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mastrgamr

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Registered: 2011-08-01

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[SOLVED] Using BleachBit to clean your system

I'm a fan of keeping my system tidy, and came across bleach bit in the AUR repos. Is it ok to just click clean and not have anything drastic happen to my system?
or do I have to go over what is being deleted and make sure it doesn't delete a key setting from a program?

Last edited by mastrgamr (2011-09-23 20:59:16)

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Using BleachBit to clean your system

http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/

Techman084

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Registered: 2011-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Using BleachBit to clean your system

Hey mastrgamr,

While you're not required to look over whats being deleted, whenever I run bleachbit, I just skim over what it plans to delete just to make sure it's nothing critical. As far as I know, it won't delete any settings for any programs but it does delete stuff like temporary files in your local and system directories as well as your internet history and cache for any browsers you have installed.

rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

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Re: [SOLVED] Using BleachBit to clean your system

I don't know this tool but I think you're better off doing things by hand. This way you know what's going on.

- for cleaning package related cruft see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Tips
- set up logrotate and disable unnecessary logs in /etc/syslog/
- configure firefox cache settings if a big cache bothers you
- check which folders in ~/ take up diskspace with du, or better ncdu

You can generally delete any dot folder in ~/ without breaking anything.You only lose personal settings of an application but these folders are recreated next time you run the application. To be safe just rename it first to see what the effect is.

Make regular backups in case you delete a little too much;)

good luck

Last edited by rwd (2011-09-23 19:14:44)

mastrgamr

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Re: [SOLVED] Using BleachBit to clean your system

thanks a lot guys.

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donniezazen

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Registered: 2011-06-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Using BleachBit to clean your system

I think bleachbit is a great software. I ran it once a week to clean everything. It has never created any problem for me. I just like to delete everything (temp data) once a week for safety reasons.

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