Using portable CCleaner with PortableApps issue, part II

[wigga whambo]

A few months ago, I opened this thread on getting CCleaner portable to point to the other portable apps on my USB drive

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=43876&page=1

 

Now with the latest Portable updates from Chrome, I find CCleaner deleting my Chrome extensions after each cleaning.  Things like Click & Clean, Disconnect and the Adblock Plus Chrome extensions.

 

And then I ran across this...

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1yj4lb/update_ccleaner_so_it_does_not_delete_your/

 

Which I updated to, yet it still seems to delete my extensions somehow and had no effect. 

 

Does anybody know how to prevent this from happening?

 

Thank you.

[Andavari]

Have you tried in CCleaner:

1. Options > Exclude > Add (button)

2. Then choose Drive or Folder, and browse to where the extensions are stored and exclude that whole Extensions folder, example (I'm assuming here now since I use SRWare Iron Portable a Chrome/Chromium clone and don't know if the paths under profile are the same):

G:\PortableApps\GoogleChromePortable\Data\profile\Default\Extensions

 

 

It's interesting that it's deleting your extensions because CCleaner doesn't touch my extensions in SRWare Iron Portable which CCleaner sees and deems Chrome.

Edited October 15, 2015 by Andavari

[wigga whambo]

No, I haven't tried that method but I will, thanks.

 

Btw, do you know a way to back up extensions on Chrome (or Iron)?  I did a search and can't seem to find anything on it.

 

~

 

On a side note, it's interesting that you use SRWare Iron Portable since I tried using that AND Chrome on the same portableapps drive and found they conflicted with one another when I tried to open both at the same time.  I kept getting a warning message saying that another instance of Chrome (or Iron) was running in the background, even though both appear to have entirely seperate folders under the G:\PortableApps folder.  Apparently it's an either/or situation when it comes to using two different variations of the same browser on PortableApps.