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SystemCleaner

Matthias Urhahn edited this page Jan 20, 2025 · 9 revisions

System Cleaner

The SystemCleaner tool is basically a general purpose search engine. It will crawl all accessible storage and match found files and folders against a set of filters.

In contrast to other tools like the CorpseFinder or the AppCleaner, it doesn't know about installed apps. It purely works on file paths and attributes. This is why only path and segment exclusions can be applied to the SystemCleaner.

Any found file is passed through the enabled filters, and will be attributed to the first filter that is matched.

Settings

Custom filters

In addition to general filters that are provided by the app, you can create custom filters with your own criteria. Custom filters can be created from Settings>SystemCleaner>Filter-Manager.

Note: For good performance only define as much criteria as necessary. Too many criteria, especially regex based criteria, will slow down the search as all files will be passed through the filter.

General filters

A predefined set of filters for various purposes.

Specific filters

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