Inital release of Telegram Desktop cleaner #270
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| <action command="delete" search="walk.all" path="%AppData%\Telegram Desktop\tdata\user_data\cache"/> | ||
| <action command="delete" search="glob" path="%AppData%\Telegram Desktop\tdata\user_data\cache\*"/> |
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This glob line looks redundant to the walk.all above it
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Hadn't we noted in the docs, that if I want to delete the content of a folder including all sub-folders, I have to use ATM "walk.all" followed by "glob"? Read that so in the doc, again...
This was AFAIK also the reason you introduced "walk.top" in BB3.0...
I noted in the doc to it:
Starting with BleachBit v3.0 there is command="delete" search="walk.top" as a single command to do that!
But as some users still stay on Windows XP with BleachBit v2.2 (last version for WinXP) but use new cleaners, it is highly recommended to use this new feature at the moment with care!
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To accomplish this goal, change glob to file and change cache\* to just cache. As it is, I think it won't delete the cache directory itself.
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AFAIK, my solution deletes all in the "cache" folder and your solution would delete the "cache" folder itself...
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I searched in "stable" for an example, but can't find one... The only example I found now (first hit) is this one: https://github.com/az0/cleanerml/blob/master/pending/windows_recycle_bins_more.xml
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If you want to delete the top directory, I would use walk.top.
Yes, feel free to take a break! You work faster than I do :)
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Thx for the compliment! :-) But the harder Python part still remains to you... ;-)
Yeah, seems that's the prob! I just want to delete the complete content incl. the sub-folders of the folder!
And I think I can remember that we had a other solution to accomplish this goal, too, but with the solution I documented and used now, the cleaning of the files is better displayed and/or calculated in BB because BB deletes them all step by step and displays and calculates it! ;-)
I make now a test run with the cleaner and makes some screenshot of the folder & content & BB output during this for you. :-)
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Here some SS...
The folder "cache" have just one sub-folder in my case...
...but in this sub-folder there are 257 (!!!) more sub-folders that include the >15.500 files !!!
First a test of deleting the log file...
...then a test of deleting the "Memory Dumps"...
...and then the cleaning of the cache folders...
...but as you can see: It run into an Error 1 !!!
Here is a SS from the debugging window:
But the cache folder is empty as intended !!!
...so I have no clue what the "Error 1" should mean!
Note: There are maybe some space for improvements of the cleaner regarding the strings used...
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OK, which part?
The cleaner works like intended, but I get a error 1.
| <action command="delete" search="walk.all" path="%AppData%\Telegram Desktop\tdata\user_data\cache"/> | ||
| <action command="delete" search="glob" path="%AppData%\Telegram Desktop\tdata\user_data\cache\*"/> | ||
| <action command="delete" search="walk.all" path="%AppData%\Telegram Desktop\tdata\user_data\media_cache"/> | ||
| <action command="delete" search="glob" path="%AppData%\Telegram Desktop\tdata\user_data\media_cache\*"/> |
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This glob line looks redundant to the walk.all above it
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Look at my comment above, plz.
Should bring big benefits! E.g. in my case the folder "cache" have more then 160MB and more then 15.500 files !!! Should also be a big privacy benefit! The file names in "cache" are encrypted and have always random 12 letters and no extension and should also just partial files... but for a person with forensic knowledge it shouldn't be to difficult (also because code to Tg Desktop is OSS) to restore e.g. all the pictures which was shown to a user... As Tg is now a really famous messaging app and it seems this data doesn't get deleted by other solutions such as WinApp2.ini, I would suggest to move this cleaner soon (for BB3.2/4.0?) into the release (stable)...
Coded this cleaner ASAP in the last minutes... so haven't really tested him, yet! Hope maybe a other person interested in the BB project will do it soon...