try using the beta and stopping it before it was finished though. Wonder where that is?

 

Through cleaning, I did get back 4 GB.

Would like to know where to look for that file. Time to start investigating.

[Erasing free space Losing free space]

Hello Dennis,

I just posted again, a reply to another Mac user with the same issue, with some errors in my specs but can't delete nor edit. I didn't see this reply nor got an email notice that there was one. So my apologies for my reply delay and the errors in the other post's numbers.

 

I'll try this one more time and allow it to finish, as I have Not gotten back the free space this time after three reboots. 15GBs is a lot to lose this time.

 

I'll post again when CCleaner has finished and all is well. Or not well.

 

Thanks for your input and time,

BD

[Erase Freespace ELIMINATING all available space?]

I got ccleaner earlier today and kicked off the "Erase Free Space" process on my Mac with the "Zero Out" option, then went my merry way. I had almost 1TB of free (available) space on my "iMac" volume according to the Finder.

 

I got home tonight and there's less than 100GB free space left on that volume and it's just going down down down (albeit slowly) with the "Securely erasing file" message sitting in the "Details" window. I did click "Stop" and then shut down the Mac and started it up again hoping that the mystery "large files" mentioned in another post would be gone, but they're not and I'm down to literally ~20GB as I write this.

 

Starting ccleaner again and the "Erase Free Space" process again is just continuing to slowly drop my available space down, so I'm a bit panicked that it's going to hit some minimum threshold and my computer is just going to barf.

 

Where are these temporary (I sure hope they're temporary) files that it's creating to then get rid of? At what point do I get back my ~1TB of free space I had BEFORE using this product? So far, NOT a happy camper!!!

 

Same problem.

Last time I tried it, it left me with 25MB when I stopped it. Somehow after restarting I got my free space back. I tried it again two days ago and it ate 15GBs of free space before I stopped it. I've restarted my Mac Mini 2.26GHz 10.6.8, three times and the 15GBs have not come back.

 

It sure would be nice to hear from someone that develops this product as to why this happens.

Free utilities are highly appreciated as long as they do no harm.

 

I've installed and used, often, CCleaner on friend's Windows machines when doing maintenance without a problem. So I had hoped for the same with the Mac version.

 

As a side note, I logged in and clicked the Like This button next to the OPs post and it told me there was an error. I had reached my quota for the day. Really? None? That's the quota? The thumb link in the second post does not work. At least on Opera it doesn't. Maybe that's the reason for the Like This Error too. Not interested in checking to see if it's browser related when Opera is the 2nd oldest browser still in wide use.

[Erasing free space Losing free space]

Hello,

I tried CCleaner for Mac a couple days ago.

Tried because I've had good results using it on friend's Windows machines.

The cleaner worked fine, as hoped for. Gave me back a bit over a gig.

Went to erase free space and watched my free space disappearing by the gigabytes. Waited until 25 GBs were gone and stopped the process. Sort of alarmed at the loss of that amount of space I sought info on it. None.

After looking around my machine for the "lost" space, I finally rebooted and it mostly came back, just shy about 1.25 GBs.

 

Just wondering where this goes and why there is no documentation that this is going to happen and don't worry, it will come back after restart?

 

So I have no idea where that 1.25 GBs went or what would happen if I let it continue erasing free space. Nor do I know anything about how much free space was erased.

 

Just needing some information on the Erase Free Space option.

 

Thanks for your attention to this issue.