Windows 7 - Shred 'Not Responding'

[LPNow]

I noticed when setting the preferences to; 'Overwrite files to hide content' then picking Shred to shred a folder, Bleachbit in Windows 7 as it started, it would repeat several times during the shred, showing in the window title bar; '(Not Responding)'

If Bleachbit is performing correctly doing it's shred, then it should not be displaying 'Not Responding' in the window titlebar.

It also seemed to create an error in the bleachbit.exe.log;

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bleachbit\GUI.pyo", line 482, in cb_shred_file
  File "bleachbit\GuiBasic.pyo", line 40, in browse_folder
  File "bleachbit\Windows.pyo", line 119, in browse_folder
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bleachbit\GUI.pyo", line 482, in cb_shred_file
  File "bleachbit\GuiBasic.pyo", line 40, in browse_folder
  File "bleachbit\Windows.pyo", line 119, in browse_folder
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)

I'm attaching a screen shot called, bleachbit_shred.jpg which shows the 'Not Responding' in the window titlebar...

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

When this happened, was it shredding a large file? The screenshot shows the two files it finished were large (2GB each).

[LPNow (lpnow)]

Yes a large file...

It did complete the shred, but showing this messages, makes the end-user wonder like a typical application if it has stopped, so it would be nice if Bleachbit can be fixed to not show this if it didn't stop repsonding...

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

BleachBit 1.6 does not use a separate thread for the GUI and "cleaning worker." With small files it works fine because it will update the GUI every 2 seconds or so, but when the worker is busy cleaning for a long time, it will freeze the GUI.

For now the workarounds are:
1. Disable overwriting
2. Use the command line
3. Please be patient :)

[LPNow (lpnow)]

Number 3 sounds like a good plan! LOL...

Keep up the great work!

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

If this still exists in the latest version (BleachBit 2.1), please file bug report in the new home: https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md . If this bug no longer exists, it would be nice if you wrote a note to confirm.

What may be needed here is to make BleachBit multi-threaded so that the GUI and cleaning run in separate processes