CCleaner 6.15 doesn't clean Opera 102 ...

[escape75]

My Opera just got updated from 101.xxx to 102.xxx and now the newest version of CCleaner doesn't clean browsing history, or downloads, for Opera ...

 

[nukecad]

They have probably changed where the files are stored. Chrome and Firefox have both done similar in the past.

It will take the CCleaner devs time to change the locations to be cleaned, it will probably be the next CCleaner update.

In the meantime if you use Custom Clean you could try ticking history and downloads in Chrome if you have it, or in Edge Chromium,  to see if that will also clear them in Opera.
Or try running Health Check to see if that will clear them already.
(As Opera is Chromium based they may have changed the file locations to align with what Chrome changed to a while ago, so Health Check may already clear those locations?)

Alternatively if you can find where Opera is saving the history files you could add the location(s) as an 'Include' in Custom Clean.

If you use Health Check then you can't customise it like that and will have to wait for the CCleaner devs to update what it cleans.

[escape75]

From what I can tell, it's:

 

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default\Cache\Cache_Data\*

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default\History

 

[escape75]

UPDATE: It seems now fixed again in the new Opera ?!

102.0.4880.16 had an issue and wasn't being cleaned, but 102.0.4880.29 seems to work again ...

 

 

[nukecad]

It must have been an issue with your Opera itself then, there has been no update to CCleaner and 6.15. 10623 is still the current version.

[escape75]

Yeah I think there was an issue with Opera 102.0.4880.16, maybe that's why another station running Opera 101 won't update to 102 yet ...

It seems they messed up the paths and corrected again in 102.0.4880.29 ...

 

[escape75]

UPDATE: I figured it out ...

It seems starting with Opera 100.x, the browser can use 2 different locations for storing Cache, etc:

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable

as well as the newer style:

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default

When opera stores in the first path, cleaning works as expected, but if it uses the 2nd path, it doesn't work.

One way to force Opera to use the 2nd path is to create a "Default" folder under "Opera Stable", and restart browser.

One way to force Opera to use the 1st path is to remove the "Default" folder and restart the browser.

*All these changes of course will reset your preferences and there will be loss of data*

 

[escape75]

UPDATE: 6.16 doesn't seem to fix it ...

 

One way to fix is to remove/rename the "Default" subfolder and move files to the parent of the "Default" subfolder:

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable

 

*Unfortunately this isn't a fix but a workaround*

 

[nukecad]

You could make the "...\Opera Stable\Default" folder (and it's sub-folders) an Include for Custom Clean.

Custom Clean would then remove any files that are in there, in addition to it;s normal cleaning of the 'Opera Stable' folder.

[escape75]

That is true, but there's a lot of files there and I feel like I shouldn't mess with them ...

I don't think browser settings are there, as they are in the 'opera stable' folder but I didn't check that closely :)

 

[nukecad]

That's fair enough,

It would take some testing with renaming/deleting the folders to check and set up, but you could check what files Custom Clean removes from the 'stable' folder first, and then set Includes to remove the same files from 'default' profile folder if you have that instead.

I'm also wondering if winapp2 already clears them?
It does clear stuff from Opera that the standard CCleaner rules don't cover.
I do realise that winapp2 is not for everybody and can seem a bit advanced for some users, but you may want to give it a try:

 

[escape75]

Since Opera 104.x the folders have now moved to Default,- so CCleaner doesn't clean anything anymore.

 

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable ->

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default

[escape75]

There's one but not very elegant solution to this ...

From "C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable"
copy the contents of the "Default" sub-folder back to the parent (Opera Stable),
and then create a symbolic directory "Default" that points back to parent:
mklink /D Default .

 

[NER]

@escape75 Thanks for your work around i am a bit stuck with what you mean  by "Create a symbolic directory "Default" that points back to parent:
mklink /D Default ."  please can you help?

 

[escape75]

So what I mean is this ...

 

CCleaner expects Opera files in "C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable", but newer Opera releases
keep some files there and some under a subfolder named "Default", so in order to fix the issue I close Opera, copy all files from "Default"
back to the parent folder (overwriting a few files), then create a symbolic directory link named "Default" that points back to parent ...

This way CCleaner is happy as the files are where they should, and Opera is fooled into thinking Default folder exists,
but when it reads/writes to the Default folder, it's really reading/writing to the parent folder and everything is fine :)

From the "C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable" in CMD, this creates the fake folder:
"mklink /D Default ."

Of course, the folder needs to be removed first (after copying the files from it back to parent), this is a one-time procedure.

 

[CCleaner Cleaning Team]

Thanks for your patience with this. Here's an update about Opera cleaning.

[tigerbouy7477]

I turned off the new AI within opera and ccleaner works perfectly now.