Windows

I installed bleachbit-512-beta on my Windows 10 machine a couple of days back.

While trying to manage the whitelist of cookies to keep, I noticed some funny behaviour. Then I saw these lines in red pop up when I bring up the cookie manager.

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Failed to read cookie keep list C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\BleachBit\cookie_keep_list.json: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Roaming\\BleachBit\\cookie_keep_list.json'
Enumerating cookie hosts took 2.77s
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Hello BleachBit Team,

First of all, thank you for creating such a powerful and useful cleaning tool. It has been very helpful for maintaining system cleanliness and privacy.

I would like to suggest a new feature that could improve usability even further: an option to automatically remove empty folders.

After performing cleanup operations, especially when deleting cache, logs, or temporary files, many empty directories are often left behind. These folders can accumulate over time and clutter the filesystem.

It would be very useful to have:

Sometimes as soon as BeachBit is started, it tries to update, but cannot. I get this message instead:
Error when opening a network connection to check for updates. Please verify the network is working and that a firewall is not blocking this application. Error message:

I am running BleachBit 4.00 on Windows 7 Professional. I have Spybot installed as my anti-virus program. It has no direct way of shutting off, except to use the Task Manager. I fixed a bug with the RTBackup folder that interferes with various services since Vista and has not yet been addressed by Microsoft. I still cannot get a listing of Bleach Bit options using --list even if I use the full path and extension.

I cannot think of any other reason why this is not working. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be the cause?

After running program do the cleaned files remain in the RAM or is a reboot required?

Thanks

George

This happens every day - I run BleachBit and an error posts saying Google Chrome history couldn't be removed.
I have to manually follow the path, remove it, then run the app again. This never happened when I first got it. What could be going wrong? I haven't changed any settings or preferences.
Thank you for your help.

BleachBit version 4.0.0
Build number 1628
GTK version 3.18.9
SQLite version 3.31.1

When I run BleachBit with the default settings (as installed) my Quick Access pins are deleted. Is there a way to stop this without disabling: Windows Explorer, Recent documents list?

I just installed Bleachbit 3.2.0 as an upgrade to version 3.0 on a French Windows system. Version 3.0 had its UI in English. Version 3.2.0 automatically installed its UI in the system locale, i.e. in French. I much prefer to have an English UI. How can I switch to English Bleachbit on my French system?
TIA

I've had the following error messages appear without having these issues in the past:
[Error 5] Access is denied.: Command to delete C:\WINDOWS\temp\6A67A598-3E02-4159-AE42-3B3A08B9C078308.1d4e8a4a2bb4ff7\1.291.862.0_to_1.291.908.0_mpasdlta.vdm._p
[Error 5] Access is denied.: Command to delete C:\WINDOWS\temp\6A67A598-3E02-4159-AE42-3B3A08B9C078308.1d4e8a4a2bb4ff7\1.291.862.0_to_1.291.908.0_mpavdlta.vdm._p
[Error 5] Access is denied.: Command to delete C:\WINDOWS\temp\6A67A598-3E02-4159-AE42-3B3A08B9C078308.1d4e8a4a2bb4ff7\mpasdlta.vdm

I ran BleachBit several times and received this message each time:

Google Chrome cannot be cleaned because it is currently running. Close it, and try again.

In each case Google Chrome was not running.

Ideas?

Tim