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Hi, Anybody, You remember that I complained that my 380gb hd kept filling up. Today I downloaded winderstat and found that 200 gb of disk space is tied up in the windows Temp directory. Any idea how I have been doing that? Another 60 gb are tied up in a directory named CBS consisting entirely of .log files beginning with CbsPersist. WTF? What does everybody else on this list know about running a windows computer that I don’t know? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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The latter has to do with system updates (Component Based Servicing), see URL below. It might be there is some anomaly in how your machine is taking bug-fixes from Microsoft, e.g. a patch got misapplied somehow and created a cascade of
problems. The former is probably just caching from your web browser and that sort of thing.
From: Friam <[hidden email]> on behalf of Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> Hi, Anybody, You remember that I complained that my 380gb hd kept filling up. Today I downloaded winderstat and found that 200 gb of disk space is tied up in the windows Temp directory. Any idea how I have been doing that? Another 60 gb are tied
up in a directory named CBS consisting entirely of .log files beginning with CbsPersist. WTF?
What does everybody else on this list know about running a windows computer that I don’t know? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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380gb hasn't been all that much a long time. Generally people start in the terabytes even on laptops. CBS the TV station? might be an app for streaming their programs? if so that'd eat up cache and diskpace pretty quickly. 200gb of temporary stuff? I can believe it. Basically windows tries to make a list of what's on your computer. It's pretty believeable that some of that is from that list. Some of that might also be from basically a fake disk as a backup. Keep in mind what ever else you do windows tries to remember what you last did (cache and temp files) and that can eat up space pretty fast For instance I make stuff with photoshop just for fun or to make plugs for cherrity things...that bucket of what I do is about 30gigs, it contains notes from photoshop of color tweaks, fonts, nd photoshops own fake disk and tries to convince my computer it can infact do a bunch at once. tries to often with much hilarity of my real disk perf giving me a one finger salute. And the graphics card getting a little warmer than usual. Hope that's about as clear as mud about the bonkers world that is computing these days. On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:39 AM Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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