[Tracking files not cleared?]

10 minutes ago, RobertK said:

This is essentially the question I started with though I was more concerned with the designation 'Tracking files'. .,,. The second is that Ccleaner does not delete all of these files but only a proportion of them on each run. That seems to me the more likely but I hope some clever soul will find a way to prove or disprove it. If this is so, then why is it so?

I accept the latter and having said that,  why doesn't the cleaner clean them all the first time around? I am sure that when other users run the tracking clean function they believe all is cleaned and do not run it again and again

[Tracking files not cleared?]

I didn’t see/read the answer I was hoping for.

I ran CClean Professional

Response:

1,234 tracking files removed; x amount of file space

I ran it again:

86 tracking files removed; xx amount of free space

I ran it again:

3 tracking files removed; xx amount of free space

Why did I have to run and rerun the cleaner to get all of the tracking files removed?

Why didn’t it clean all the tracking files the first time around?

Maybe government tracking files only get cleaned if you run it four (4) time in a row?