Do not delete \appdata\Local\Temp\Low

Bug #1421726 reported by Stewart
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
BleachBit
Fix Released
High
Andrew Ziem

Bug Description

BleachBit wrongly deleting an important Windows User Profile folder

BleachBit seems to be wrongly deleting the Windows User Profile folder at '...\appdata\Local\Temp\Low' folder (via the User Profile path '...\Local Settings\Temp\Low').
The BleachBit setting named 'System' -> 'Temporary files' seems to control deletion of this important folder.
This folder should be deleted as it is required by Windows, and its deletion causes problems with printing and other functionality in Internet Explorer from a non-trusted web site/URL, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973479.
Deleting the files in the folder is great, but deleting the folder itself is wrong.

Could this be fixed please?
Many many thanks.
StewartW

Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)
Changed in bleachbit:
milestone: none → 1.8
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - BleachBit wrongly deleting an important Windows User Profile folder
+ Do not delete \appdata\Local\Temp\Low
Revision history for this message
Andrew Ziem (ahziem1) wrote :

Fixed in commit 5ac73a8.

(By the way, comment #2 was wrong: %TEMP%\Low is different than LocalAppDataLow.)

Changed in bleachbit:
assignee: nobody → Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Andrew Ziem (ahziem1) wrote :

Stewart: Please test the fix here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bleachbit/files/bleachbit/1.7.5alpha/

Let me know how it goes

And thanks for reporting this bug

Changed in bleachbit:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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