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Adnavari, I know the defragger can be auto set up...but this was done immediately after about 40,000 files, including some that were rather large, were deleted by someone who "opened" the program - not automatic.

None of the post replies here are going to be used in court or in court filings in any fashion. I'm just trying to make sure I am correct about CCleaner. I do suspect there are ways to get the program to delete files that it normally wouldn't, such as putting in Temp folder - but I'm pretty sure that's going to be only done by someone who knows what they're doing.

Yeah, this is helpful...the lack of understanding by the court and attorneys involved is the problem. An expert testified CCleaner was run by initiation rather than by calendar, and about 34,000 files were deleted, but they never got into the "types" of files. As temporary files were deleted every day, the court saw no difference in the calendar cleaning in days prior and the "initiated" cleaning...even when it was then followed by someone running a defrag - which to us is an obvious step in coverup, but to them didn't mean anything.

Nukcad - thank you, this is exactly what I thought - but it is hard to explain to older lawyers and judges. It does appear the "computer forensics expert", an ex-cop, was more knowledgeable about how to find hidden files than in how the "cleaner" programs work.

Agree with your analysis, though I'm of course not trying to get a legal perspective...I'm trying to verify that CCleaner cannot be set by an average user to, on a calendar basis, erase files such as .doc and .pdf, etc. I imagine someone knowledgeable could do it, somehow, setting the software to clean out a certain folder - but not an average user.

I'm an attorney defending a client. Plaintiff was ordered to preserve her files in her laptop. The same day, 41,000 files are deleted from the laptop. Plaintiff claims her calendared cleanup (CCleaner software) removed those files - even though only a few hundred were deleted in the calendared cleanup on a daily average in the weeks prior. More telling is that she claims her Word and email files were deleted in the calendared cleanup. We claim she did a wipe, but she denies it, says she deleted nothing on purpose. Court agreed it's "possible" those 41,000 files were just deleted in the calendared cleanup. Question: Is it possible for calendared cleanup to delete .doc and email files? Even using the most professional version?