Hi lolo69,
I can't help with latest problem but am almost certain it was caused by bleachbit. There are several reasons I don't use bleachbit. The first is that it is a very powerful program with many options. Using it properly entails a steep learning curve on systems it was designed for, even more on Puppies. I can't think of a good reason to run it on Puppies, so can't think of a good reason to undertake the learning curve.
Most operating systems are designed by either one person or a small group. Applications created to run on those are designed with the design and contents of the operating system in mind. In that context both the OS and the applications can be created to avoid the duplication of files performing the same task. For example, all icons can be located in /usr/share/icons. Puppies, on the other hand, are created by individuals following a general design with substantial leeway where files are located. For example, a binary can be located in /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /root/my-applications/bin and two or three other places. When it comes to creating applications the creator has even more discretion. Although there a several places where icons are traditionally placed --the one mentioned above, /usr/share/pixmaps and several folders in /usr/local/lib/X11/ --the number will vary as you install more themes.
Under Puppies, what bleachbit see as a duplicate file may, in fact, be one. But Program A may look for that file in one place while Program B looks for it in another.
I've used Puppies for 10 years. I've built applications. Sometimes there's an advantage placing icons in one place; sometimes another. My best guess is that such duplication of files wastes maybe 10 Mbs of hard-drive which is of no significance when you measure hard-drive space in Gigabytes. All computer applications are idiots which operate at speeds between 50% and 99% of that of light. I don't want an idiot managing my computer regardless of how fast it may be.
About the only thing which occupies considerable space without any continuing good reason are the files cached by websites on your computer so that the website doesn't have to use its resources to send you that content again. During the course of a couple hours of surfing, this can take up hundreds of Mbs on your computer: Gibabytes if you never clear web-caches. Every web-browser includes mechanisms for limiting the amount of cache your computer will store and for clearing the caches you've accumlated. And there are Addons which may give you greater control.
Since this is the sixth time you've managed to screw up your system, maybe its time to learn how to set Puppies up so you can easily recover from screw-ups. It happens to the best of us, especially to the best of us. We're the ones who try to push Puppies to their limits, to "boldly go where no one has gone before." I like that better than 'fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
From you're previous posts I know that you know how to do a Frugal Install. So I won't go into details. But this is what I do because I know I'm going to try things what might jeopardize my system:
1. When I've booted into a Puppy for the first time I setup locales, time-zone, screen-resolution and wifi. I then shut down creating a small SaveFile with the name BASE. [Because I explore, I stopped using SaveFolders having found on a couple of occasions that files were written to them even if I hadn't intended them to be].
2. On Reboot, I select Advance Menu, and from it the listing whose title contains "RAM mode\nBoot up Puppy without pupsave", hereinafter RAM mode.
3. File-browse to my Puppy Folder, create a folder within it --I name it protect-- and
copy my small SaveFile into "Protect". Come hell or high-water, I'm never going to have to run thru First Setup again. I also rename the SaveFile,
not in "Protect", usually with just an indication of the date --e.g. Jan15-- but with a descriptive name if I have special plans.
4. Reboot into Puppy, select Menu>Utility>Resize Savefile to 2Gbs. I've never needed more than that even with 'the Out house sink installed'. Reboot.
5. Install all the "Safe Applications" I want. A Safe Application is one I personally know won't screw anything up, and those where the discussion about it on my Puppy version indicates it works. Use this dedicated Puppy search:
https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=015995643 ... #gsc.tab=0.
6. Reboot in RAM mode and copy the 'Active' SaveFile into the "Protect" folder. Come hell or highwater, whatever I later do to Puppy, fixing it is just a matter of (1) booting RAM mode, (2) deleting broken SaveFile, (3) copying Protected SaveFile into where the deleted SaveFile was, and (4) rebooting.
You can't break anything except the SaveFile. All the other files Puppies use are READ-ONLY. Puppies read them, they can't write to them.
6a. (Optional). From time to time, after installing and using applications which I hadn't considered Safe when I first installed them, If I now think they are, I'll repeat Step 5, with this variation: Depending on how sure I am and how much the 'Jan15 SaveFile' in the Protect Folder is just 'taking up space', I'll either rename it or delete it. In either case, I'll copy the current 'unprotected' SaveFile into the Protect Folder.
adding say the Jan15 SaveFile to the Protect Folder and renaming the 'unprotected copy' to the current date.
Optional (Recommended):
7. Open two File-Browsers Windows: One to /root, the second to /mnt/home. Left-Press the /root/my-documents folder, then drag it onto /mnt/home. Select Move. Left-press /mnt/home/my-documents, then drag it back to /root and Select Link(relative). You can also do that to /root/downloads; others as well but there are limitations and complication I don't want to get into. Applications will still offer to Save datafiles to and open datafiles from my-documents. But now that folder is on your hard-drive. Come hell or highwater, whatever you do to Puppy, you're not going to loose files you've created.
8. Prefer SFSes to installable pets. SFSes don't get installed. If there's a problem, you just unload them.
mikesLr