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Grav
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how to free up space?
#1719722 - 07/15/03 10:48 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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is there a good way to see which folders are taking up the most space without going in and looking at each one individually?
any other tips for freeing up some gigs?
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Lana
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: Grav]
#1720756 - 07/16/03 06:48 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Do a search on your computer for "cookies". You'll find a folder thats contatined with a bunch of things you don't need. You can delete everything in that folder (its all of the little pics you download off of the net, look at a few and you'll see).
Do another search for " *tmp " whenever you put a * behind a file extension, it will look for every file with that extension. *tmp files are temporary files. You can delete all of those too
You can always removed unused programs, and burn things onto CD that you don't "need" on your machine. Removing programs and burning info onto CD's will free up the most space.
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: Lana]
#1720786 - 07/16/03 07:01 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
whenever you put a * behind a file extension, it will look for every file with that extension.
Ummmm.... isn't that in Front of a file extension?
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: Lana]
#1720788 - 07/16/03 07:02 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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You can also remove these:
*.gid *.bak *.old
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: Jackal]
#1720825 - 07/16/03 07:21 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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*.cab can be removed also as long as you have a backup on CD.
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: Pinhead]
#1721322 - 07/16/03 11:10 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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There's a program named TreeSize. It will show you exactly where all the space on your drive is being used. http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/index.shtml edit: the freeware works great: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
Edited by AnimaAnimus (07/16/03 11:12 AM)
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: AnimaAnimus]
#1722076 - 07/16/03 03:48 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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There are a lot of progs to show where your drive space went. If you are not a techie or don't feel comportable just use the disk cleanup tool from drive propories. This will also compress files that have not been accessed from a while. If you surf a lot temporary internet files start to suck up tons of space.
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: Lana]
#1729959 - 07/19/03 11:29 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cookies don't take up any real space.. you would be best with deleting ALL THE PORN AND MUSIC.
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: Grav]
#1738776 - 07/22/03 04:08 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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set compression on any folder that you dont use very much. I wouldn't recommend compressing the whole disk, though.
Also, clean out your temp directory. Delete *.tmp as well
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: wingnutx]
#1742452 - 07/23/03 07:35 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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set compression on any folder that you dont use very much.
how do you do that?
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: iglou]
#1743619 - 07/24/03 01:43 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Right click folder, Properties, Advanced, there's a checkbox there.
I am not sure if that works in FAT32, it shows up on NTFS on 2k, XP should probably be the same.
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: PjS]
#1743843 - 07/24/03 06:48 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cookies don't take up any real space
This can be a bit misleading. If a user has 1000 cookies, and each cookie is only 32 bytes long, then you would think the space taken is only 32,000 bytes. Most browsers, however, store each cookie as a seperate file in the file system. A single file takes up at least one sector of disk space regardless of the filesize. If your blocking factor used by your OS is large, your 32,000 bytes can easily turn into a million bytes or more. Granted, even 1 meg compared to a typical .mp3 file is next to nothing, but still something to consider.
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[Re: Seuss]
#1744452 - 07/24/03 11:32 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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AnimaAnimus
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: matts]
#1744600 - 07/24/03 12:33 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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invest in a new drive. it'll save you much time headache
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mntlfngrs
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: matts]
#1750911 - 07/26/03 02:49 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
matts said: Compression is a great way to fuck up the filesystem. I would not recomend you compress anything.
I have never had a problem with NTFS and compression.
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: matts]
#1755664 - 07/28/03 09:46 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Defragging also gives you a few megabytes sometimes. Also it makes everything go a little smoother.
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: mntlfngrs]
#1755729 - 07/28/03 10:19 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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compressing an entire drive is asking for trouble. compressing individual files or directories has never caused me problems. I do it all the time on high-load production servers.
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mntlfngrs
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Re: how to free up space? [Re: wingnutx]
#1762338 - 07/30/03 09:59 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just set up to compress files that have not been accessed in a certain amount of time.
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