-solved- Where has all the disk space gone?

[greenmachine]

After two unsuccessful installs and (according to the FAQ complete) uninstalls of the SS3.4 offline installer and a successful install of the SS4.0 online installer, free harddisk space has decreased by roughly 1.2 gigabytes. I'm willing to give it up to 100 megabytes, but definitely not much more. How much does SS require and how do i remove hangovers of previous installs without reinstalling the OS?

I'm running a PIII notebook with 256MB RAM and WinXP without service packs, if that matters. Housecall says the system is clean. Thanks for any help.

Edited July 9, 2006 by greenmachine

[bobt]

Have you done a defrag, and duplicate file find? You can also go into the directory tree and see if somehow some duplication exists. My total info for 3.4 is about 32 mb.

Good luck, use the force maybe!!

Bob

[Justin42]

Did you create a backup of your library? Those can be quite disk space intensive-- if you properly installed SonicStage and it's working, you can should be able to delete the backup library files.

[greenmachine]

Thanks. Thing is, i don't even have a library, i use SS for uploading only. Will do a duplicate file search later.

[Richard]

Also when installing apps, quite often a lot stuff gets left over in the "temp" directory. Close down all apps and have a look in:

c:\documents and settings\<username>\local settings\temp

You may need to change the option to view hidden folders or just run it from the commnd line. I generally delete as much stuff as I can out of there.

[greenmachine]

Thanks, richyhu. Total temp folder size is only 50MB though with 35MB of SS leftovers.

[Richard]

I'm also wondering whether System Restore has created multiple restore points on the same day for each time you installed (3 was it?) SS.

[greenmachine]

Thanks for that. I'm such a noob, i wasn't even aware of the space needed for the system restore. I did a reinstall of the OS a few days ago and i guess the available space for the system restore will be slowly filled up now. No need to blame SS. Thanks very much for bringing it to my attention.

--Problem solved.--

[Richard]

Thanks for that. I'm such a noob, i wasn't even aware of the space needed for the system restore. I did a reinstall of the OS a few days ago and i guess the available space for the system restore will be slowly filled up now. No need to blame SS. Thanks very much for bringing it to my attention.

--Problem solved.--

Glad to hear it is ok - you can of course limit the space used by System Restore (System Restore tab of "My Computer" properties). The more you reduce it, the less restore points it can save.

You can also use the disk cleanup tool in accesories to remove all restore points except the most recent:

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[tekdroid]

A great app I often use to determine what's eating space visually. I'd be lost without it. Run it from anywhere, no bloated install needed.

[greenmachine]

Thanks tek, a great tool - great for cleaning up my desktop PC. Unfortunately it crashes after a folder delete.

[tekdroid]

Thanks tek, a great tool - great for cleaning up my desktop PC. Unfortunately it crashes after a folder delete.

Which version did you use? I'm using the last free version, 1.4.0. Not the new trial version 2.1 (which I have never tried yet, but see no reason to).

I haven't had it crash on a file/folder delete (as far as I remember...at least not in the last year). Keep in mind when deleting files in the app, they go to Recycle Bin (unless your Windows settings are different and are telling deleted files to really get deleted when you delete). So doing a Reload in the app to monitor space changes won't reflect any space savings unless they're really deleted.

Aside from that, I don't know what to tell you except I've had no troubles.