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FR: Add user-configurable "extra install locations" setting #108

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Nightblade opened this issue Nov 9, 2021 · 1 comment
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FR: Add user-configurable "extra install locations" setting #108

Nightblade opened this issue Nov 9, 2021 · 1 comment

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@Nightblade
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Nightblade commented Nov 9, 2021

Example Use Case (Windows)

  1. User wants to clean their Steam installation, but it's on a non-system drive, let's say F:\Games.
  2. User adds this location to an "extra install locations" setting in BleachBit.
  3. All cleaners that search in C:\Program Files and/or C:\Program Files (x86) now automatically search the "extra install locations" too.
  4. "Steam" cleaner will now search C:\Program Files\Steam, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam and F:\Games\Steam

Advantages

  • Allows for non-standard software installation locations without the need to edit every cleaner file.

Notes

  • Could probably be named better...

edit: more specific example

@Nightblade Nightblade changed the title FR: Add user-configurable "extra base locations" setting FR: Add user-configurable "extra install locations" setting Nov 9, 2021
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az0 commented Nov 10, 2021

This is related to an under-the-hood feature called multi-value variables, but this feature would allow the user to specify extra values for environment variables. For example, Steam often uses the environment variable %ProgramFiles% which could also expand to the user-supplied F:\games

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