SDD Showing Fuller All of a Sudden

ignatzatsonic said:

Yep; using about 11 GB of about 11.5 allocated.

Pound on Avast. Maybe their forums or maybe Google.

It's a known issue and would be my first suspect.

Ok, what do I ask about on their forums?

Is there any way to clear that space out?

DavidE said:

Avast might have turned it on.
Check if it's still turned off.

From what i read on the Avast forum, they say the bug should be fixed in June / July ...

It's still turned off.

ignatzatsonic said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

ignatzatsonic said:

Yep; using about 11 GB of about 11.5 allocated.

Pound on Avast. Maybe their forums or maybe Google.

It's a known issue and would be my first suspect.

Ok, what do I ask about on their forums?

Is there any way to clear that space out?

You can go to System Restore config area and delete all restore points. Not sure that will help as the bug in Avast may just continue making new restore points, regardless of your efforts.

I don't use Avast and haven't looked at their forums, but David says it's discussed there.

I heard about it on this forum somewhere in the last month.

Looks like Avast has a lightning campaign underway to fix the bug by June or July, per David.

In the meantime, you can:

A: enjoy

B: use another AV

C: rend your flesh in frustration

A. Seriously?

B. A bit of a pain to uninstall the present one.

I cleaned out the restore points and reran the command prompt. Nada! So,

C. Starting to look good.

LF, you have to reduce your Maximum. This is the command:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=3%

3% is my suggestion, you can, of course choose any value in % or GB. A restore point is appr. 500MB to 1GB in size.

whs said:

LF, you have to reduce your Maximum. This is the command:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=3%

3% is my suggestion, you can, of course choose any value in % or GB. A restore point is appr. 500MB to 1GB in size.

Tried reducing it down to 0%; didn't work. Tried reducing it down to 1GB; didn't work.

I read the post on the Avast forums that DavidE indirectly linked, didn't understand a word of it (partially because apparently both paid and free versions were being discussed at the same time), so I posted with my version name and number, asking what to due with this FUBAR.

0% does not work but 1GB should work. Use the proposed 3%. You want some restore points after all.