Test BleachBit 0.6.0 beta

Want to test BleachBit 0.6.0 beta? It contains numerous new features and some fixes. In particular, please test:

• BleachBit should refuse to clean these applications while they are running: APT, Epiphany, Evolution, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Skype.
• When previewing or deleting, the list of files should continuously scroll to the end.
• On Linux, please test the new APT cleaner (only for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other apt-based systems).
• On Linux, please test SQLite database vacuuming in Liferea.
• On Windows, BleachBit (the application, not the installer) should automatically detect your native language and show text in the correct language (must be one of the 27 translated languages). To change the language, go to the Windows Control Panel, click on Regionalization, choose your language under Standards and Formats, and restart BleachBit.
• On Windows XP, BleachBit should clean all of Internet Explorer without errors (which would be indicated in a red color).
• On Windows Vista, you may see 'access denied' cleaning Internet Explorer unless you right click on the BleachBit shortcut and choose 'Run as Administrator.'
• On Windows, BleachBit should empty the Recycle Bin of all fixed drives (i.e., not network drives, not remove-able drives, and not read-only drives).
• There are new languages: Galician, Swedish, Romanian.

Please be aware: the positions of the Preview and Delete buttons have been swapped!

Because of the significant time it takes to prepare all the installation packages, only the following files are offered for this beta:

• Microsoft Windows: BleachBit-0.6.0beta-Win32-install-full-gtk.exe
• Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 (Python 2.5): bleachbit_0.6.0beta-1_all_ubuntu804.deb
• Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 (Python 2.6): bleachbit_0.6.0beta-1_all_ubuntu904.deb
• Source code: bleachbit-0.6.0beta.tar.gz

For other Linux distributions, you can try the most similar installation package above. For example, Ubuntu 8.10 and LinuxMint 6 and 7 users can download the Ubuntu 8.04 package. Alternatively, run from source, which is not very difficult.

Check back soon for the final release with the detailed release notes (as usual).

Free much more disk space than localepurge

Say you are a polyglot fluent in nine languages, and Ubuntu installs files for 500 languages: that means you are wasting disk space for 491 languages you will never use! Ridiculous!

Perhaps your root partition is nearly full, and you are tired of wasting time and space to backup these useless files. Who isn't?

You try localepurge to delete the unnecessary locale files, but the dirty secret is that localepurge misses most of the localizations. What?

Even worse if you use Fedora, CentOS, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat, or any other non-APT distribution, you will find localepurge doesn't work at all. Rejected!

So quit fumbling around with localepurge, and stop the insanity: there is a better way!

Well how much more disk space does BleachBit recover than localepurge? 50% more? Wamby pamby! 100% more? I'm offended! 500% more? Guess even higher!

Scienticians in a laboratory tests prove BleachBit has 705.3% more cleaning power than localepurge on a standard Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope install. Just look at the pretty chart!

Yet BleachBit is so easy to use: on most any Linux distribution, first download and install BleachBit. Then start BleachBit's simple graphical interface as root by clicking Applications - System Tools - BleachBit as Administrator. Go to the preferences and check languages you want to keep. Close the preferences, and check the checkbox for Localizations. Then, click delete, and kiss those unwanted language files goodbye!

Want to delete more than the 181MB shown in the chart? No problem! As you install new software packages and run BleachBit again, its un-patented sensors with advanced open-source technology acquire the target, lock on, and delete even more files. The more you install, the more you save: BleachBit is a waste-hunting predator!

How much would you pay? $49.99? $19.99? You won't find this product in department stores, so put your credit card away, download for free today, and we'll throw in cleaners for Firefox, Flash, Opera, APT, Yum, and fifty other popular applications!

How about a file shredder to too? OK! BleachBit is the one tool that does it all!

What are you waiting for? Hurry while supplies last: download now!

Update to translators

Thank you to all translators for keeping the translations complete and updated. BleachBit is now in 25 languages! Several things have happened and are happening to make translators easier and better:

• The new translation page gives detailed information for translating BleachBit.
• As of today, Launchpad shows hints on certain strings. Here is an example:
  
• I continue to make an active effort to avoid introducing new strings and to avoid editing old strings. This reduces your work. However, some changes are unavoidable, so thanks for your patience.
• I've reduced the number of strings by combining similar strings to reduce translators' work.
• I've recruited help for specific new languages (Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Romanian, Swedish) and for a few out-of-date languages on SourceForge's job postings, and many of these postings have led to new translations.
• While BleachBit uses translations seamlessly on Linux, I'm still working on figuring out how they should work on Windows. A FAQ entry on the new documentation page describes a workaround for Windows users, so BleachBit displays words in your native language. (Let me know whether you need the workaround.)

BleachBit 0.5.4 released

Version 0.5.4 is a maintenance release of BleachBit, the free and open source file and privacy cleaner for Linux and Windows. BleachBit aims to be an easy, advanced, and smart way to clean junk including cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, and temporary files.

This release is considered stable for Linux and a preview release for Windows. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. "Preview" means there are rough edges (such as the index.dat error noted below), but BleachBit should not "eat your files."

UPDATE

August 2, 2009: BleachBit 0.6.0 has been released.

