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    bleachbit crash on freespace wipe recovery

    Running Bleachbit 1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04
    While doing a wipe freespace operation, system crashed due to overheating. Now I have a 35 GB file at home level that can only be from that. System appears to be functioning normally, but I am leery of restarting Bleachbit and/or trying to delete that huge file.
    Is there any recovery procedure needed?
    Have dug around here and in other forums and found no answer.

    thanks

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    Re: bleachbit crash on freespace wipe recovery

    I saw other people reporting that the wipe freespace operation doesn't work very well and gives some huge files. It is labeled as experimental, right? You could try renaming that huge file or move it somewhere else. If everything still works, it's safe to delete it.

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    Re: bleachbit crash on freespace wipe recovery

    It is an experimental feature and does crash so avoid it. The huge file may be because some wiping portion got renamed by Ubuntu due to the crash. Check if all ur home files are present and then delete the file, its ok. But delete it using gksudo nautilus and then delete, its safe. No system file can be that large

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