Live and Learn and a Hard Lesson

Ubuntu Cleaner ate up all my Google Earth .kml files ....

I put Google Earth on my laptop a while back to make navigational routes for various water ways some of which were hundreds of miles long .... while I have Google Maps also installed I can't do water only land routes .... Ubuntu Cleaner has never effected anything on maps just earth .....

Not really sure how to solve this problem except maybe when I use Google Earth as soon as I finish take the latest .kml file and remove it from Google Earth and place it in a different folder and location .....

Bit of a PITA but so is remaking all these nav maps .... thank god I did make a copy of the individual maps and stored them away for future use now I need to make a back up copy of all those folders and keep in a very safe place ....

I do make a hard drive backup copy using Rescuezilla but unfortunately it was between backups ..... I mostly just wanted to let anyone who uses Ubuntu Cleaner know that it could erase items you never expected it to ..... just be-careful .... it is still a great program and I will continue to use it ....

Hi @Frog , wouldn't Stacer be better for you?

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Not sure but I will check it out .... thanks

I have bleachbit installed but rarely use it.

I prefer manual cleaning. :smiley:

sudo apt-get clean

Clears out the local repository of retrieved package files.

sudo apt-get autoclean

Removes package files that can no longer be downloaded and are thus useless.

sudo apt autoremove

Helps maintain a tidy system by ensuring that only necessary packages remain installed.

sudo apt autoremove --dry-run

This command simulates the removal process without deleting any packages, allowing you to review which packages are marked for removal.

sudo apt clean

Journal cleaning:

journalctl --disk-usage

sudo journalctl --rotate

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

I prefer manual clean which is safer.

P.S: I consider myself a beginner "newbie" on linux. I'm still learning. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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I find that quite surprising. I only use Ubuntu Cleaner to clean out old kernel detritus.
I don't know how you managed to delete that content with Ubuntu Cleaner, I find it quite safe to use compared to Bleachbit. Did you clean out browser cache with it or something?

I also use all those terminal commands to keep apt and journalctl space confined. But with due care when using autoremove.

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DUH .... OMG .... thanks zab what a total disaster I created by not paying attention to what I was deleting so I got no one to blame but myself and here I was blaming the poor old Martians .... LOL ....

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Do you not have backup up that data?

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The only backup I have is if I run Rescuezilla and do a complete hard disk copy which I do every week or so .....