temp-cleaner

🧹 Temp Cleaner

A Python script (with GUI) that scans and removes temporary files from Windows system locations to free up disk space.

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✨ Features

• Scans standard Windows temp directories (%TEMP%, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp, etc.)
• Lists files with sizes before any deletion
• Shows total space that will be freed
• One-click clean operation
• Error-safe: skips locked files gracefully

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🖥️ Tech Stack

Category	Technology
Language	Python 3
GUI	tkinter, customtkinter
File System	os, shutil, pathlib (built-in)

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🚀 Getting Started

pip install customtkinter
python "Cleaner 2.0.py"

⚠️ Windows only — uses Windows-specific temp folder paths.

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📝 What I Learned

• Scanning system directories safely
• Handling PermissionError when files are locked by running processes
• Calculating total file sizes with os.path.getsize()
• Building a practical system utility from scratch

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Made with ❤️ as part of a learning journey