Changes

The following changes are included since 0.5.3:

• Add new feature to automatically hide irrelevant cleaners. "Irrelevant cleaners" are those that would make no changes on your system (such as for an application you don't have.) On by default, it slightly increases the time to start BleachBit, but it significantly reduces the time to find options because of the reduced clutter. BleachBit now has over 50 cleaners (many with multiple options), so the list of cleaners was too long.
• Clean SeaMonkey
• Delete Adobe Reader MRU's
• Delete Opera download history, URL history, and current session.
• Fix bug: don't uninstall OpenOffice.org extensions.
• Specific to Linux
  • Clean X Window Systems session errors log thanks to Roman Horník.
• Specific to Windows
  • Clean Google Toolbar.
  • Clean Microsoft Office MRU's.
  • Clean WinRAR MRU's.
  • Enhance Microsoft Windows MRU cleaner to clean mapped network drives MRU's and Vista/7-specific MRU's.
  • When upgrading, the uninstaller will guide you in uninstalling the old version before installing the new version.
  • Optionally create a desktop shortcut to start BleachBit.
  • Fix bug: in case with a cleaner option having multiple Windows registry entries to be deleted, some were skipped.

Translations

Thank you to the translators for making this the best translated release yet!

• Add Hindi thanks to Asutosh Dash.
• Add Norwegian Bokmål thanks to Daniel Delâtre.
• Add Simplified Chinese thanks to 勇辉 (Jacky Chen) and mao_king.
• Update Bulgarian thanks to Svetoslav Stefanov.
• Update Czech thanks to Roman Horník.
• Update Dutch thanks to Rob.
• Update Finnish thanks to Lauri Lappalainen.
• Update German thanks to MixCool.
• Update Hebrew thanks to Yaron.
• Update Hungarian thanks to Moltenice80.
• Update Italian thanks to Luca Falavigna.
• Update Russian thanks to Ilia Lilov aka lilovip and to Sergei Sedov.
• Update Slovak thanks to Roman Horník.
• Update Spanish thanks to juancarlospaco.
• Update Turkish thanks to Ckurdu.

Code	Name	Percentage translated
ar	العربية	54.01%
bg	български език	91.24%
ca	Català	93.43%
cs	česky	100%
da	dansk	75.18%
de	Deutsch	91.24%
es	Español	100%
fi	suomen kieli	38.69%
fr	Français	89.05%
he	עברית	100%
hi	हिन्दी	87.59%
hu	Magyar	90.51%
it	Italiano	100%
nb	Norsk (bokmål)	76.64%
nl	Nederlands	100%
pl	polski	92.70%
pt	Português	75.18%
pt_BR	Português do Brasil	89.78%
ru	Pусский	100%
sk	slovenčina	100%
sr	српски	47.45%
tr	Türkçe	100%
zh_CN	简体中文	44.53%

Want to help translate BleachBit? It's easy, and this new page explains how in detail.

Known issues

• Internet Explorer index.dat files cannot be cleaned because they are in use (locked) by a running process. You will see a red error.
• On Windows when there is an exception (such as when a file can't be deleted), py2exe throws up an error dialog about a log file when exiting BleachBit.
• Do translations work on Windows? BleachBit 0.5.4 is in 23 languages. Please reply with a comment on the blog or a bug report.

Screenshots

Simplified Chinese on Windows 7:

Norwegian Bokmål on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope:

Hindi on Fedora 10:

See more screenshots on the new screenshots web page.

Download

Download BleachBit now. Installation packages are ready for 19 platforms including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Windows.

BleachBit 0.5.3 released

Version 0.5.3 is a maintenance release of BleachBit, the free and open source file and privacy cleaner for Linux and Windows. BleachBit aims to be an easy, advanced, and smart way to clean junk including cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, and temporary files. BleachBit is better than freeware: it's open source.

This release is considered stable for Linux and a preview release for Windows. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

UPDATE

July 16, 2009: BleachBit 0.5.4 has been released.

Changes

The following changes are included since 0.5.2:

• Expand CleanerML to display warnings for options.
• Add ability to clean Windows registry keys and named values (available in CleanerML).
• Show in real time the total bytes cleaned in the status bar, so you don't have to scroll to the end of the list.
• Clean FileZilla
• Clean aMule thanks to juancarlospaco (LP#390496)
• Specific to Linux
  • Clean Audacious thanks to juancarlospaco.
  • Clean Links2 thanks to MixCool.
  • Clean Xine thanks to juancarlospaco.
  • Clean a little more of espeak on Ubuntu.
• Specific to Windows
  • Clean TeamViewer thanks to MixCool.
  • Clean Internet Explorer Typed URL history.
  • Clean Windows system MRU (most recently-used) lists.

Translations

• Add comments in source code to aid translators.
• Add Polish translation thanks to Dariusz Jakoniuk
• Update Brazilian Portuguese thanks to Alex B. Oliveira
• Update Catalan thanks to Oriol Gonzalez.
• Update Czech thanks to Roman Nornik
• Update Dutch thanks to Rob
• Update French thanks to Edouard Marquez
• Update German thanks to MixCool.
• Update Hungarian thanks to charlie and Moltenice80.
• Update Hebrew thanks to Yaron.
• Update Italian thanks to Luca Falavigna
• Update Russian thanks to Vadim Peretokin.
• Update Slovak thanks to Roman Nornik
• Update Spanish thanks to Alexsp2 and juancarlospaco

Want to help translate BleachBit?

Known issues

• On Windows when upgrading it's recommended you uninstall before installing the new BleachBit. In the future the installer will be improved.
• Internet Explorer index.dat files cannot be cleaned because they are in use (locked) by a running process. You will see a red error.
• On Windows when there is an exception (such as when a file can't be deleted), py2exe throws up an error dialog about a log file when exiting BleachBit.
• Do translations work on Windows? BleachBit 0.5.3 is in 20 languages. Please reply with a comment on the blog or a bug report.

Video

This video demonstrates BleachBit features while providing basic instructions. Shown on Ubuntu:

Shown on Windows XP:

Download

Download BleachBit now. Installation packages are ready for 19 platforms including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Windows.