Reply to: Something is eating space on my hd...

[gingerjedi]

Nero .iso files can clog up a drive pretty quick, we have several shared PC's here that are used exclusively for burning data and I can only assume that when it asks if you want to save once burned they always say yes.

[Moscow Mule]

What the heck are space lice?

These little buggers.

They come from space, and are attracted to spinning lasery disks. They get between the laser and the disk, making it unreadable.

Cunning naming really, they are from space and eat space...

[scooterscot]

Not yet - just wait for the new time machine function to start eating your disks!


Oh ZG - it's most likely the space lice, nothing to do with kaspersky.

If I upgrade I'll switch it off then, besides like most here I sure I backup often to a passive media, don't you?

What the heck are space lice?

[scooterscot]

That's because you’re to busy marveling at how pretty it is to actually notice what’s on the hard drive

Had my iMac over a year now still purrs like the first day I bought it... My productivity is far better than on the PC, albeit only once I to over the O/S changes

And yes it is pretty :O)

[daviejones]

Avast the topgallants, Jim Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad...

Splice the mainbrace...

You kids...

[Moscow Mule]

Or AVAST.....

Gaarrrrgh, Talk lioke a pirate day was laaaast month.

Garrrrrrgggggggghhhhhh

[daviejones]

Or AVAST.....

[wobbegong]

Switch to AVG?

[Moscow Mule]

75mb so far... also updating manually, however it request like every 2nd day.
Only use it on me travel laptop anyhoe...

Never have these problems on the mac...

Not yet - just wait for the new time machine function to start eating your disks!


Oh ZG - it's most likely the space lice, nothing to do with kaspersky.

[shelby68]

Never have these problems on the mac...

That's because you’re to busy marveling at how pretty it is to actually notice what’s on the hard drive

[scooterscot]

c:\windoze\all users\application data\kaspersky lab\report\

I've just found a report file (eventlog.rpt) which is 475Mb... I think it's for the bin...

Don't mind the update business. I've got it set to manual update coz I don't like things going on in the background & stealing what little download bandwidth I've got...

75mb so far... also updating manually, however it request like every 2nd day.
Only use it on me travel laptop anyhoe...

Never have these problems on the mac...

[DaveB]

Turned out that the 478Mb file was locked by Kaspersky, but there's a box buried somewhere that deletes the fecking thing... must remember to flush it regularly...

At one stage I was down to 6Mb of free space in Safe mode...

Don't know what you're worried about, no-one should ever need more than 640k

[daviejones]

I also find that turning off hibernation if you do not use it saves disk space...but not as much as deleting all that p0rn...

[TheFaQQer]

If you delete all the .flv files on your hard drive, that should free up 50GB or so.

HTH

[Clippy]

Having recently installed Vista, I've noticed that my disk usage tripled in the first few weeks as it installed updates, keeping copies of old stuff around in case I want to roll back. I told it to get rid of the backups.

"How much disk space does Vista System Restore require?

To store restore points, you need at least 300 megabytes (MB) of free space on each hard disk that has System Protection turned on. System Restore might use up to 15 percent of the space on each disk. As the amount of space fills up with restore points, System Restore will delete older restore points to make room for new ones".