Re: System Restore folder using enormous amount of memory

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Wilf said ...
> R. McCarty said ...
> > To disable it and remove the content, Use Services.Msc and set the
> > System Restore service to disabled. Boot to Safe Mode, Right Click
> > the System Volume Information Folder, Click Properties, Security,
> > Add Administrator and grant Administrator Full Privileges. Reboot
> > back to normal mode and purge the contents of SVI.
> >
> I shall try that. thanks.
>
Did it and then switched SR back on and also created a manual restore
point - there are therefore two restore points.
This is what happened subsequently:
Properties of C: says 29.8GB used
Rebooted
C: has now used 30.6GB. Properties of SVI shows it's used 882MB
Rebooted
C: has now used 31.4GB. SVI has used 1.61GB

looking in SVI, there is one sub-directory _restore{2C64a etc. }
Within _restore, there are two subdirectories, RP2 and RP3.

The contents of RP2 do not change from boot to boot.
The contents of RP3 keep getting added to on each reboot - not its
subdirectories snapshot, repository and FS, but files keep getting added
directly to RP3 as follows - about 12 or 13 files with the largest being
A0000034.sys and similarly named which is 785,348KB. Each reboot,
another set of files is added, with another Axxxxxx.sys file of around
780MB.



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Wilf
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