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So - what's the inside story on these Matryoshkas ?
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Vod(ka) makes you ask that?
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I have been using Piriform's CCleaner for years to get rid of pesky tracking cookies and to clean out unwanted files from my browser cache. But after installing Windows 10, plus all my apps, CCleaner suddenly started to skip cleaning cookies and the cache. This had me perplexed and I suspected that Edge had something to do with it.
As it turns out, Windows 10 and Edge had nothing to do with the problem. I had installed the latest version of Dropbox on the machine, and when I purged the machine of Dropbox, CCleaner started working with 100% success rate, as it should. Apparently Dropbox was at times blocking CCleaner's access to cookies and the cache? Don't ask me to explain it, I don't understand why the h*ll Dropbox has to interfere with these files.
Anyway, CCleaner has far greater utility for me than DropBox, so I just have to figure out another way to distribute photos to family members - the only use I had for Dropbox.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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So don't install dropbox: just use the web interface to upload. I don't have it installed (I forgot after I reloaded my PC) and that way you get the best of both world.
The only thing the app did was automatically backup pictures if I recall correctly - which I didn't want it to do anyway.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Cornelius Henning wrote: ...when I purged the machine of Dropbox, CCleaner started working with 100% success rate...
Which, at this point, is merely a coincidence. Only after you've gone through AT LEAST two iterations of installing/uninstalling Dropbox can you know for sure.
This reminds me of a guy that I went to college with. His program was acting strangely, so he added the obligatory printf() statements to see what was going on. After that, his program started working "correctly." He was satisfied. 
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Quote: Which, at this point, is merely a coincidence
I doubt it. I battled for two weeks to resolve the issue, and it suddenly disappeared when I got rid of DropBox. There is no way I am re-installing DropBox just to prove my point. I have a perfect setup at the moment and I am not going to ruin it! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Gawd I hate it when that happens!
I had it with a GEC4070 FORTRAN compiler where if an IF was the first line of a subroutine and you increased the value of the same variable in the succeeding line by two it subtracted instead. Needless to say, adding PRINT statements fixed the problem, so my (young at the time) brain started twisting itself in knots...
Took me a couple of days to go to the Ops staff with proof and be told "yeah, we know about that one". B*st*rds! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh my! You've brought back memories!
An instrument controller wasn't incrementing quite right, but in the debug mode I could see that it was. Drove me crazy until I learned to throw the nooptimize switch on the (FORTRAN) compiler.
But it was the print statement remark that really set the memory cascade: I seeded the odd empty print statement a bunch of times to get code to work, learning this when I put in print lines for intermediate values: things suddenly worked. Appropriate trial-and-error.
Amazing how there can be such parallels in lives when, ultimately you turned to Gin and I to Single Malts. Go figure!
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You could notify Piriform. Just a thought...
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You are right. I will do so.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I tried to notify Piriform, but their website where issues are reported, is broken. In any case, my main concern in posting this, was to share it with CP users, in case it can help some of our fellow members.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: my main concern
My main concern would be letting Piriform know that there is a conflict between their software and Dropbox. My second concern would be to let CP and the world know. Getting the problem fixed is ALWAYS #1 priority for me, both in my professional and personal life.
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When their web page where you report issues crashed when I tried to report the issue, I did sent send them an email. I have done all I feel obligated to do with regards to Piriform.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Quote:
Writing for the Daily Mail, ...
In other words, it's utter bollocks.
Look out for tomorrow's headline: "Black Pudding Causes Cancer". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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What, you mean it may not be true? 
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No, food-related headlines[^] are always true! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: "Black Pudding Causes Cancer And Lowers House Prices - Immigrants Eat It!".
This is the Daily Wail, after all.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Didn't pork scratchings become a superfood last year?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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That which kills the weak, strengthens the species. 
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Apparently eating black pudding in the days before a colon cancer test will often lead to false positive results[^]
I love the black beauties, especially the famed Bury black puddings.
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Chris Quinn wrote: Bury black puddings
You may need to explain to our overseas listeners that that's not an instruction! 
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They can experience the joys themselves![^]
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