Re: how to move location of default database???? plz!

I don't know that it isn't optimized at all. I was speculating about reasons that mine might have been hundreds of MB large at one time. Pure speculation; that's all.

You really need to get a larger drive. No recent version of Windows does well when you have less than about 50MB to 100MB of free space. While you're not that low, you don't even want to experience how sluggish Windows gets if you get there.

Common things like Windows Update, Temporary Internet Files, temp files for applications, etc. can eat up a few hundred or even a gig without you even realizing it.

Dale

"trehug" <trehug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:40216A0A-F4DD-48F3-9D0A-9E4F8450E7B4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hi
whenever i have some database file that may *expand* to an unknown size,
like my email db or mp11's db - i want it on a different drive than my system.
my swapfile is off my system drive too, and i my system is really steady.

the system drive had about 750mg free till last week, something happened, i
changed to mp11 about a month ago, i installed ms-publisher temporarily...
next thing ya know i get a slew of "office" auto updates, and another slew
of security updates, literally dozens - my system drive is down to 200.

so i go cleaning up, u know -> remove restore points and uninstall-files -
BEFORE realizing that the updates were for ms-office- and i end up now, not
being able to back out those updates, and i don't even have office.

so yeah, i'm now clamming around to find some space on my drive. i already
had it pretty stripped down that's the problem.

...might have to go back to 10

i have a question for you then - if as stated above is true, and the mp11
database is not very well optimized - then why not? i thought - surely the
database would be tweaked, as one of the PRIMARY customer experience factors
(speedwise)-
what's up with that?

thanks for the registry tip i'm in for that - need to watch that space.
/trevor



"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


You can also save lots of space:
* Clear out the %temp% folder
* turn off hibernation and get rid of c:\hiberfil.sys

Beyond that, I totally agree. More disk space makes life better. 500GB
sounds like a nice good baseline for any system. ;-)

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"Dale" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mine was 350 MB last I looked for 10,000 tracks. I think it is because > of
> tracks being added and deleted over time and the data being remembered > or
> perhaps the database does not resize and reuse space well.
>
> One question we both neglected is how the OP thinks that 200 MB is > going
> to solve his out of space problem. These days, if I don't have 10+ GB > of
> free space on a drive, I start getting nervous. He really should be
> looking elsewhere to recover more space or looking for a larger drive.
>
>
> Dale
>
> "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:htvut25ljv1m8v2o539ta5pco84jq3a5ih@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:26:05 -0800, trehug
>> <trehug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>hi - i'm running out of spa-a-a-ce!
>>>
>>>mp11 on xp.
>>>can i change the location of my:
>>> LocalSettings/Application Data/Microsoft/MediaPlayer
>>>folder?
>>>
>>>it's like over 200mb - i want to put it on another drive - anyone >>>help?
>>>thanks /trev
>>
>>
>> I can't think of a way to get round your problem of only having 200MB
>> free on the windows drive. However I'm curious how your library got
>> this big ? I've got 12000 MP3's here which makes a DB of about 35 meg.
>>
>> Approximately how many media files do you have that requires 6x that ?
>>
>> Cheers - Neil
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
>




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