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My Slave drive keeps going to 14mb and then saying low disc space, even though, each time it says it, I delete a file over 2.5 GB big, its done it 6 times now, the total of my deletions is way over 14mb, so to get that message stumps me, especialy as Ive deleted way over 20 gb for a 700 mb file, i know if I deleted 1gb, by lunch it would be on 14mb again.

Thanks.
 
Firstly turn off System Restore for that drive and reduce the size of the recycle bin. If neither of these help then you need to find out what is writing stuff to the disk, something like Tree Size should show you which directories are using the space.

EDIT: When you say you delete a 2.5Gb file each time is it the same file you're deleting?
 
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rpstewart said:
Firstly turn off System Restore for that drive and reduce the size of the recycle bin. If neither of these help then you need to find out what is writing stuff to the disk, something like Tree Size should show you which directories are using the space.

EDIT: When you say you delete a 2.5Gb file each time is it the same file you're deleting?
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No each time I got the Low disk error I deleted a different file.
Thanks.
 
I was going to say are you trying to delete the swap file but it appears not...

What's the name of the file(s)? and where was it in the directory structure?

Is the system clean as far as virus scan is concerned (unlikely but possible cause).
 
Solari said:
I was going to say are you trying to delete the swap file but it appears not...

What's the name of the file(s)? and where was it in the directory structure?

Is the system clean as far as virus scan is concerned (unlikely but possible cause).
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I scanned it for virus, no viruses, that H/d is
for films, basically a DivX film is roughly 800 mb,
changing it to a DVD, is roughly 2.5 gb, all my authored
films are in a authored directory on the same disk,
so while downloading a 800 mb film, I got the error,
so I went into my authored folder and deleted a film,
I've now done that at least 6 times, the only reason its stopped
is because it finished.
 
thats your problem your downloading a film while re-encoding a divx -> dvd. try and set in your downloading options to "pre-allocate" the file space, so instead of it filling up space on your drive while it downloads its already taken space instead. also how big is this drive?
 
sja360 said:
thats your problem your downloading a film while re-encoding a divx -> dvd. try and set in your downloading options to "pre-allocate" the file space, so instead of it filling up space on your drive while it downloads its already taken space instead. also how big is this drive?
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Its not that, the HD is a 250 gb, I used about 150, so I was very surprised to get the Low disk error, I knew I had a spare 100 gb, and I've done it for years now, this is the first time its done that, now all my deleted files and the space I had has gone, it stops on 14mb, so theres about 170 gb somewhere.
very strange.
thanks
 
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i had a similar problem once. i used a folder sizing program to find out that some stupid shopping adware/spyware was creating reports continuously and taking up all my space. i cant remember the name, or how exactly i got rid of it. but that might help.
 
rpstewart said:
Firstly turn off System Restore for that drive and reduce the size of the recycle bin. If neither of these help then you need to find out what is writing stuff to the disk, something like Tree Size should show you which directories are using the space.

EDIT: When you say you delete a 2.5Gb file each time is it the same file you're deleting?
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I turned of System restore, but how do you limit the bin.
thanks.
 
From my experience, anything that downloads patches,decompresses or encodes or disc/patch image files has a very bad habit of using either the system drive or it's own drive for creating temporary files (games and cd burnign apps are an extremely common culprit for this).

What you need to do is set the preference on the application(s) you are using to a drive that has at least 2x the space needed to accompish it's tasks. (temp space is needed for decrompression/encoding).

If you don't have space then use something like PartitionMagic to re-jig your partitioning scheme.

As for bin ... ^^ What he said :D
Cheers
 
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According to what I can find on Google they're something to do with Windows Live Messenger and seem to be created whenever you log on. It looks like they can be removed safely but there doesn't appear to be a way of preventing them being created.
 
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