Temp Drive Problem

CCleaner for Windows
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Hello,

I have my windows temp drive in d:\Temp\Windows\

I also set the USER DEFINED environment variables TEMP and TMP to this folder.

And I also set the SYSTEM VARIABLES TEMP and TMP to this folder.

CCleaner has a strange behavior.

After analyzing my system CCleaner reports about 100 MB to be deleted.

After a second analysis CCleaner just finds one or two MB.

If I clean the directory instead of doing a second analysis, then also one or two MB are deleted.

At the moment I have 145 MB in that folder.

If I count the folders that are older than today (yesterday or older) I have 141 MB.

If I make an analysis, CCleaner finds 0 bytes.

After I had such bad results, I manually added the directory (d:\Temp\Windows\*.*) to the "Include" list.

Here the scan "Custom files and folders" only cleans 22 MB.

A folder being 2 days old is not deleted.

Here I have some questions:

Why does CCleaner report more files at the first scan than at the second scan?

Why does CCleaner not find any file although it it the "official" TEMP directory of windows?

Why did I have to add the folder manually although it is the "official" TEMP directory of windows?

Why are in the "Custom files and folders" scan only 22 MB removed (today is the 24th of May, one folder containing 120 MB are from 22th of may)?

Why are empty folders (folders containing 0 files) not removed in this directory (they are from 17th of May, 21st of May, 23rd of May and of today)?

I have Windows XP Professional SP3 and work as Administrator.

If you need any other information about my system, please ask.

Greetings

OLLI

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What date are you looking at when saying the file is older than 24 hours? IIRC CCleaner goes by the last access date, not creation date. You could always just untick the option "Only delete temp files older than 24 hours" if they bother you that much

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Hello,

today is the 30th of may.

I started CCleaner (the actual version, use the auto update feature).

The folder d:\Temp\Windows\ is added manually to the "Include" list.

Yes, the section "Custom files and folders" in the tree is checked.

After cleaning my computer, there are still files in that directory.

There is one folder from 22th of may that contains 120 MB.

This folder is older than 7 days.

So, why is this folder not removed?

Greetings

OLLI

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why is this folder not removed?

Picking up on that comment, did you select "Include files AND subfolders" from the dropdown list when adding it to the include list? (or "Include files and subfolders and the folder itself" if you want the containing folder removed too)