Overview
Cleanup lists, examine and lets you delete items in the RAM that are not associated with any one application on your device; items that DO NOT share a Creator ID with one of the installed applications.
Why do I need Cleanup?
When you launch applications, from the built-in memory or the Expansion Card, they save data (files and settings) onto your device.
This data is used by the application when active, and normally, will be deleted when you delete the application itself.
Each and every application on your device has to have a unique Creator ID which has to be registered with Palm.
Applications, in general, use their Creator ID to tag the data they save. When you choose to delete an application via the normal delete function (or using a 3rd party launcher); the system knows which files and preferences it needs to delete by comparing them to the application's Creator ID.
To sum it all up: The Creator ID uniquely identifies each application including its files and settings.
However, some applications save (hide) items under a different Creator ID than their own; these items will remain on your device, occupying your precious handheld memory for good.
Leftover files and preferences survive hard-resets; the HotSync Manager restores them one by one to your device.
Use Cleanup to get rid of them once and for all, use Uninstall Manager (or Uninstall Hack) to ensure that newly installed applications will be completely removed when they are no longer needed.
How To Use
As mentioned above; Cleanup lists items in the RAM that are not associated with any one application on your device.
View Selector - Select the desired view:
Saved Preferences/Unsaved Preferences
List of records in the corresponding Preferences Database that are not associated with any application in the RAM or the expansion card.
List Items
Before adding an item to the list, Cleanup tries to locate an application (in the RAM or the expansion card) that has the same Creator ID.
If a matching application is not found, the item is added to the list. Then, Cleanup looks for the item in Uninstall Manager's database to see if it was monitored.
If the item could not be found in the database, Cleanup looks for the item's description in the Signature File.
List Legend (Tap the Menu item >> Help >> Legend)
Items monitored by Uninstall Manager (or Uninstall Hack) and are listed underneath one of the applications in its monitored items database file. Monitored items will be deleted when you uninstall their parent application.
Items listed in the Signature File.
Select one of these items and tap Details to see the item's description in the Signature File.
Items not monitored by Uninstall Manager and are not listed in the Signature File.
List Options
Delete
Delete the selected item from your device.
Backup
When deleting items, the Backup option guarantees you will never lose important information; since deleted items can ALWAYS be restored.
Note: Backing up files requires a device with an expansion card slot and a card (MemoryStick, SD, etc) with enough free space to copy the file.
Details
Select an item from the list an tap Details to see more information and access advanced features.
Details Dialog - Information
Tap the Signature and Monitored fields to display the complete text.
Details Dialog - Options
Search
The Search function will help you discover if the item was intentionally saved under a different Creator ID by one of the installed applications.
Please Note: For new applications, use Uninstall Manager.
Uninstall Manager makes sure that newly installed applications will be completely removed when they are no longer needed.
Search Options
Speed
Normal, Fast and Faster: Set how many bytes should be skipped when reading an application's code resource to find the Creator ID value: 1 to 4.
There is not a good reason to change the search speed to a different value other than Normal.
Search ROM
Search ROM (Read Only Memory) databases.
Search Card
Search for the Creator ID in applications on the expansion card.
Search Process
Cleanup opens each and every application, then, it searches for the selected item byte value (Creator ID) in its code resources.
Cleanup reads the database "byte by byte" to find the searched value.
When Cleanup finds the value within an application, it will be added to the results page.
Results Page
[Number of times] Application Name [Application Creator ID]
In the results page, Cleanup lists the number of times the searched value has been found next to the application.
The greater the number is, the more likely the item belongs to that application.
Safe List
Move the selected item's Creator ID to the Safe List. The Safe List is accessible via the Menu item My Safe List
By moving Creator IDs to the Safe List, you can concentrate on the unknown items, the ones you're not sure if you need or not: Cleanup will not list items saved under a Creator ID that appears in the Safe List.
Advanced Users
The following information is intended for advanced users only, and is not required to properly operate the software.
Menu
Settings
Change the program's settings
Application Types
Define types that determine if a specific file is an application: A database file creates other databases and saves preferences.
Cleanup tries to locate an application database for every item on your device before adding it to the list.
Normally, you don't need to modify this list, but if you want to hide certain files from Cleanup, you can add the files' type attribute to the Application Types list.
Signature File
The Signature File is a growing collection of known 'hidden' Creator IDs that certain applications use to save their data and of other system components that are not associated with a single application (for instance, the Graffiti Library which is needed by all applications).
Example: The Signature field shows that the selected item (a Saved Preferences record with Creator ID: tsml) belongs to the Palm OS; and in this case, the item is needed on your device and should not be deleted. On other occasions, you may see that the item belongs to an old game you didn't like, a Time Management application you once tried, etc.
Help expanding the Signature File:
When you discover (using Uninstall Manager/Hack or a different method) that one of the installed applications saved hidden items on your device, or identified a system file that gets listed by Cleanup; please use the following form to send its details and it will be added to the next Signature File release.
The Signature File will expand every update, adding more hidden Creator IDs that can be easily identified. Download the latest Signature File.
ALWAYS backup files and preferences before deleting them.
If one of your applications loses its settings, you can always restore it back to the way it was.
Registration Benefits
When registering, besides supporting this shareware and its future development, you get UNLIMITED SUPPORT via email.
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