remove junk files from external drive

[sys-eng]

Looking for a tool to remove junk files from external drive such as a system drive mounted in a USB dock.

There is CleanMyDrive for IOS but what about Windows? CCleaner does not work on external drives.

 

[Megaarch]

quite sure the other day I used junkfile remover, included in Gegeek, on a slaved drive.

 

[sys-eng]

I was not aware of that site but did not find any program called junkfile.

 

[Megaarch]

You have to download the GEGeek Tech Toolkit from the site. And under Maintenance, Open Glary Utilities>Modules>Disk Cleaner. Select the drives or drives you want to scan and clean.

Or you could just download Glary Utilities separately, but GEGeek Toolkit is awesome.

EDIT: Just checked the installed Glary Utilities V4.0.0.53. Seems selecting Disks isn't available?
The version in GEGeek that I have is Glary Utilities 2.56.0.1882 (portable), which you are able to select by Disk.

 

[sys-eng]

OK, I will check that out. I already tried Glary (latest version) but it would not do it. I will not be at my office for ~ 3 weeks, and all I have to do this on is a hard drive dock via USB to a laptop.

 

[sys-eng]

JunkFile remover's cleaning consisted of emptying the Recycle Bin. I have found no Windows based cleaner for external drives.

I am now taking ownership of the files through file security which will likely take more than a day - - the very reason I wanted to delete junk files first. Changing security permissions on over a million files takes a long time. After 5 hours, the JAVA script files are still updating. I suspect there was a 100+ GB of trash on this computer because I know the user and she did not keep that much user files on the computer.

 

[Megaarch]

Maybe they should change the name to Recycle Bin Emptier. Sorry didn't know that is all it did. Good to know though.

 

[sys-eng]

Perhaps someone else has tool to do this.

 

[Mick]

This might do it: http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=69 You need to set the 'Options' but it does see my external drives.

 

[altrenda]

You don't really say what the purpose is, butif this is a one time deal, instead of taking ownership, why not mount the drive under Linux and delete the files from there?