Comments on: Guide: CCleaner Secure Delete Script http://www.worthinstalling.com/2008/12/guide-ccleaner-secure-delete-script.html Software that's worth installing on your computer. Reviews, comparisons, tips, updates... by Alex S Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alex S. http://www.worthinstalling.com/2008/12/guide-ccleaner-secure-delete-script.html#comment-283 Alex S. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:25:14 +0000 http://www.worthinstalling.com/?p=178#comment-283 The option you asked about is not available in CCleaner :( However, while preparing an upcoming post on <a href="http://www.fcleaner.com/" rel="nofollow">FCleaner</a>, I noticed that its Options section includes an advanced custom cleaner panel with custom folder, wildcard and exclusion filters. Should be right up your alley. The option you asked about is not available in CCleaner :(

However, while preparing an upcoming post on FCleaner, I noticed that its Options section includes an advanced custom cleaner panel with custom folder, wildcard and exclusion filters. Should be right up your alley.

]]> By: Howard Schwartz http://www.worthinstalling.com/2008/12/guide-ccleaner-secure-delete-script.html#comment-278 Howard Schwartz Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:02:55 +0000 http://www.worthinstalling.com/?p=178#comment-278 Thanks for the ccleaner delete script, but it appears all but superflous to me: One can do almost the same thing, by selecting a group of files in most file managers (I use xplorer2) and hitting the key. One might use ccleaner for this, only if one wants the delete more ``secure'' - and file managers do this too. The real deficiency is (for unfanthomable reasons to me) ccleaner lets on specify entire folders, or specific (entire) filenames to delete each time it is run. But one cannot add to this list a group of files, defined by wildcards. That is, you can not instruct it to delete, say, all the files, c:\somedirectory\*.log as part of its normal other cleaning operations. Your script requires a separate ccleaner command, just to do this alone. Any ideas on how to tell ccleaner to delete multiple files as part of normal operations? Can can imagine a clumsy script like this: for %%s in (*.log *.chk *.tmp) do ccleaner.exe /delete c:\somedirectory\%%s ccleaner Which runs ccleaner multiple times in ``secure delete'' mode and then runs it normally. Can you think of something more efficient or better? Thanks for the ccleaner delete script, but it appears all but superflous to me: One can do almost the same thing, by selecting a group of files in most file managers (I use xplorer2) and hitting the key. One might use ccleaner for this, only if one wants the delete more “secure” - and file managers do this too.

The real deficiency is (for unfanthomable reasons to me) ccleaner lets on specify entire folders, or specific (entire) filenames to delete each time it is run. But one cannot add to this list a group of files, defined by wildcards. That is, you can not instruct it to delete, say, all the files, c:\somedirectory\*.log as part of its normal other cleaning operations. Your script requires a separate ccleaner command, just to do this alone.

Any ideas on how to tell ccleaner to delete multiple files as part of normal operations? Can can imagine a clumsy script like this:

for %%s in (*.log *.chk *.tmp) do ccleaner.exe /delete c:\somedirectory\%%s
ccleaner

Which runs ccleaner multiple times in “secure delete” mode and then runs it normally. Can you think of something more
efficient or better?

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