Yeah you have to play around with the exclusions sometimes as I found out trying to exclude Microsoft Security Essentials signature files download/update folder. It's easier to play around with exclusions by first:
1. Start CCleaner and go into 'Options->Settings->Advanced' and tick the box "Save all settings to INI file", then close CCleaner.
2. Now open the folder where CCleaner is installed and open the settings file "ccleaner.ini" and look for your exclusion which you can then manually play with to see if CCleaner will finally exclude what you want.
Tip:
Sometimes you have to remove these for an exclusion to work: \|*.*
Yeah you have to play around with the exclusions sometimes as I found out trying to exclude Microsoft Security Essentials signature files download/update folder. It's easier to play around with exclusions by first:
1. Start CCleaner and go into 'Options->Settings->Advanced' and tick the box "Save all settings to INI file", then close CCleaner.
2. Now open the folder where CCleaner is installed and open the settings file "ccleaner.ini" and look for your exclusion which you can then manually play with to see if CCleaner will finally exclude what you want.
Tip:
Sometimes you have to remove these for an exclusion to work: \|*.*
No, it has not been corrected. I'm using version 3.07.1457 and the "Exclude" option does NOT exclude files and folders from being deleted. I've tried playing with the INI file as well, with no luck. I'm going to keep trying, but so far, nothing has helped.
I have never seen CCleaner attempt to zap anything on Drive D:\
Is your System drive D:\ ?
What is the CCleaner checkbox which controls whether or not any *.db is cleaned from Drive D:\ ?
No, my D drive is my backup drive. I store videos and stuff like that on it, but when CCleaner is run it also deletes files from that drive. I like to have thumbnail previews of my videos, but when I run CCleaner, it deletes those thumbnails.
There is a thumbnail cache checkbox, but I don't want to disable it because it clears thumbnails on my C drive. I guess I could, but I'd prefer to add an exception to my D drive, rather than deselect the thumbnail option.
Do an "Analyze" only with CCleaner, which will list everything it intends to delete, and you can double click any item to get a detailed view, which will show the paths of the items to be deleted.
As Alan says, CCleaner will not direct itself to a drive other than the System Drive, usually C:\, without being directed there by the user.
Do you have any kind of folder redirects? Have you relocated any of your System Folders to your D:\ drive?
No, my D drive is my backup drive. I store videos and stuff like that on it, but when CCleaner is run it also deletes files from that drive. I like to have thumbnail previews of my videos, but when I run CCleaner, it deletes those thumbnails.
There is a thumbnail cache checkbox, but I don't want to disable it because it clears thumbnails on my C drive. I guess I could, but I'd prefer to add an exception to my D drive, rather than deselect the thumbnail option.
Neither Romko nor yourself have specified your operating system.
This could be relevant, especially if reparse points are involved.
Why do backups go to D:\ ?
System default or your special customisation ?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Disable the thumbnail checkbox and test whether CCleaner still removes those *.db files and report back,
this may indicate if there is some other peculiar effect on your system.
Then you can re-enable if you wish.
I have configured :-
Firefox to always download to E:\Downloads;
Macrium always puts image file backups in E:\Master Images.
and yet CCleaner never looks at E:\ unless I tell it via the special Includes section.
Do you have a special D:\???? includes stipulated ?
My sentiments are basically what Dennis and Alan have stated. If your Windows is installed on drive C:\ along with all your programs CCleaner should never find anything on another hard disk or hard disk partition unless you specifically tell it clean something on them.
On my system it only cleans "Path:\Temp" folders on other drives like "D:\Temp" and "E:\Temp", however I've specifically told it to do so via using and Include, otherwise it would never clean them.
I disabled the thumbnail cache option, and the thumbnails remain, as I knew they would.
I don't know if there is some sort of system re-route to the D drive. If you all are right, there must be, because CCleaner definitely does clean the thumbnail cache on my D drive.
What could I do to determine if the system drive is routing CCleaner to my D drive?