Re: Help.. Running out of hard drive room
- From: aldboomer <aldboomer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:50:11 -0800
hello... i had a problem simular to yours at one time... I down loaded
www.treesize.com and it showed me exactly where the "large" files were
that were filling up my 80 G hard drive......
....... just an idea :o)...............it helped me out....
it narrowed my search down to "zone alarm".. which i had at that time.. but
some glitch with zone alarm DID fill up my hard drive, and like i said, with
"treesize" it showed me what and where the files were that were growing.
"Lem" wrote:
Lem wrote:.
Darrell S wrote:And just so I don't lose sight of what apparently started your problem,
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Darrell S wrote:I'll try that delete System Restore Point. Don't have Zone Alarm but
This morning I took my son's advice and used the Consolidate featureWhen you used DiskCleanup, did you choose the option to delete all
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!!
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
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.
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�
--
Lem MS MVP -- Networking
To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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