Pecky Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 I have my OS on my SSD but I also have two other HHD I want CCleaner to go over. I go into include and choose my E drive and it says "for system safety reason you cannot select this specific location." any idea why this is happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted April 15, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 15, 2017 you can't simple state a Drive without a folder as well. Including E:\ isn't allowed. Including E:\MyStuff is allowed. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pecky Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 you can't simple state a Drive without a folder as well. Including E:\ isn't allowed. Including E:\MyStuff is allowed. So I have to state every folder? What a pain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted April 15, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 15, 2017 I believe so. you could try to reduce the amount of folders to make that easier, like whack everything under one, generic folder name. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted April 15, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 15, 2017 If you included a drive, or all the folders on a drive, isn't that erasing all the data from the drive? If that's what you want why not use Drive Wiper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 15, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 15, 2017 You have to input specific folders for it to clean, such as E:\Temp Trying to input just E:\ would tell it to delete everything on the drive, which is why it won't let you do that to protect you from making a disastrous mistake. Think of it sort of like a batch file, where you have to tell it specifically where you want it to delete something, but unlike a batch file that will happily nuke everything on a secondary drive CCleaner won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted April 15, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 15, 2017 If you included a drive, or all the folders on a drive, isn't that erasing all the data from the drive? If that's what you want why not use Drive Wiper? Trying to input just E:\ would tell it to delete everything on the drive, which is why it won't let you do that to protect you from making a disastrous mistake. I'm confused... Why have we started talking about erasing, wiping and deleting everything??? What am I missing here? The OP was just trying to add an INCLUDE in CCleaner and asking why he got an error when adding an entry at the drive level, in his case, E:\ Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted April 16, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 16, 2017 Because if you could add an include with the drive letter then all the data on the drive would be deleted (with the relevant options set). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted April 16, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 16, 2017 Oh OK, I took your phrasing of "all your data on the drive would be deleted" too literally. You mean just your junk, crap files that are normally covered by CC. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted April 16, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 16, 2017 I don't know what the OP wants, but including at the drive letter level would mean that every single file on that drive, junk or irreplacable, would be deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 16, 2017 Moderators Share Posted April 16, 2017 Oh OK, I took your phrasing of "all your data on the drive would be deleted" too literally. You mean just your junk, crap files that are normally covered by CC. If CCleaner allowed it and it doesn't everything on the drive that could be deleted (except for locked files such as System Volume Information) would be deleted. Some cleaning tools don't offer that protection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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