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grimoire · Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 69

http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/features

BleachBit has many useful features designed to help you easily clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy.

Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
Multi-platform: Linux and Windows
Free of charge
Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)
Free of adware, spyware, and malware
Translated to 43 languages: Arabic, Asturian, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Low German, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Thai and Turkish.
Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery
Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)
Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
Portable app for Windows: run without installation
Command line interface for scripting and automation
CleanerML allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML
Import winapp2.ini cleaner files (a separate download) giving Windows users access to 440 additional cleaners
Frequent software updates with new features

Uses

Use BleachBit to:

Free disk space
Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
Maintain privacy
Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example)
Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space

Cleaners

BleachBit includes a growing list of cleaners. Typically each cleaner represents an application such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Within each cleaner, BleachBit gives options covering components that can be cleaned such as cache, cookies, and log files. Each option is given a description to help you make good decisions.

The following are a list of cleaners available in BleachBit 0.8.5. You should be able to see a list of options by hovering your most over the cleaner name.

Adanaxis
Adobe Reader
aMSN
aMule
APT
Audacious
Bash
Beagle
Chromium
Downloader for X
Deep scan
Easytag
ELinks
emesene
Epiphany
Evolution
Exaile
Filezilla
Firefox
Flash
gedit
gFTP
GIMP
GL-117
GNOME
GNOME Art
Google Chrome
Google Earth
Google Toolbar
gPodder
Gwenview
Hippo OpenSim Viewer
Internet Explorer
Java
KDE
Konqueror
Liferea
Links 2
LiVES
Metacity
Microsoft Office
Midnight Commander
Miro
MySQL
Nautilus
Nexuiz
Notify OSD
OpenOffice.org
Opera
Paint
PDFedit
Phatch
Pidgin
PlayOnLinux
RealPlayer
Recoll
Rhythmbox
Safari
Screenlets
SeaMonkey
Second Life Viewer
Skype
sqlite3
System logs
System
TeamViewer
Thumbnails
Thunderbird
TortoiseSVN
Transmission
Tremulous
VIM
Virt-Manager
VLC media player
Vuze / Azureus
The Battle for Wesnoth
Winamp
Windows Defender
Windows Explorer
Silverlight
WINE
winetricks
WinRAR
WinZip
WordPad
X11
XBMC Media Center
XChat
Xfce
Xine
X-Moto
Yahoo! Messenger
yum
Zsh

Advanced cleaners

Going beyond standard deletion of files, BleachBit has several advanced cleaners:

Clear the memory and swap on Linux
Delete broken shortcuts on Linux
Delete the Firefox version 3 URL history without deleting the whole file—with optional shredding
Delete Linux localizations: delete languages you don't use. More powerful than localepurge and available on more Linux distributions.
Clean APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint
Find widely-scatted junk such as Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files.
Execute yum clean for CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat to remove cached package data
Delete Windows registry keys—often where MRU (most recently used) lists are stored
Delete the OpenOffice.org recent documents list without deleting the whole Common.xcu file
Overwrite free disk space to hide previously files
Vacuum Firefox, Google, Liferea, Thunderbird, and Yum databases: shrink files without removing data to save space and improve speed
Surgically remove private information from .ini and JSON configuration files with deleting the whole file

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2290 Location: Queensland

Looked interesting, but it don't run
I tried it with Quirky120NOP with python installed

grimoire · Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 69

there's a link in their website, you can try the other versions if you want, the one that I've uploaded is base on debian lenny 5, there's an available ubuntu packages in their site too. Smile

zapjb · Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 21

Anybody get BleachBit to work in Lucid and how?

grimoire · Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 69

Hi! zapjb, have you try this one. Smile

http://portablelinuxapps.org/

zapjb · Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 21

Couldn't get that to work. Too bad I really like BleachBit.

Digital_Dissident · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 25 Location: U.S.- E. Coast

Is there anything already in Puppy that offers at least some of the same functionality as BleachBit?

Namely, a way to quickly clean-up unnecessary files and data?

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813

Here you go , a bleachbit that works on all Lucid puppies, haven't tested it on any others it is version 0.7.3 same that is in the Ubuntu Repos. After downloading and installing you must install Python-2.6-Lucid from the PPM and it will work flawlessly (hopefully, it did for me).

http://www.mediafire.com/?3f00aiwp1bedgh8

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813

New pet out for Bleachbit 0.8.7. Requires Python-2.6-Lucid.pet. Uncheck to check for updates at start-up on first start.

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

@ DPUP5520

Thanks for this Smile

It works well, however each time I run the application it informs me that I am running out of RAM, but when I check using HTOP, I'm told I have plenty of RAM available ( 2gb ). I am using a usb flash drive so unsure if this would be replicate on a frugal or full install of Lucid 5.25.

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813

Interesting, i've more or less abandoned using usb sticks for installing puppy and have been running frugal installs directly to a partition on the drive, however I will look into your problem, HTOP does not always correctly report the amount of ram you have free correctly I have seen, or maybe thats just with my computer. Anyway I will look into your problem when I get a puppy install onto a usb stick and report back to you.

Digital_Dissident · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 25 Location: U.S.- E. Coast

I appreciate your efforts BleachBit and it's good to know BleachBit is available for Puppy but I was asking if there was anything already included in Puppy that did at least some of what BleachBit does.

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813

To put it simply no Puppy does not include utlities that can do what bleachbit is designed to do. Puppy has the dd utility in it but thats about it. Noone ever said that bleachbit was supposed to be used for secure deletion as it is no way suited for that, if you are looking for secure file deletion i'd reccomend either wipe or nwipe.

sjsrikanth · Joined: 28 Mar 2011 Posts: 114 Location: Chennai, India

Works well , but getting the RAM full warning!

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813

Ok so I just tried bleachbit off of a usb which i'm posting from now and did not get a ram full warning or anything of the type and this is coming from a clean usb install of 525 with just python installed and bleachbit, could someone give me a screenshot of this, and trying running from terminal and see if any error or warning messages come up. What are the puppy versions that are coming up with the ram full error?