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Massive Shadow Copy File
Hello. I have a big problem with the windows Shadow Copy. \System Volume Information\{a20e83b4-d2e1-11de-970d-001e8c98772a}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} The file is 34 GB. With my HD size I simply can't afford it! My Vista Home Premium is working perfect, I don't even need system restore points right now, and I take full responsibility saying that in case anything crashes, I wouldn't even mind starting over fresh and having that 34GB back would be a better solution that to live with it right now. I tried Disk Cleanup, which said it could remove all but the newest shadow copies, and it didn't remove that file. Which means its a new file? I don't know. I'm quite sure it was caused by the defragmentation program that I used "Diskeeper" that maybe somehow made that file a whole lot bigger, I stopped using it and the file doesn't grow anymore. I believe it grew from 20GB to 34GB just after letting Diskeeper run on Auto Defragmentation, and I couldn't risk it making it any bigger. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks. -- EyesDAonly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EyesDAonly's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/155662.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-fil...nt/1272162.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Massive Shadow Copy File
Moving a lot of files around on your computer will increase the size of your
system volume information folder. What many people don't know that by defragging, either manually or continuously as DisKeeper now does, any incremental images created by a program like Acronis True Image will be as large, or larger, than the initial image. An incremental image should only show the changed disk status. But, when you change 74% of the file locations on a disk by defragging the image becomes huge. This is why I always turn off system restore and shadow copy when I load a new operating system. I rely upon True Image to get me out of hot water. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience & Security "EyesDAonly" wrote in message ... Hello. I have a big problem with the windows Shadow Copy. \System Volume Information\{a20e83b4-d2e1-11de-970d-001e8c98772a}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} The file is 34 GB. With my HD size I simply can't afford it! My Vista Home Premium is working perfect, I don't even need system restore points right now, and I take full responsibility saying that in case anything crashes, I wouldn't even mind starting over fresh and having that 34GB back would be a better solution that to live with it right now. I tried Disk Cleanup, which said it could remove all but the newest shadow copies, and it didn't remove that file. Which means its a new file? I don't know. I'm quite sure it was caused by the defragmentation program that I used "Diskeeper" that maybe somehow made that file a whole lot bigger, I stopped using it and the file doesn't grow anymore. I believe it grew from 20GB to 34GB just after letting Diskeeper run on Auto Defragmentation, and I couldn't risk it making it any bigger. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks. -- EyesDAonly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EyesDAonly's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/155662.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-fil...nt/1272162.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Massive Shadow Copy File
Thanks R.C.White! That did the trick :-) 34gb cleared in 2 seconds hehe All I had to do is tell it not to make Shadow Copy for the HD, then it deleted everything. And now I can even let it do it again if I want, and it will make the default small copy. Good to know its possible to clear out the shadow every once in a while if needed. Much appreciated! :-) And thanks Richard, good to know! -- EyesDAonly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EyesDAonly's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/155662.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-fil...nt/1272162.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Massive Shadow Copy File
Richard Urban;1191756 Wrote: Moving a lot of files around on your computer will increase the size of your system volume information folder. What many people don't know that by defragging, either manually or continuously as DisKeeper now does, any incremental images created by a program like Acronis True Image will be as large, or larger, than the initial image. An incremental image should only show the changed disk status. But, when you change 74% of the file locations on a disk by defragging the image becomes huge. This is why I always turn off system restore and shadow copy when I load a new operating system. I rely upon True Image to get me out of hot water. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience & Security "EyesDAonly" EyesDAonly.41t5bb@newsgroup wrote in message news:EyesDAonly.41t5bb@newsgroup Hello. I have a big problem with the windows Shadow Copy. \System Volume Information\{a20e83b4-d2e1-11de-970d-001e8c98772a}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} The file is 34 GB. With my HD size I simply can't afford it! My Vista Home Premium is working perfect, I don't even need system restore points right now, and I take full responsibility saying that in case anything crashes, I wouldn't even mind starting over fresh and having that 34GB back would be a better solution that to live with it right now. I tried Disk Cleanup, which said it could remove all but the newest shadow copies, and it didn't remove that file. Which means its a new file? I don't know. I'm quite sure it was caused by the defragmentation program that I used "Diskeeper" that maybe somehow made that file a whole lot bigger, I stopped using it and the file doesn't grow anymore. I believe it grew from 20GB to 34GB just after letting Diskeeper run on Auto Defragmentation, and I couldn't risk it making it any bigger. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks. -- EyesDAonly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EyesDAonly's Profile: 'EyesDAonly's profile on TechArena Computer Hardware Support Forums of India' (http://forums.techarena.in/members/155662.htm) View this thread: 'Massive Shadow Copy File - Vista File Management' (http://forums.techarena.in/vista-fil...nt/1272162.htm) 'TechArena Community - Technology and Computer Hardware Support Forums of India' (http://forums.techarena.in) This will tell you how to resize the shadowstorage. Note: The minimum size is 300MB. 'How to reduce disk space used by Windows Vista system restore' (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04...ystem-restore/) -- whs |