Re: Help.. Running out of hard drive room

Lem wrote:
Darrell S wrote:
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Darrell S wrote:
This morning I took my son's advice and used the Consolidate feature of iTunes to copy my songs just for iTunes so it could always find them. It just wouldn't stop. It filled up my hard drive. I have a 80GB internal hard drive, use WinXP Home, and it normally works fine.

I couldn't even get Windows to load so I used the Safe Mode to delete some stuff to make room for a normal boot. I rebooted in normal mode and moved over 11GB of mp3s to my external hard drive. Somehow it only gave me around 8GB empty space. I tried moving my Art folder (about 1.5GB) to my external drive but it hung up on a file "FW_FW_Bill Gates tribute...". It was of 0 size and wouldn't delete. I was finally able to manually copy that folder minus "FW_FW_Bill Gates tribute...". to my external drive and in DOS was able to use remdir/s/q to delete the entire folder on my hard drive. But that didn't increase my useable internal hard drive space.

I have manually gone through Explorer trying to find too large folders to delete them but they all seem rather normal.
I have used Properties to monitor my hard drive space and it has progressively reduce the free space at about 500MB/hour.
My Norton virus scan shows no viruses present.

Help!!

When you used DiskCleanup, did you choose the option to delete all but the most recent System Restore point? Do you have Zone Alarm? I don't know if this has been fixed, but as of last June there was a bug in ZA that caused SR points to grow (and grow ...) http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=34871


When you searched for large folders, did you include system and hidden folders in your search? You should, and if you find that that's where the problem is, post back with name(s) of the large files and/or folders and someone will be able to give you more focused help.
Lem MS MVP -- Networking
I'll try that delete System Restore Point. Don't have Zone Alarm but do have Rollback RX Pro. If I can't find otherwise I'll try removing it. If push comes to shove I ;have Drive Image 7 that I can boot to the CD and use my backup on my external hard drive to re-write my hard drive. If that doesn't work my last shot will be to reformat and then use DI 7 to re-write stuff. My last image was 11-13-06 but I can copy more recent stuff to my external hard drive. ;


I don't know anything about Rollback Rx Pro, but any application that claims to provide a "snapshot of the entire system and data" would seem to have the potential to create large files. If you are also using Windows System Restore, you may get into a recursive situation where you are backing up backups of backups, etc., especially if you are creating the snapshot on the same drive you are protecting.

You might want to check with Horizon DataSys support for Rollback Rx.

And just so I don't lose sight of what apparently started your problem, just how big is your iTunes library now? And it's a silly question, but after you moved the various files to your external drive, did you run Disk Cleanup again? You might want to head over to the iTunes forums and ask there if "consolidation" is known to cause the kind of problem you seem to have. http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=149
Note: "A 'Consolidate' via iTunes will copy your known Library to the new folder you designate. Copy - not move. This is an important distinction." http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1731107&#1731107


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