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Please help! My C Drive is BEYOND FULL what can I delete?

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 14/01/2013 21:01

Just that really.

I keep getting a warning that it's FULL.

I can only have one internet page open at a time and even then I'm still getting the warning.

What can I delete to make space?

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/01/2013 11:41

NetworkGuy it's an HP DV2530ea

To everyone - Thank you!! :)

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/01/2013 11:42

Maggie - not at all :)

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DoodlesNoodles · 15/01/2013 11:53

disclaimer: I don't really know what I am talking about Blush

have you defragged your laptop?. It frees up space.

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/01/2013 11:59

I have just run ccleaner and did it on the Piriform option - I ran it on analyze and it's come up with LOADS but reading through the list I'm a bit nervous to hit 'delete' as it's got things like ...

Applications - office 2007 (will I lose excel etc?????)
Windows explorer - recent documents
Applications - adobe reader 8 (&9)
Internet google toolbar
Multimedia - adobe (& adobe flash player)
Multimedia - quicktime player & cache
Multimedia - real player
Multimedia - windows media player
Ultilites - windows defender
Windows - MS search

Lots of Internet Explorer stuff & lots of System stuff....

A bit absolutely terrified scared to hit 'go'

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/01/2013 12:00

Doodles - yes I have, it clears up space for about 5 mins :(

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TotallyBS · 15/01/2013 12:07

Maggie - 22mb is nothing. Its like throwing away a pair of socks when faced with no draw space :)

There is 1024mb in one gb. You should be looking for programs that are measured in gb.

PC games these days can chew up 8gb of disk space. If your pc is also used by your DCs for games then this could be the cause.

The other culprit is videos, either cinema ones of home videos. If it's videos and deleting is not an option then you will need to get them off your c drive.

Your space problem will be one of the above. Other apps like the Vodaphone ones are too small to be the problem.

If you can't see any big programs then you can search for video files that are greater than 64mb for example. The resultant list can give you an idea of where the disk space is gone.

TotallyBS · 15/01/2013 12:10

Chipping - Go for it :) They are just temp files generated by various programs.

TotallyBS · 15/01/2013 12:13

Defragging speeds up your pc. It doesn't free up disk space. Imagine defragging as being like putting all your DCs in one school or at least in schools near each other. Saves time in that you don't need to go all over, just to pick them up.

DoodlesNoodles · 15/01/2013 12:24

TotallyBS. Ohh that is a good explanation.

(phew, glad I included my disclaimer Blush )

TotallyBS · 15/01/2013 12:24

Maggie - I forgot to answer your other question.

If you bought software then re-installing them later isn't going to be simple. However, PCs come with a lot of free apps pre installed. You won't miss most/any of the other apps especially if the search shows that the app hasn't been used in years.

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/01/2013 12:25

TotallyBS are you sure it wont delete the programmes?? can you tell I'm very worried about this??

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/01/2013 12:26

Oh & just for the curious, I only have a few short bits of camera video not any actual films.

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TotallyBS · 15/01/2013 12:41

My name is a declaration of my thoughts on what others post as opposed to an admission of what comes out of my mouth :)

The info picked up by CCcleaner are temp files. For example, whenever a program crashes it will produce an error report for tech support to review. When you surf it will keep a history of pages you have visited etc etc.

The junk doesn't take up much space but people like to clear these files because it contains info about their surfing. If it scares you then leave it alone. As long as your Recycle Bin is empty then deleting these temp files isn't going to reclaim much space.

TotallyBS · 15/01/2013 12:44

.... Cccleaner will tell you how much space will be reclaimed if you hit the button. If the number is a GB or more then there is your problem.

juneybean · 15/01/2013 12:50

I always run ccleaner a few times as it seems to find new stuff straight after a clean but as long as you haven't ticked any of the greyed options its safe to go ahead, the Microsoft stuff will be temp files

secretscwirrels · 15/01/2013 12:54

Get two external hard drives and put all your film and photos on them both and then delete from lap top.
Or use cloud storage.

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/01/2013 12:56

TotallyBS Grin

It says 716MB to be removed.

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TotallyBS · 15/01/2013 13:07

In the short term reclaiming 716mb will resolve your problem so say a quick prayer and click Run Cleaner :)

PedroPonyLikesCrisps · 15/01/2013 13:17

If you need to save all your photos, have you considered burning them into DVDs? This is a great way to keep them safe (you could even make a couple of copies). A standard DVD will hold about 4GB of data and you can buy them for about 10p to 20p a disc which is super cheap storage space!

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ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/01/2013 13:23

96gb of photos. Hmm.... explains a lot I suppose.

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NetworkGuy · 15/01/2013 18:22

If you have 96 GB of photos, my guess is a lot of those will be duplicates.

When you copy from camera to computer, does it wipe them from the camera, or is there a chance the ones you copied yesterday would be copied again onto your PC next week when you plug your camera in after taking some new ones at an event...

Otherwise, if every one of them is unique, I wonder whether you have any way of finding one that was taken on that holiday and there's your Mum / child /whomever doing /something/ because with that many images it would take quite a while to view them to find something (and not likely to be easy to find in a hurry).

NB no 'solution' in my comment, but if there are duplicates, then it might mean 20-50% are really suitable for deletion. I see this all the time when a client has 'filled up their machine', so sorry, not meaning any criticism or finger pointing, but mentioning in case others are heading the same way...

NetworkGuy · 15/01/2013 18:28

While printing them is an option, there are also add-ons for web hosting where you can put dozens of photos online in a named 'gallery' (complete with thumbnails).

It means not printing them, and (albeit with username/password access if you wish) friends and family could be given access to view when they want, from wherever they are in the world... and if they decide to print (whether it's just 1, or 100, or 1000) then it's their choice on their paper with their ink, and at no printing cost to you :)

(Web hosting might cost say 25-100 quid a year, depending on how much disk space is really needed, and who you host with... oh, and that hosting is also an online 'backup'... and uploading them you'd start to tackle any duplicates and really be choosing which are important to you to keep, and which are less important.)

TotallyBS · 15/01/2013 18:56

96gb is over 10,000 photos (depending on the resolution). That is a lot of photos to print.

Chipping just needs to get past the nervousness. Otherwise she is going to end up backing up the back up to the back up drive :)

My photos are catalogued by year. Each year has been burned to dvds. One copy goes into the cupboard, one copy goes off site to my sister. The complete set sits on an external drive for day to day viewing. Sorted.

BertieBotts · 15/01/2013 19:14

NINETY SIX GB of photos??? Wow.

150GB is a small hard drive these days, but if your computer is 6 years old it might not be worth replacing.

There is a way of checking for duplicates - if you go into your photos folder and set it to arrange by date photo taken, it will put them in date/time order which will be stamped on the photo itself (even if you don't put the date stamp on it's usually digitally encoded) and not related to when it was copied over.