dtoxic Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 just as the title says ability to clean hidden custom (.Folders) thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Winapp2.ini Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Do you mean folders that are hidden on your system? Or do you mean hiding them from the custom inclusions list? The first one is already possible, since you just need a path to the folder you want to clean. CCleaner doesn't care if the folder or any of its sub folders are hidden on your file system. winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtoxic Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 Do you mean folders that are hidden on your system? Or do you mean hiding them from the custom inclusions list? The first one is already possible, since you just need a path to the folder you want to clean. CCleaner doesn't care if the folder or any of its sub folders are hidden on your file system. i mean to include a ".folder" when trying to select a folder that is defined by a "dot" ccleaner cannot see it and thus cant select it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted December 9, 2016 Moderators Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) Winapp has done the same thing I did in another topic and that is to not notice the "CCleaner for Android" in the small print above your post. At the moment, even if you make hidden files visible CCleaner isn't configured to pick them up. As to whether this ability will be available in a future edition only the devs will know, but rest assured they do read these posts and do give serious consideration to all suggestions. Anyways, for now, hope that helps. Edited December 10, 2016 by DennisD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtoxic Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 Winapp has done the same thing I did in another topic and that is to not notice the "CCleaner for Android" in the small print above your post. At the moment, even if you make hidden files visible CCleaner isn't configured to pick them up. As to whether this ability will be available in a future edition only the devs will know, but rest assured they do read these posts and do give serious consideration to all suggestions. Anyways, for now, hope that helps. smile01.gif ohh ok, well i hope they do add this option, i would be very useful anyway thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted December 10, 2016 Moderators Share Posted December 10, 2016 (edited) I agree it would be useful simply because of the way Android can be configured slightly differently on different phones. A good example is the fact that I've seen many examples on line of folk complaining about the sometimes huge space stealing hidden folder called ".thumbnails" (dot_thumbnails) residing in the "DCIM" folder. Yet on my phone this same folder doesn't reside in that location. It lives directly in the root "Main Storage" folder. And just to make sure that is it's default location, I renamed it, took a photograph, and a new one was immediately created in the same location. CCleaner couldn't therefore realistically add this type of anomaly to it's built-in cleaning routines. It would have to be a "Manual Cleaning" feature. I do have software on my phone which can see dot prefixed hidden folders, so I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to add this ability to CCleaner. Although I think it would have to be accompanied by a "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" type warning pop up. Of course it's up to the developers in the end. Edited December 11, 2016 by DennisD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtoxic Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 I agree it would be useful simply because of the way Android can be configured slightly differently on different phones. A good example is the fact that I've seen many examples on line of folk complaining about the sometimes huge space stealing hidden folder called ".thumbnails" (dot_thumbnails) residing in the "DCIM" folder. Yet on my phone this same folder doesn't reside in that location. It lives directly in the root "Main Storage" folder. And just to make sure that is it's default location, I renamed it, took a photograph, and a new one was immediately created in the same location. CCleaner couldn't therefore realistically add this type of anomaly to it's built-in cleaning routines. It would have to be a "Manual Cleaning" feature. I do have software on my phone which can see dot prefixed hidden folders, so I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to add this ability to CCleaner. Although I think it would have to be accompanied by a "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" type warning pop up. Of course it's up to the developers in the end. smilie008.gif Agreed! my main problem (annoyance actually) is the viber "thumbnails folder" over time gets way too much garbage in there so this feature would be useful, but as you said it;s up to the devs. so lets hope thay add this in some of the next versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Winapp has done the same thing I did in another topic and that is to not notice the "CCleaner for Android" in the small print above your post. D'oh! winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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