C-Partition gets bigger and bigger

blackdot said:

Solarstarshines said:

Hi black dot welcome to 7 forums most of all windows programs will make temp logs and files you can always do a cleaning once in a while also space will be gained on c if you are useing restore points or shadow storage you can also limit shadow storage so it wont eat the drive

but typically your encoder or set up is made to temp or make log files after each encoding or burning of a file it would be a good idea to pay attention to the installer next time some of those features you can prevent just a little heads up for next time hope this works for you

So many words for zero punctuation. well, I generally do pay attention to installations. In the matter of virtualdub, there is no installation at all, as you download the whole program as a zip and place it where you want it.

LOL you want help or you trying to teach a class

Oh, yeah you were able to read it enough said

blackdot said:

Solarstarshines said:

LOL you want help or you trying to teach a class

Oh, yeah you were able to read it enough said

hey, beside my first sentence, i did answer your posting quite politely .

anyway, as i said, neither can I find any option in virtualdub to change any paths, nor is there an installation, where i could choose something.

But next time, i'll try watching which folders are changing on C.

The most common c: drive eater is shadow storage or system restore

Open an elevated command prompt and type (or paste) vssadmin list shadowstorage Look for Allocated. That's what it is currently used. Maximum is what it will ultimately use for restore points.

sygnus21 said:

I'm surprised no one mentioned this, well SolarStarShines touched on it - anyway your restore points can eat storage space as the save points grow, but you can restrict how much space is being used by changing the amount of space used.....

Right click Computer, Properties, in the left pane click System Protection, click Configure.... and click the slider bar to change how much to use. Personally I wouldn't turn it off as you may need to restore something but that's up to you.



Good luck

I am usually not recommending to reduce the shadowstorage - unless the disk is on a real squeeze. The more restore points you have, the better it is - also for recovering lost data with Shadow Explorer. For that, "old" restore points are often very handy.

I reduce the shadowstorage with this command - e.g. when I want to set it to 20GBs.

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=20GB

Note though that you lose your current restore points (except the most recent one) with that operation.

whs said:

sygnus21 said:

I'm surprised no one mentioned this, well SolarStarShines touched on it - anyway your restore points can eat storage space as the save points grow, but you can restrict how much space is being used by changing the amount of space used.....

Right click Computer, Properties, in the left pane click System Protection, click Configure.... and click the slider bar to change how much to use. Personally I wouldn't turn it off as you may need to restore something but that's up to you.



Good luck

I am usually not recommending to reduce the shadowstorage - unless the disk is on a real squeeze. The more restore points you have, the better it is - also for recovering lost data with Shadow Explorer. For that, "old" restore points are often very handy.

I reduce the shadowstorage with this command - e.g. when I want to set it to 20GBs.

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=20GB

Note though that you lose your current restore points with that operation.

That is kinda why i didn't want to admit how to do it i actually could post a link on this here ya go Is Vista Eating Up Your Hard Drive Space? | Live Slick you can read more about this and understand what it really means

seekermeister said:

The advantage of old shadow copies does not extend to those shown as ghosts in the Device Manager, they simply occupy space. If you select "Show Hidden Devices" in the View tab of the Device Manager, then to to Storage Volumes Shadow Copies and uninstall the ghosted shadow copies, leaving the non-ghosted ones, you can save some space, and it will help organize the volume when defragging.

Are you sure those ghosted copies take up any space at all?