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It would be nice if it could clean up the crap Chrome produces. Just few weeks ago I was wondering why my drive is so full, and yep, Chrome was almost 12GB of that. It was cache, so somewhat legitimate (unlike what they used to do - leave 20 chrome copies on your drive), but chrome couldn't clean it (clear cache did nothing). I had to delete it manually (and of course it caused some problems). Few days later I was at 10+GB mark again, Chrome not being able to clean it.

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> Just few weeks ago I was wondering why my drive is so full

To easily answer this question I always use a tool like

https://windirstat.info/ (Windows) or Baobab (Linux)

For OS X, http://www.derlien.com/ is a solid alternative.

Or DaisyDisk, I love DaisyDisk.

or OmniDiskSweeper.

https://www.omnigroup.com/more/

Space Gremlin is another good one for OS X. and it feels a little more "Nativey" than Disk Inventory X (which I've also used and is also good).

http://www.spacegremlinapp.com/

GrandPerspective is also good, despite its hosting.

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

A bit slower, but I just use totalcmd to display sizes of all direct subfolders. Check both program files' folders and then user folder (and work my way into appdata).

Alternatively for windows, SpaceSniffer is a portable single file under 1 meg and no installation is required. http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

Definitely an upgrade to the old WinDirStat.

WindirStat was based on KDirStat[0] (which apparently has been superseded by qdirstat[1], this is the first I've heard of it) for KDE. Baobab[2] is a similar tool for Gnome.

[0]http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/

[1]https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat

[2]http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/

If you are using Windows, also consider Tronscript, which fights for the User.

https://github.com/bmrf/tron/blob/master/README.md#stage-1-t... https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

It de-bloat all useless software installed by OEM, BleachBit your computer, purge telemetry which tracking users, Disinfect virus and optimize computer. Most of the strange problem will go away from my experiences.

It is one tool that I will highly recommend to someone who really want a clean computer.

This has nothing to do with what the person above was talking about. You're just using their post to advertise. It doesn't attempt to reduce Chrome's disk footprint, and they said nothing about OEM software.

Plus that script is going to do more harm than good.

I am not connect to Tronscript in anyway.

It is simply a great automatic tool that really clean up a lot of problem.

> It is simply a great automatic tool that really clean up a lot of problem.

And introduce just as many new problems...

Does ccleaner help with that stuff?

Ccleaner with Winapp2 does the job here.

I have never heard of Winapp2 -- looks really cool. Thanks for mentioning it.

http://www.winapp2.com/

is ccleaner a legitimate product? when I tried it years ago it seemed kind of shady

I've been using it for years. It is brilliant.

If I have to use a Windows machine, CCleaner is one of the first tools I install, it's fantastic. On OS X I use App Cleaner (I run it in parallel with `brew cask rm` just to be safe). PS: That's numberwang! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

Don’t forget to run `brew cleanup` as well.

it's one the tools they teach you in forensics course, when they speak about "nasty anti-forensics done by criminals".

Source: attended some courses ;)

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