Computer-lopnik

"MLGCarGuy" (thejdmguy) 06/02/2015 at 18:56 • Filed to: None

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So my computer has officially told me it’s run out of space on the SSD. And it shows. It is lagging to the extremes of lag. So I ask you, Oppo, how can I clear space without deleting my photos and vids and stuff? For reference it’s telling me I have 28 GB of “other” and I don’t know how to clear that.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 18:58

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.Zip stuff? Buy a 50 buck external drive? Copy stuff up to cloud storage storage?

jkm7680 > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 18:59

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Lekker > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:03

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Check your trash, that very often gets forgotten about. Other than that, go to your browsers and clear temp data, go to your HD settings by going to computer, right-click on your hard drive, in the General tab there is a button lower right of the usage pie chart. Should be disk cleanup - it’ll delete some unused temp files, and other OS garbage sometimes left behind. You can also use the Defragmentation of your drive, through the same menu under Tools tab. Lastly you can spend a few minutes consolidating folders and disregarding files you won’t use. the less folders, the less paths to store and load every time you ask it to look for an app, file or folder. You can also spend $30 on a 64gb storage flash drive, which I personally did, and keep a backup of either your OS, or media. I have both :) hope that helps

Nibbles > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:03

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Treesize report plx

Saracen > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:04

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try the disk cleanup utility.

I would recommend using a larger and much cheaper conventional or hybrid hard drive for your videos and such. You get a huge performance advantage when installing software on SSD’s, but much less so for accessing media.

Sweet Trav > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:04

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Windows disk clean up, you’d be surprised how much junk is there. Also choose advanced options and delete shadow copies.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:04

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Don’t download porn, stream it.

Sweet Trav > Sweet Trav 06/02/2015 at 19:05

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Oh and dont forget to disable system restore.

Nibbles > Sweet Trav 06/02/2015 at 19:06

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Just don’t compress old files. That’s how BSODs are made

MLGCarGuy > Nibbles 06/02/2015 at 19:13

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What?

Hi there > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 06/02/2015 at 19:13

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But then when your ISP takes a shit you’re shit out of luck.

MLGCarGuy > jkm7680 06/02/2015 at 19:13

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Smashing my Mac seems like a fantastic choice.

jkm7680 > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:14

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What would Clarkson do?

Nibbles > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:17

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go get Treesize (it's free and tiny), run a report and post it here

JGrabowMSt > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:19

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External hard drive. If you dont have a backup, consider those pictures already gone forever.

Seriously though, you need a backup. Need.

Temp files, recycle bin and log files are the worst offenders.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Hi there 06/02/2015 at 19:31

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then it’s time for imagination!

1111111111111111111111 > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:43

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See if you have a windows.old folder at the root of c:. Or hiberfil.sys. is good to remove if you don’t use hibernation.

MLGCarGuy > 1111111111111111111111 06/02/2015 at 19:44

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That would be helpful but…

I am on the other OS.

1111111111111111111111 > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:44

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Or a new one costs 200 or so for 512GB.

1111111111111111111111 > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:46

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Fair en9ugh. Build a Nas and get video/pictures etc off fast storage and onto slow storagw.

1111111111111111111111 > 1111111111111111111111 06/02/2015 at 19:49

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Pay shipping and I’ll send you a bunch of 1tb drives.

1111111111111111111111 > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 19:58

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Here you go 100$, das, not Nas but cheap.

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=1…

Gated Manual > MLGCarGuy 06/02/2015 at 20:03

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Check the Downloads folder for files you don’t need. Sort by largest size.