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Culprit found and fixed...
Feb. 20th, 2012 04:37 pmI hadn't really noticed the erosion of free disk space on my system disk until Backblaze opened a dialog box on my desktop to warn me about the situation (the utility apparently needs a certain amount of free disk real estate to operate properly).
I opened WinDirStat, which is a freeware utility that shows what's taking up how much room on your drives, and pointed it at my C: drive. It took a few minutes to scan the drive, but when the scan was complete, the program reported that I only had about 60 GB of files on the disk, which had to be wrong because there's 160 GB of space in the C: partition.
Well, it turns out that despite having system restore protection turned off (I like to live dangerously), there were about 100 GB of restore-point files saved on the drive. After backing up a drive image—in case my plan went awry—I went in, deleted them all, and now all that space is free again.
In other news, I'm not operating at 100% strength right now, probably the result of driving myself so hard over this past weekend. After delivering three packages this morning, my project manager called to tell me to take it easy, which I am attempting to do (at least relatively speaking). I have finished the last 650 words or so of The Literary Translation™, but will probably wait until tonight or tomorrow to despeckle it before sending the thing off.
Cheers...
I opened WinDirStat, which is a freeware utility that shows what's taking up how much room on your drives, and pointed it at my C: drive. It took a few minutes to scan the drive, but when the scan was complete, the program reported that I only had about 60 GB of files on the disk, which had to be wrong because there's 160 GB of space in the C: partition.
Well, it turns out that despite having system restore protection turned off (I like to live dangerously), there were about 100 GB of restore-point files saved on the drive. After backing up a drive image—in case my plan went awry—I went in, deleted them all, and now all that space is free again.
In other news, I'm not operating at 100% strength right now, probably the result of driving myself so hard over this past weekend. After delivering three packages this morning, my project manager called to tell me to take it easy, which I am attempting to do (at least relatively speaking). I have finished the last 650 words or so of The Literary Translation™, but will probably wait until tonight or tomorrow to despeckle it before sending the thing off.
Cheers...
