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Thetbone

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  1. I asked. Here's where it is stored: Google Chrome records Web storage data in a SQLite file in the user's profile. The subfolder containing this file is "\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage" on Windows So how is CCleaner's analyze system or the Chrome shut down system pre-emptively clearing this user data? I was under the impression no files should be deleted before choosing for it to "make it better", but this is file data stored on my hard drive that for some reason is getting wiped before the clean. I've since rebuilt the data, so I'm not sure how much of this user data folder was wiped. My initial guess was that CCleaner marked and locked the files it had scheduled to wipe. I then revisited the website before exiting the program, so it couldn't access the data and, thus, rewrote it? And then when I did exit out of CCleaner, the file was already there so...yeah, I'm not sure what would happen to the "locked" data at that point. This is just a guess - just trying to help narrow it down. I'm kinda paranoid to use CCleaner at this point considering it's ability to wipe data without me agreeing to it.
  2. The data for the game was still saved within the game. It just took a few hours to transfer that information back to the website again. The site also has a function to save the data as a json file, but I hadn't done a manual backup in a few months so my data had changed too much since my last save. From the FAQ on their Discord: I guess I was wrong about it being stored in cookies. Sorry about that. My next question is what is localStorage and why does Health Check clear that when analyzing, which is what I assumed happened? Here's what I found about it if it helps.
  3. It prompted it needed to close Chrome. I can't remember if I manually closed Chrome and then hit OK or just let it close it by hitting OK, but it did not have to do a force close. As I got to the final step where two steps were checked and two were locked behind the paywall, I realized I should backup the data on the site (here: https://frzyc.github.io/genshin-optimizer/#/ ), so I re-opened Chrome which automatically restores all my tabs (I do this daily). When I navigated to this tab, however, my data was already missing/wiped. I refreshed a few times with no luck. I went back to CCleaner and clicked into the first tab and unchecked everything hoping that would "release" the file but no luck. Finally I backed out of Health Check using a back arrow I believe (I'm afraid to go through the steps again because I've spent a few hours re-building my data on that site and don't want to risk it again). I kept refreshing the page and closing and re-opening Chrome hoping it would restore. I completely exited out of CCleaner and still no luck. Then I updated to the most recent version when I restarted and still no luck. This site was working earlier in the day. The data was gone after CCleaner closed Chrome, as far as I can tell. Nothing else I did that day was different than any other day, so I can confidently rule out Chrome doing something weird or some other program or some weird update other than CCleaner.
  4. Thanks for your reply. 1. I did NOT hit "Make It Better". This is the point where I opened Chrome back up to try and save some settings and noticed it had already been removed. I then backed out of the Health Check and never hit "Make It Better". 2. I close out of Chrome daily and restart my computer ever so often with no issues of anything being cleared. This happened after CCleaner prompted to close Chrome in order to analyze. 3. I have the Free version - I do not have Pro. "Enable Smart Cleaning" is checked but "automatic browser cleaning" is locked behind pro. Is this a bug? What is going on here? I'm now afraid to even open CCleaner as I'm not sure what prompted the clearing of my cookies when I never actually followed through with the clean-up.
  5. I was trying to free up some disk space and decided to use health check. I got to the page where you can click each thing it's going to do and check or uncheck it. I decided to open up Chrome again to manually save some settings before continuing and to my surprise my cookies had ALREADY been deleted! I had not followed through with the Health Check yet! I had only analyzed and not actually cleaned! What is going on?? Where was the cookie file placed? How do I retrieve it? I had important data stored as a cookie on a website and now it's all gone.
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