CCleaner and Mapped Drives

CCleaner for Windows
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Running Win10 x64 and I have several mapped drives to my NAS. I've setup CCleaner to 'clean' the recycle bin of the mapped drives, but it doesn't appear the app is doing so. Any ideas?

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G'day tobie and welcome to the forums.

what NAS system do you use?

and how have you told CC to clean it's recycle bin?

most NAS boxes don't show a Recycle Bin folder due to them not running a Windows OS and the file system they use and the RAID configuration.

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Hi MTA -

Thanks for the reply.

I have a QNAP NAS.

In CCleaner, under Options -->Include, I've mapped to the folder containing the "@recycle"

Thanks again for your help.

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I recall (hopefully correctly) that CC cannot access mapped drives, so that could well be your issue.

In fact if you go to Options, Include, Add then Browse, mapped drives don't show up.

Did you add them straight into the .INI file?

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No - I haven't tried adding these paths to the INI file. Is there a certain way this should be done?

Thanks again for the help!

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if mapped drives aren't accessible from CC then you are up the proverbial creek, paddle or not.