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Local Disk

The Fox of Glenarvon · 2018-03-21 21:42:13

I was browsing through my local disk files today and I discovered old folders from about 5 years ago that I thought I deleted. I have CCleaner on my laptop and I use regularly. I'm wondering how does files survived and what I can do to get rid of them?

21-03-2018 10:42PM

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The Fox of Glenarvon

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I was browsing through my local disk files today and I discovered old folders from about 5 years ago that I thought I deleted. I have CCleaner on my laptop and I use regularly. I'm wondering how does files survived and what I can do to get rid of them?

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#2 22-03-2018 09:05AM

rgodard80a

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Simplist answer is that you didn't delete those files 5 years ago.

CCCleaner will only delete temporary files, caches etc.
Temporary files and locations that by their very nature disposable. eg. c:\windows\temp

It absolutely will not touch normal files like Word docs, programs, photos (outside of cached ones downloaded from the net) no matter how old they are.

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#3 09-04-2018 12:00PM

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Be very careful what you shred

http://www.fileshredder.org/

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