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Karsteeee Jun 28, 2018 @ 4:58am
CCleaner & Steam?
I ran CCleaner while downloading Bioshock 2, completely oblivious that it may delete the temp files it creates while it is downloading. So far, it's downloading fine... it's at 5.0 GB / 9.7 GB. Should I be concerned? Do I need to redownload the game?

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Forcen Jun 28, 2018 @ 5:05am 
Originally posted by ExKarstal:
it may delete the temp files it creates while it is downloading.
Where does this worry come from?

CCleaner can do lots of things, this is not a standard thing really. Let it download and see if it works, should be fine.

Steam doesn't download games to the temp directory, it puts it all in the steam folders.
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Karsteeee Jun 28, 2018 @ 5:14am 
Originally posted by Forcen:
Originally posted by ExKarstal:
it may delete the temp files it creates while it is downloading.
Where does this worry come from?

CCleaner can do lots of things, this is not a standard thing really. Let it download and see if it works, should be fine.

Steam doesn't download games to the temp directory, it puts it all in the steam folders.
I've looked up if running CCleaner while downloading a steam game interferes with the download in any way... apparently someone said that while a game is downloading, it creates temp files, and CCleaner deletes them.
Still downloading fine... I just clicked analyze in CCleaner to see what might have gotten erased, the only thing that really caught my eye was store.steampowered.com cookies in Google Chrome.
I'm just worried that once it finishes downloading and I start playing, I encounter bugs or the game freezes because CCleaner deleted some of the files.
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Cathulhu Jun 28, 2018 @ 5:39am 
If CCleaner would have done something to your download, then it would have already failed.
If you think your files have been corrupted in some way, you can verify your gamefiles through the Steamclient.
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ReBoot Jun 28, 2018 @ 6:07am 
CCleaner is actually notorious for messing up Steam. Offline mkde broken, family sharing broken, web browser stuck as CCleaner damaged its cache, those all happened. My personal suggestion is to ditch CCleaner as Piriform tried a bit too hard to look incompetent.
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