BleachBit 2.0 temporary file cleaner review February 28, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/28/bleachbit-2-0-temporary-file-cleaner-review/
The option to add ini files is in the preferences or add them manually in the cleaners folder (BleachBit-Portable\share\cleaners).
FYI. BleachBit Portable 2.0 (disk, cache, history cleaner) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com.
Thanks. Decided to check it out. Portable Version. We on this end are Portable types. Less mess less fuss you know. But i still use Eraser big time. It's on every single machine irregardless of it's old stature. It works perfectly! Since mine are spindle drives (all of them) Eraser clears/scrambles deletes to keep the machines moving smoothly as ever. BUT, will tinker with famous/infamous Bleach Bit new version and see how it compares.
Yes, I know. It's my first foray into BleachBit as well, since CCleaner is getting a bit evil. You're welcome! Take care.
Got the Windows portable version last week. It doesn't seem to detect anything in Chrome's cache folder. (5 bytes?) CCleaner says there's more than 80MB there. Searched a bit about this issue and didn't find anything. Thanks in advance!
I can not use BleachBit portable on my main PC for the reason described in the 3D below: https://msfn.org/board/topic/177847-bleachbit-portable-error/
BleachBit 2.1 beta Released (February 10, 2019) Announcement Download Spoiler: Changes v2.1 beta Changes For a list of changes see the commit log, Launchpad bug tracker, and GitHub bug tracker. Tests These tests are for both Windows and Linux. Click Help - System Information, and there should be a line that starts Git revision. Open your operating system's file browser, and copy some files (that you don't need) to the clipboard. In BleachBit, click File - Shred Paths from Clipboard. Test the following cleaners that had major changes: Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Firefox, Waterfox. Clean non-default profiles in Firefox Use the command line option --wipe-free-space. Windows Clean SmartFTP. Click File - Shred Files, and select many files at once (see #348). Make a symlink to a folder with files. Delete the symlink, leaving the folder not needed. Use BleachBit to clean the recycle bin. Verify the files are not deleted. Shred a file on a remote system, such as NAS (see #338). Test installation as an upgrade from BleachBit 2.0 and as a fresh installation. Test both installer options: install for all users, and install for just the current user. Test uninstallation in both cases: all users and current user. Disable automatic updates for winapp2.ini. Replace the winapp2.ini that is automatically downloaded with the unmodified version from winapp2.com. Start BleachBit and close it, and verify there are no errors. New cleaners may be detected. Linux Run a deep scan. (Preview is sufficient.) Verify there are no errors. Clean memory on a system with a swap partition greater than 16 GiB. Run BleachBit without X, such as in cron. Test new distributions: Fedora 28 and Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10.
BleachBit 2.2 Released (March 20, 2019) Announcement Download Spoiler: Changes v2.2 Changes These are the changes since version 2.0: To shred paths from the clipboard, open your operating system's file browser, and copy some files to the clipboard. In BleachBit, click File - Shred Paths from Clipboard. Unlike drag-and-drop, this still works on Windows when running as administrator. Major cleaning improvements for Google Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox. Clean modern versions of Opera based on Chromium. Wipe free space from the command line with the new command --wipe-free-space (idea from Thomas). Improve startup time of application. On some systems, it can be significant. Increase resolution of application icon (thanks to totalCaesar659). Add cleaner for Waterfox (thanks to danielk43). Clean more of aMule (thanks to Pere Orga). Fix: deep scan crashed when encountering paths with special characters (reported by thecsw). Specific to Linux Add packages for Fedora 28, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 18.10. Improve AppData registration (thanks to Harald H). Clean more localizations (thanks to Tristan Stenner). Fix: notifications on Gnome (thanks to Djaler). Fix: percent symbol was not allowed in whitelist path (reported by bbusr). Fix: memory could not be cleaned when swap was larger than 16 GiB (reported by apd_1985). Fix: run BleachBit without X display, such as in cron (reported by isleno). Specific to Windows Add option to install for the current user or all users. Clean SmartFTP (thanks to Mat Berchtold). Clean WordWheelQuery under Windows Explorer (thanks to Michael Ziminsky). Add Winapp2.ini support for DetectOS= when minimum and maximum versions are used together. Improve support for multiple Detect= and DetectFile= used in Winapp2.ini. Improve support for high numbers of ExcludeKey#= used in Winapp2.ini. Add support for SpecialDetect= used in Winapp2.ini (reported by bsodx2). Add environment variable %cd% for use in custom cleaners (idea thanks to RaiKoHoff). Clean cache in Windows Media Player (idea thanks to Tobias B. Besemer). Clean more MRU in TeamViewer (idea thanks to Tobias B. Besemer). Clean Midnight Commander on Windows (idea thanks to Tobias B. Besemer). Update embedded SQLite. Fix: no longer follow symlinks in the Recycle Bin (idea thanks to Glashkoff) Fix: ampersand can now be used in Winapp2.ini (reported by BleachThemAll). Fix: selecting many paths to clean caused a crash (reported by SpyTec). Fix: files on a network filesystem were not shredded (reported by o8k57). Fix: DatabaseError when cleaning Google Chrome. Fix: encoding error in exception logging (reported by BleachThemAll).
FYI. BleachBit Portable 2.2 (disk, cache, history cleaner) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com.
BleachBit 2.3 beta Released (October 5, 2019) Announcement Download Spoiler: Changes v2.3 beta Changes For a list of changes see the commit log and GitHub bug tracker. Tests These tests are for both Windows and Linux. Test the user GUI in general because of the major upgrade from GTK+ 2 to GTK 3. Make chaff. Click the stop button while BleachBit is working. Restart BleachBit to verify it saves its window size, position, and whether it was full screen. Use command line option --wipe-free-space to wipe the free space in a path. In the preferences, toggle the "hide irrelevant cleaners." It should retrigger a re-scan only when closing the dialog, not when toggling. In the preferences, try the new dark mode. In the preferences, try the new option for debug logging. Application startup should be much faster. Scanning for files should be much faster. This might be most noticable in application startup, preview, deep scan, and when deleting many small files. Mangle the bleachbit.ini configuration file and start BleachBit. It should notify you that the file was reset. Test these cleaners with significant changes: aMule, FileZilla, Firefox, Flash, Internet Explorer, Midnight Commander, Opera, Silverlight, VIM, VLC, Vuze, Windows Defender, WinRAR. Windows Overwrite files on a network drive (issue 338). Select many files to shred (issue 348).. Watch for encoding errors (issues 328, 451, 567, and others). Clean symlinks in the recycle bin (issue 385). Mark a file read-only, and then shred it. Linux Verify it does not delete the Bluetooth daemon directory (issue 572). Test new distributions: Debian 10 and Ubuntu 19.04.
