SSD issue

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 17:56

Hello,
6 month ago I've upgraded my PC with Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5 SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive.
I was advised to use this drive for the system uses only.
It worked fine up until lately!
I hardly have any free space on it!
I only installed the OS there. All the additional software was installed on my D drive. At the time of the installation I had about 15GB of spare space on it which now I don't have.
Is there anything I can do to free some space on my C drive? Seriously it has nothing on it apart from the system. (no music, no video no games)

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 18:19

Hello, I'm using Windows7 Professional 64 bit. Apart from Microsoft folders, Windows folders, ASUS system drivers and my NOD32 antivirus there is nothing else in my program files folders. I don't know what else is needed to be there and what got there by mistake. I have Adobe CS5 installed on my PC, but maybe despite the fact that it lives on my D drive it still saves something on C drive... I really don't know.

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 18:21

I don't use the hibernation on this PC. I don't even have this set up on my system =(

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 18:41

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Is your My Documents, My Photos, My Videos, etc. still located on your C: drive?
Do you have a lot of photos, music and other saved documents saved there?

I said it in the original post I DON'T have anything in those those folders. All videos, music and images are on my D drive. So my documents folder is empty.

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 18:42

Idleman said:
By checking the volume of your folders might help determine where your space has gone.

How do I check this?? I've done what you've suggested with the Hybernation... the issue is still here =(

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 18:57

Idleman said:
Double click My Computor, then right click each folder and click properties. This will tell you the size of the main folder. If a folder is bigger than you think it should be, open the folder and do the same process with all subfolders.

It says that Users has the 22gb takes space then Windows has 18 gb... but users don't have any of my personal files in there, so I really don't know what can it be!! Take up 22gbs for no reason... unless there are files in hidden folders O_O

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 19:03

Guys I've found it! folder called AppData which was hidden is 22Gbs. Can I delete everything inside it??

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 19:08

olivier renault said:
oooh no. Don't do this.

use windirstat or treesize.

BTW for the hibernation file to disappear, you need to reboot (iirc).

and move your recycle bin and page file to hdd.

how?

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 19:10

olivier renault said:
all right. running treeview, my hybernation file is 6GB, my page file is 8GB. So there you go. free 14GB.

Allright!! Tell me how to fix that!! lol

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 19:28

well did the disc clean up and it freed 4gb of space. The AppData is now 16.5 gb
Is there anything else I can do??

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 19:36

Roaming foder is 15.25 gigs =(

alterna88 · 3 Jun 2012 at 19:39

in the Roaming folder there is ADOBE folder which is the culprit. Lol
It takes 15.2 gigs of space. Can it be deleted?

alterna88 · 14 Sep 2012 at 14:19

Just another question...
Time has passed and my Adobe folder in AppData/Roaming directory is still growing. My SSD where the os is installed is only 64GB, despite the fact that all the software like CS5 etc is installed on my B:/ drive, the roaming is still increasing.
I was thinking if I uninstall the Adobe CS5 can I delete Adobe folder from Roaming?
After checking my C:/ drive AppData is the heaviest folder there and the culprit there is Adobe folder. So just a thought of getting rid of the adobe cs5 completely, deleting that folder from there, can help.