low disk space!!!

hello!!

i hav recently been downloadin a lot of music an music production software....the only problem now is that i am getting reminders about low disk space...as expected,i click where it asks in the tray,and the disk clearup starts.....it seems to be stalling at the 3rd progress bar tho....i checked in the processes menu an it show that the cpu usage for the process is around 93 percent....but nothing is happening!!!

does any1 have any ideas

cheers, Griogair

 

sorry to ask again...but i have 230mb of disk space left and i cant get my disk to cleam itself up....does anyone have any sugestions at all please?

thanks

 

Hi Griogair,

This may help: Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files. You should also keep in mind that you need least 15% free disk space to be able to defragment.

Nick

 

That is probbly why you can't do anything. Not enough space. You will need to delete some files.

 

ehem!!

im not saying im a complete ideot.....but say in theory i deleted volumecaches.reg before making a copy.....wot say would a person do to aquire a copy....

sorry!!

Griogair!!

 

Copy and paste the following into Notepad and save it as volumecaches.reg:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files]
@="{B50F5260-0C21-11D2-AB56-00A0C9082678}"
"Priority"=dword:0000012c


Nick

(Note that there needs to be a trailing blank line in .reg files. That means you have to press Enter twice after pasting into Notepad).

 

2,026,600 cleared!!

yas!!

cheers guys!!
that cclean worked well aswell....i only had 230mb and it brought it uoo to a whopping 534mb!!

doesnt seem loads,but it was enough to stop ma comp going loopy when i did anything like open more than 1 ie window!!

thanks a million!!

Griogair!!

 

oh!! sorry i meant to ask!!

my comp came with its harddrive split into 3 drives for some reason.... bood,backup,and recovery.....c drive is the only one that seems to be going down...any way to eutalise the space on backup which it sitting with 12gb unused!!

griogair thanks

 

Why not move your downloads to the backup partition? That would be less risky than resizing or redistributing free space.

Nick

 

surely tho if i transfer a folder of music to backup it will just copy there and there will also still be a copy in c drive ??

 

You should be able to delete the source folder/files once they have been copied.

Nick

 

worked a treat!! thanks!!...was just really frustrating when the laptop boasted 80gb harddrive and 60 of it was as good as useless!!

now ill hav the chance to free up a bit of space for my next wee project!!!............hmmmmm.....cubase or Reason??!?!?!?

cheers once again!!

Griogair