Can the PortableApps.com management give guidelines on how to use CCleaner Protable to clean our PortableApps?
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or less a registry cleaner tool?
OK, it can do few more other tasks, but it is 'cleaning' things by the use of registry to great extend.
Since poratble apps is not using the registry in the classical way , there is not much to be cleaned.
Or I might have misunderstood you, what exactly do you want to be cleaned on portable apps?
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
CCleaner did not begin as a registry cleaner. It began as a cleaner app similar to the one built in to windows.
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CCleaner isn't just a registry cleaner, it cleans out useless junk from applications, it helps trim the fat from applications, e.g. GIMP Portable, whenever I use it, it leaves files in the thumbnail section, and it creates a .recently-used.xbel file that stores recently opened images, and tends to bloat with every use, it would be cool to have Portable CCleaner clean those, and another is Audacity Portable, whenever I use it, it creates a audacity_portable.reg in the settings area, which tends to bloat with every use, it would be cool if Portable CCleaner clean that too...
I bet there are other useless junk that I don't know about yet.
I really don't know any way for CCleaner to clean your portableapps. Maybe you can manually edit the settings file that tells CCleaner what to clean. Actually, that'd be a good idea for me to try out...
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Wasn't this very thing discussed in another thread?
I think you can use ini files (and relative paths) to clean out unessential "session" data.
The OP started that thread, too.
He wants someone else to do the work for him, and he wants to blame someone else if something goes wrong.
I asked him to give me the things (EXACT PATHS AND FILENAMES) he wanted cleaned and I would build the ini file for him, but evidently THAT is too much trouble for him.
The offer, BTW, is now off the table.
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
excuse me neutron1132, i'm not a programmer nor a PortableApps.com developer, so i wouldn't know what exact paths and filenames to clean, that's why I'm asking PortableApps.com management for guidelines...
It matters on how you've installed the programs you have, and which ones you have, and what you want cleaned.
Just like you, I'm not a programmer or a PortableApps.com developer either.
My setup is substantially different from whatever you have. I don't use the PortableApps.com menu and I have all the programs installed on my internal hard drive, an external hard drive, and a USB flash drive. I use my own computers or a few selected ones that belong to family. I have different "portable" and/or "stealth" needs than other people.
Even if I was to try to make something to clean the stuff on MY drives, I'm sure that it would either not work for yours, or would cause some kind of unwanted result.
So, that brings us full-circle. Programs, paths, and filenames. To even attempt otherwise is truly shooting in the dark - and may result in shooting one's own foot.
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
J Neutron, you likely couldn't have helped much anyway. The problem is that the .ini calls for path names, which can change from system to system. I've looked at the .ini format referenced in the other thread, and I don't really see how it could work.
From where I sit -- and I'm not a programmer -- there's two ways to go about it. One, you install CCleaner locally, on your home computer. Or use the portable one, but put it on a drive at home. Configure it to clean your portable apps. Two, you make an entry in the .ini for each drive letter your portable apps use, resulting in redundancy. If CCleaner doesn't find the app, it skips it. I took that whole .ini Piriform posted in their forum, and it lists all kinds of apps I've never heard of -- but it doesn't try to clean them, since it can't find them.
So now all that's needed to be done is the section of the .ini file that will clean any Portable Firefox, and all the end user has to do is input their path. It should not be that hard to do, but I don't even know what needs cleaning.
Personally I think it's too much work. It would in fact be less effort to browse to your portable Firefox folder, go into data, go into profile, go into cache, delete everything, go back to profile, go into bookmarksbackup, delete all but the latest one, and call it a day. But I've been using Portable Firefox for over a year, and I've never deleted any of that stuff. Seems to run OK for me. Not knocking CCleaner as it does have its uses, but I don't see a real need here, but I could be missing something.
My guess is that it's more of a privacy measure than a performance measure, but I could be wrong.
"If you've got nothing to hide..."[/Google]
I think privacy measures take a back seat with flash drives... it's not the right answer, and it might not be the best answer, but it seems to be the current one.
It would be more appropriate than anything, I think, for PortableApps.com to one day release their own CCleaner-like app that specifically cleans PortableApps.com apps. Like each new version gets a manifest of apps that PortableApps.com offers and how to clean each one, and when it runs, it first scans to see what apps are present, and then it cleans each accordingly.
I can't spell, even in other languages.
with cc leaner.
CCleaner will search default paths or driven by registry entries to make its way to the parts it is set to look for. So if you want it to search for something else, you have to program to do it. So by default it will not take care of things of gimp, it not meant to do so. This I mean not only of portable, but also installed versions. It will however take care of office2007 thought I have non on any of my computers, but it will not take care abt any open office installation the same way.
Thats why the authors have some system of ini to help to set up what one thinks it should do in addition to its normal setup. But for that you have to know *exactly* what you want clean and what is the correct path to it. So you can not just say you want simply clean the stick, since nobody knows what you want clean.
But when you finally know exactly what you want have deleted, you can also have a simple .bat file with same list in it and one click and all the files are gone. And all done without complex and slightly dangerous software like ccleaner
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Well said!
I made a Portable Speedyfox that I never got feedback on...
I think SpeedyFox would work on FFP. Just direct it towards the profile directory in the Data folder.
SpeedyFox
(Or just Google speed up Portable firefox perhaps...)
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