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Codeusa / SteamCleaner

:us: A PC utility for restoring disk space from various game clients like Origin, Steam, Uplay, Battle.net, GoG and Nexon :us:
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SteamCleaner wants to delete more than just redistributables includes all of L4D2 Add-on Support #45

Open jChapman opened 7 years ago

jChapman commented 7 years ago

Maybe it knows something I don't, but why does it want to delete all of "left 4 dead 2 Add-on Support"?

allofl4d2addonsupport dowestillhateea

Then it seems that EA adds some help files to all of their games that SteamCleaner wants to delete: htmlfiles moreea

Eh, I don't really know what this is, but it doesn't look like reditsts to me: notredis

Rohaq commented 6 years ago

Yeah, this looks a little overzealous - or maybe it's just cleaning up files that are included in Left 4 Dead's main installation now - but without any explanation of what ruleset it falls under, or why it's being removed, it's difficult to judge!

Plus there's no obvious way to whitelist anything that you don't want to risk deleting - an exclusion tickbox for rules, individual files, or for an entire directory under Steamapps/common would be welcome!

Rohaq commented 6 years ago

Come to think of it, it looks like this just tries to delete any path in your Steamapps directory with "Support" in it, which is why "left 4 dead 2 Add-on Support" is flagged.

Which is just crazy dangerous.