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Chips8
06-26-2011, 05:15 AM
I'm running 8.4, version 1.1106g.

I have an 80GB SSD (my C: Drive) I think I had about 14GB free and I ran Backup & Restore and I set the Backup to go to my D: Drive.

But somehow it caused my C: Drive to go from about 14GB free to 7GB free. How can I find that Backup file and undo it? I assume the Backup somehow must have impacted my C: Drive.

Also, I don't use SitNGoWizard. Can I delete that from my HEM to save space?

fozzy71
06-26-2011, 01:02 PM
It writes temporary files to the C: drive during the backup process.

I use windirstat.info to find the things taking the most/large spaces on my drives (I have a 160gb SSD). I also run ccleaner utility occasionally to clean out all my temp/garbage files.

No, you can not 'remove sngwiz from HM'. HM takes very little space on a drive compared to the original/archived hands and PostgreSQL Database. The database is the largest of all of them.

Chips8
06-26-2011, 03:01 PM
I should have mentioned that when I was backing up, there was an error that caused the whole thing to stop. So the temp files must be stuck in my C: drive somewhere.

I noticed that windirstat says that I have a file in: C:\User\AppData\Local\Temp\33653551-b9c2-4468-a031-213238af9540\dbs\holdemmanager.sql that is 12.6GB!

1) Would that be the temp file? Can I delete that?

2) I also have a file called: C:\Windows\winsxs\Backup that is 543MB. Can I delete that?

3) Also, I noticed that pagefile.sys takes up 8GB. Should I delete/disable it? I read that I maybe should delete that for my SSD but I’m not sure.

thanks!

fozzy71
06-26-2011, 05:25 PM
1 - Yes

2 - I don't know, but I doubt it.

3 - I don't know, but somehow I doubt it. My pagefile is 9gb and hiberfil is 6.7gb and I have not done anything with them.