Wisewiz Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 My FF cache folder is where it's supposed to be in XP SP3, not in a custom location. CC finds it with no trouble, but deletes the whole cache folder, not just the contents. FF is slow to start the next time I launch it. The first thing it does is create the new cache folder. Is there a setting (I'm just getting started today with CC, and love it, but have lots to learn) that will make CC empty the folder but leave the folder? Wisewiz Wisewiz To those who have virtually none, even a little knowledge of computing seems like wizardry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroozer Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 After adding, include files only . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisewiz Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 Thank you so much. That answer gave me more than I hoped for. I'm off to tweak away happily now. Wisewiz To those who have virtually none, even a little knowledge of computing seems like wizardry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted February 24, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2013 (edited) wait, I think kroozer's answer is backwards, as this will just double clean Firefox cache. Ccleaner should be emptying not deleting by default try to uncheck the following in ccleaner and see if you no longer have the problem Firefox Compactdatabase Firefox sessions Edited February 24, 2013 by Nergal ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted February 24, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2013 Please Note: It seems my Post was incorrect and that it does remove the entire cache folder IMHO this is not what it should do (I didn't experience the same slow down but I can understand). The developers read all threads and hopefully will see this as an error and fix it ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroozer Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 My FF runs smooth with these settings . . Occasionally I analyze and clean the ☐ unticked items individually. Win7 x64, Vista x86, CC 3.27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisewiz Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 It may run smoothly, but it has to create a new cache folder every time you use CCleaner with Internet Cache checked under Firefox. That's just more writing to the disk, and fragmenting. It's no really big deal, but since I check my caches for all three browsers every night before I shut down for the night, when I started using CCleaner to replace the antique Empty Temp Folders 2.8.3 (which has the options of emptying any folders INSIDE your cache and leaving those folders in the cache folder, or emptying the whole cache, folders and all, but leaving the cache folder itself there), I immediately noticed that I saw an (almost) empty TIFs and an empty Chrome Cache folder, but got a popup from Windows that said "There AIN'T no Cache folder there no more" or words to that effect when I tried to check my Firefox cache folder. Thought it was worth checking out here. Wisewiz To those who have virtually none, even a little knowledge of computing seems like wizardry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisewiz Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 So is it possible we could have a 3.28.1 with the Firefox-Cache-deletion tweaked? Wisewiz To those who have virtually none, even a little knowledge of computing seems like wizardry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted February 26, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 26, 2013 the developers read all threads but never comment. However it is possible that they will see your point and change the cleaning logic for the cache folder. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisewiz Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 Thanks, Nergal. May you sleep well in Serenity tonight. (Oh, and fix the word "explanation" in your sig when you have a min.) Wisewiz To those who have virtually none, even a little knowledge of computing seems like wizardry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted February 27, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 27, 2013 (Oh, and fix the word "explanation" in your sig when you have a min.) woo hoo! Fixed, thanks ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisewiz Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 The latest version of CCleaner is still wiping out the Firefox Cache folder, not just its contents. Is there some explanation for this? Is there something about the FF Cache folder that makes it necessary to delete the *folder* in order to clean it out? Wisewiz To those who have virtually none, even a little knowledge of computing seems like wizardry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted April 6, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 6, 2013 Speed? Recreation of a folder (update a couple of entries in the MFT) should be very fast - unnoticeable really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Speed? Recreation of a folder (update a couple of entries in the MFT) should be very fast - unnoticeable really. Whilst that is how Firefox ought to work - and very probably would work even on XP + SP3 if Firefox was totally removed and then cleanly installed, I cannot help wondering if in-place updates forced by the crazy rabid update cycles have corrupted the installed code and/or the user profiles, and perhaps this particular installation spends a while trying to add contents to a Cache folder before it recognises the Cache folder needs to be created. There have been requests for CCleaner to remove empty folders and this has been resisted with the argument that some Applications create requisite folders upon installation, and they are broken if the "empty" folder is removed. Ideally Piriform should accept that argument as applying to all of its cleaning rules for all applications - including Firefox. The alternative is for individual users to perform clean installs of any application which has lost the capability of RE-creating afresh its own folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisewiz Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 Thanks for that affirmation, Alan. It doesn't seem like a cockroach, just a tiny bug like a common ant, but I think it's worth either changing or explaining (if it can't be changed without affecting something else). Wisewiz To those who have virtually none, even a little knowledge of computing seems like wizardry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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