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| Thread ID: 32800 | 2003-04-28 23:26:00 | Clawing back disk space | Mike S (1766) | Press F1 |
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| 139665 | 2003-04-28 23:26:00 | I run a Toshy laptop with a 10Gigabyte C drive and Windows 98, no longer new of course. Free capacity has steadily decreased - no surprise. If I look at all the files/folders exceeding 200Kb the list is daunting. All sorts of files/folders, all sorts of sizes, all sorts of extensions, few recognisable to me. The only files of any real importance to me take relatively little room and are easily identifiable, and so could be stored in back-up external Iomega HDD. Most of the byte burden is in Windows/TEMP. How can I ditch as much as possible without losing some vital Windows files? |
Mike S (1766) | ||
| 139666 | 2003-04-29 00:32:00 | try 'scanner' to see where all your space is being used up here (www.steffengerlach.de) and 'Empty temp folders', for that and other cleaning duties here (www.danish-shareware.dk) Trev |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 139667 | 2003-04-29 03:55:00 | Try empting Temporary Internet Files & deleting all the files in the "Temp" folder & also run Disk cleanup | stu140103 (137) | ||
| 139668 | 2003-04-29 04:32:00 | Nothing in the Windows\temp tree is essential (except what is "owned" by programmes being run in the current session). | Graham L (2) | ||
| 139669 | 2003-04-29 05:53:00 | You might be pleasantly surprised at how much space you might regain by deleting your index.dat files. Check out the FAQs (link top right of this page) for info on how to do it. | Susan B (19) | ||
| 139670 | 2003-04-29 06:04:00 | susan, I think spider has another problem too, as it always picks out the index.dats from jv16's backup file.. I'm not too sure what it does, but it might mean that we can't access the back ups what do you reckon? Trev |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 139671 | 2003-04-29 08:22:00 | I am not sure it would be a "problem" as such, Trev, because those index.dats can be safely deleted. They are just history urls from sites visited and are not necessary for Windows to function. If you mean that ALL of the jv16 backup files are wiped and thus non-restorable then that would be a problem, yes. I have not heard of this happening before though. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 139672 | 2003-04-29 09:57:00 | Someone on F1 put me on to Easycleaner years ago the Registry clean is good, and so is the unnecessary files, plus it has a pie chart graphic of your HD which can be broken down into subsections to see the "Hogs". In addition I use a program called Space Odysseyll that gets rid of temp and other files, that are not required. jv16 power tools is good too especially at tracing programs and Registry entries, but is a little more advanced than the previous programs. |
Rod ger (316) | ||
| 139673 | 2003-04-29 21:07:00 | >If you mean that ALL of the jv16 backup files are wiped and thus non-restorable then that would be a problem, yes. I have not heard of this happening before though. yes I did mean that, I just had a go though and I don't think spider did anything to them. I didn't have the cookie bit selected, so I'll try that later to see why I thought it was a problem in the first place.. (looks around for marbles) maybe because spider selects all the index.dats in the jv16 back up files, but perhaps spider doesn't actually delete them...? |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 139674 | 2003-04-29 21:25:00 | I've just tried that now and it did remove all the jv16 back ups from the back up screen in the prog. The back ups still seem to be there in the back up file in the directory just jv16 can't see them anymore. the settings in spider to get that result was, scan complete harddrive and delete cookies.. so if you don't want to lose those back ups don't delete the cookies or only scan windows! think that's how it goes Catch ya Trev |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
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