session files for chrome, firefox, thunderbird should not defeault to be deleted

[wsmwk]

session files are state data and unrecoverable if deleted for the applications and should absolutely not default to be deleted for chrome, firefox, thunderbird.

 

My firefox session restore data for example can reprepesent days and weeks of work. Loosing it would be terrible. I thought I had removed the ccleaner setting before running it, but now I'm not so sure because later in the day I discovered both sesionrestore.js and sessionrestore.bak were missing for firefox. And I am really upset. But I'm not certain how it got deleted. Still, ccleaner shoudn't default to removing such precious information.

[litlfrog]

I agree completely. I've used CCleaner for years as a quick way to get rid of temp files, cache, and cookies. It frees up hard drive space and can fix a lot of browser performance problems. But I was bitten by this tonight--I didn't realize that getting rid of Saved Sessions was turned on by default. I lost about 20 tabs I was working on and now I have no way of knowing what they were. CCleaner is good at what it does, but stuff like this makes me reluctant to recommend it to friends who aren't techs.

[Winapp2.ini]

I wonder what'd happen if Super Fast lost his Firefox session....

[Alan_B]

For many people sessions history is redundant junk that is not needed if they have set bookmarks to what they need.

 

When you update CCleaner you must expect it to clean deeper into regions it has never cleaned before - otherwise why update it ?

 

I recommend to do an analyze before cleaning - especially when I have updated CCleaner.

Personally I go further :-

I clean with the old version first,

and then run ANALYZE with the latest version of CCleaner to observe how much more it will remove and to consider whether that is good for me.