Feature Suggestion

[JMR]

I've used ccleaner for probably over two years, but one irritation that has continued to bother me is the lack of any real progress indicator. It just seems to repeat itself on and on. Is there any way to set it up to show a percentage of "completeness"?

[i love my vans]

Thats a good point, i too would like to see this feature implimented.

 

ILMV

[DjLizard]

It would have to scan all of the files set for deletion, tally up all of the filesizes, and then scan through all of the files and delete them, using the first scan's total for the progess bar. It would take almost twice as long to delete the files since it would have to parse through them all twice.

[cde]

It would have to scan all of the files set for deletion, tally up all of the filesizes, and then scan through all of the files and delete them, using the first scan's total for the progess bar. It would take almost twice as long to delete the files since it would have to parse through them all twice.

 

This would be no problem if it was running after an Analyse operation - perhaps the bar could just say "working" if it's not actually showing progress, since it's always annoying to have a perceived progress bar reach the end, then restart. (Sometimes several times!)

[BopperBugger]

agreed! if it has to function with the progress bar indicating only the sub processes of the cleaning, at least put some text on a statusbar telling the user exactly what it's exactly doing.

 

ie: deleting c:/hello_world/hello.txt [1024kb] pass 2/7

[Perkel]

thats a kewl idea^

[klumy]

I agree the progress indicator should be redone

[agumon]

i disagree... the progress bar repeat itself when there are large amount of items to remove... due to you didnt clean your system for a long time, but if you use ccleaner to clean your system frequently, i dont think there is a need for it... after all, it will increase the cleaning time... and the progress bar repeating occur maybe only once during the first use of ccleaner...

[JMR]

i disagree... the progress bar repeat itself when there are large amount of items to remove... due to you didnt clean your system for a long time, but if you use ccleaner to clean your system frequently, i dont think there is a need for it... after all, it will increase the cleaning time... and the progress bar repeating occur maybe only once during the first use of ccleaner...

 

 

Not necessarily... sometimes this will occur after only a couple of weeks... in particular it will happen if you do secure deletion, sometimes repeating dozens of times. There should be SOME way to at least estimate an overal time and percentage of completion without first doing a complete analysis of everything.

[DjLizard]

The problem is that the restarting of the progress bar confuses people. MrG should implement an indeterminate progress bar (which is one that does not advance, but simply spins in place) and also list all files as they are being deleted.

 

See an example here: http://www.movalog.com/mt-static/images/in...rogress-bar.gif

[cde]

The problem is that the restarting of the progress bar confuses people. MrG should implement an indeterminate progress bar (which is one that does not advance, but simply spins in place) and also list all files as they are being deleted.

 

See an example here: http://www.movalog.com/mt-static/images/in...rogress-bar.gif

 

Agreed - unless CC has Analyzed (and can be accurate on progress), no increase in complteness should be implied.

 

Besides, who is agumon (or any of us) to suggest that a user is somehow "at fault" for not doing something regularly enough, or that a user's habits are more worthy of criticism than an app's poorly-implemented features?

 

No offense agu, or MrG if you're reading - just thought it was worth reiterating that a bar claiming to report "progress" should do just that, whilst a bar that says "working" would suit CC...

[Andavari]

I'd rather see the progress bar gone altogether and in its place something like Firefox when it loads webpages; just a simple spinning circle to indicate the program is working and hasn't stalled or crashed.