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Matt L

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2nd Mar 09 at 22:42

what can i do to free up space??

its mostly programs that are in the cdrive even though i have tried to have most on on my externaly (e drive).

how do i get all the programs to run from the external harddrive to free up space on the c drive?

is it just a case of copying the programs file from the c to e?

[Edited on 02-03-2009 by Matt L]

csweatherston

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2nd Mar 09 at 22:53

Uninstall, then re-install to the E drive.

it will still be searching for the programme in C when you run it otherwise.

Matt L

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2nd Mar 09 at 23:02

dammit

that sounds like alot of effort.

edit: just bin into the cdrive and hovered over all the files that are in there and theres about 8 altogehter and the biggest one is only 4.5gb the rest are all around 500mb

what the hell is taking up all of it?

[Edited on 02-03-2009 by Matt L]

Neo

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3rd Mar 09 at 00:07

Disk clean up
Defrag
Uninstall any prgrams you dont need or use

ssj_kakarot

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3rd Mar 09 at 00:23

download cccleaner

will clear up of a lot of space im guessing

csweatherston

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3rd Mar 09 at 01:11

whats the capacity of your hdd?

Sam

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3rd Mar 09 at 09:12

quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
is it just a case of copying the programs file from the c to e?

This is what I love about Mac OS X - you just move one file or delete it, that's it - no system registry bollocks, no uninstallers, no zillions of dependancies everywhere taking up valuable space on your hard drive.

moka

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3rd Mar 09 at 10:02

as ssj_kakarot said - download ccleaner! brilliant program.

Also defrag your hard drive

Remove unwanted programs

Reinstall programs on your E drive (you get option during setup.

Ren

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3rd Mar 09 at 11:07

Or just uninstall everything you don't need/want. I've recently uninstalled some games that I never play on my Tower, and I freed up 22GB... It wasn't even that many games

moka

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3rd Mar 09 at 12:26

when you say you have a 1/3 of space left.. how much is that? Because on a 40gb thats about 13.3GB (nothing really) but on a 500GB thats 166GB (LOADS)... and just for fun on a 1TB hard drive thats 333GB... lol

a_j_mair

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3rd Mar 09 at 16:12

quote:
Originally posted by Neo
Disk clean up
Defrag
Uninstall any prgrams you dont need or use

i tried this on my laptop the other day
only got 9% left

isnt any games or shit on it just autocad and i tunes

will i tunes be using up loads of space?

the gfs old computer went up the shitter due to i tunes and hundreds of viruses not wanting her to do the same to my lap top

sorry for hijack

Matt L

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3rd Mar 09 at 17:10

hd is 75gb and external is 500gb iirc.

already got cc cleaner and still hasnt solved it.

oceansoul

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3rd Mar 09 at 17:43

in my desktop ive only got 128mb left on my C:\ drive (outta 80gb)

got 2 more internals though lol

[Edited on 03-03-2009 by oceansoul]

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3rd Mar 09 at 19:46

Managed to free up 50gb of data the other day from my laptop without deleting any songs or images (or any other file that would be considered 'personal').

Use the following Windows apps:

Disk Defragmenter
Disk Cleanup

Also, open your browser and clear the browsing history too if Disk Cleanup doesn't do it.

There's so many programs you'll be able to un-install that you don't use...

Matt L

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3rd Mar 09 at 22:18

ok defragged it tonight took ages and i now have less space

Matt L

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3rd Mar 09 at 22:23

ok just free'd up half

pissing itunes had 10gb worth of info

a_j_mair

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4th Mar 09 at 13:07

how do you know what programs are not needed?

to me i could delete half the stuff installed but dont know if the programme is needed to run other software

moka

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4th Mar 09 at 13:44

Go by this rule... dont use it? UNINSTALL IT... its as simple as that. If your unsure what something is... GOOGLE IT and you will find out... If its no use to u REMOVE IT