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Bleachbit is a free and open source system cleaning tool.

Belachbit is a free and open source system cleaning tool similar to CCleaner. A quote from the project's Sourceforge page:

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there.

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How to run Bleachbit as root?

I have installed BleachBit 0.8.7. Would it be possible to kindly let me know if BleachBit can be run as administrator of my account?
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Bleach Bit - How to Wipe Free Space via Command Line?

I'm trying to figure out how to run the "wipe free disk space" via the command line on Ubuntu 16.04 with Bleach Bit. It looks like the bleachbit command utility can only wipe specific caches. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
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Can I restore my files I deleted using BleachBit?

I have deleted files from two disks using BlechBit 1.10 on Ubuntu 16.04. Is there a possibility to restore all files?
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Bleachbit Increased Disk Space

I ran the bleachbit to clean up some of the apt data but there was "free disk space" option enabled which basically took more time to overwrite the data and now the disk space is increased. I dont know where this proxy file is stored which has…
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BleachBit 3.0 does not support Ubuntu 16.04?

I'm trying to update BleachBit 2.0 to 3.0. I've downloaded the .deb package from the official site, but it requires python-scandir. I installed python-scandir from pkgs.org for Debian, and BleachBit 3.0 was successfully installed. But it does not…
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Error executing bleachbit as root

I got this error: (bleachbit:5510): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/niider/.config/ibus/bus is not root!
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BleachBit not working properly

Whenever I run bleachbit , it doesn't work fully. It creates an error message. One of the message being ' You are not superuser'. Another message is 'Errno13'. Please guide in the matter.
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Prevent Bleachbit from wiping in the terminal

I tried Bleachbit today on my Ubuntu server. But, it seems like it's trying to wipe free space, which takes a lot of time, and I don't need it. How can I make Bleachbit not to wipe free space from the command line?
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Bleachbit 1.6 fails at "Running deep scan"

14.04. I just updated BleachBit from v. 1.0-x (or similar, twas what Software Center installed about 2 months ago), to v. 1.6. What prompted the update was, 1.0 would fail (freeze, grey-out) at the "Running deep scan" operation... unfortunately now…
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Bleachbit command not clearing trash

The output of sudo bleachbit --clean system.trash is: Disk space recovered: 0 Files deleted: 0 The rubbish bin does contain items, and are still visible after running the command. Am I using the wrong syntax?
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Bleachbit on ubuntu 18.04 delete rotated logs-what does this do?

Hi I ran bleachbit on ubuntu 18.04 using the command delete rotated logs-it says on the program that this deletes old system logs-what are these old system logs? does bleachbit delete anything important using this command? Specifically if i did…
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How to prevent BleachBit from resetting file associations

After I run BleachBit, the file associations for PDF, EPUB, JPG and PNG are reset to the system's defaults (I'm using Windows, so the defaults are Microsoft Edge or Windows Image Viewer). I don't know which option to tick off in order to prevent…
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