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Post by bigbarney on Feb 1, 2021 14:43:25 GMT -5
The 'C' drive on my desktop is showing red with only approx 5 GB free space left. My 'D' drive which is an SSD, is virtually empty.
How do I go about deciding what, if anything, I can transfer to my 'D' drive?
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Post by budgall on Feb 1, 2021 15:07:12 GMT -5
Make some new directories on drive D: and move files from download, pictures, documents and any other that are used for storage. Clean out old windows update. Windows disk clean up will clear our junk files. Get a bigger drive C:. Downloas Privazer and run it as it will clean up unneeded junk files.
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Post by MrBill on Feb 1, 2021 15:24:55 GMT -5
I would "copy" before I would "move". Copy leaves them where they are and you can delete them later. Move and something goes wrong and you may loose what you were moving.
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 2, 2021 9:31:12 GMT -5
I would appear to have over 15GB on my desktop. Can I do anything about that?
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Post by MrBill on Feb 2, 2021 10:59:17 GMT -5
I would appear to have over 15GB on my desktop. Can I do anything about that?
Over 15GB of what? |
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Post by jholland1964 on Feb 2, 2021 11:02:46 GMT -5
I would appear to have over 15GB on my desktop. Can I do anything about that?
This all is out of my area but of course I am reading along and now I am confused. Your original post says now in this post you say you have 15GB....is this a different computer or is this what you have after doing the suggested cleanups? |
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 2, 2021 13:10:40 GMT -5
I would appear to have over 15GB on my desktop. Can I do anything about that?
This all is out of my area but of course I am reading along and now I am confused. Your original post says now in this post you say you have 15GB....is this a different computer or is this what you have after doing the suggested cleanups? Sorry Judy, I should have been a bit clearer. When I say my desktop has over 15GB, I am referring to my desktop folder on my computer.
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Post by budgall on Feb 2, 2021 15:02:01 GMT -5
Two different issues, to me the main concern is freeing up free space on Drive C: so proceed with my earlier suggests and like Mr. Bill suggested copy files not move them
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 3, 2021 9:38:36 GMT -5
Two different issues, to me the main concern is freeing up free space on Drive C: so proceed with my earlier suggests and like Mr. Bill suggested copy files not move them What I have been doing is copying files over to 'D' drive and then moving the originals over to an external SSD which I have. Once I am happy everything is ok, I can delete the files from the external drive. Still unsure which files I can and cannot move though.
Windows Update Cleanup on 'C' drive shows over 4GB can be removed. Is it ok to remove these files?
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Post by Phil on Feb 3, 2021 10:30:13 GMT -5
Two different issues, to me the main concern is freeing up free space on Drive C: so proceed with my earlier suggests and like Mr. Bill suggested copy files not move them What I have been doing is copying files over to 'D' drive and then moving the originals over to an external SSD which I have. Once I am happy everything is ok, I can delete the files from the external drive. Still unsure which files I can and cannot move though.
Windows Update Cleanup on 'C' drive shows over 4GB can be removed. Is it ok to remove these files?
I routinely delete those update files as soon as I feel the update is not causing any problems. |
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Post by bigbarney on Feb 3, 2021 10:57:16 GMT -5
What I have been doing is copying files over to 'D' drive and then moving the originals over to an external SSD which I have. Once I am happy everything is ok, I can delete the files from the external drive. Still unsure which files I can and cannot move though.
Windows Update Cleanup on 'C' drive shows over 4GB can be removed. Is it ok to remove these files?
I routinely delete those update files as soon as I feel the update is not causing any problems. Hi Phil, I will remove those files. I have also just found 11GB of files on my 'C' drive which are backup files for my cellphone. They are now gone too. I now have over 32GB free on 'C' drive.
Getting there!
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Post by budgall on Feb 3, 2021 14:26:48 GMT -5
Two different issues, to me the main concern is freeing up free space on Drive C: so proceed with my earlier suggests and like Mr. Bill suggested copy files not move them What I have been doing is copying files over to 'D' drive and then moving the originals over to an external SSD which I have. Once I am happy everything is ok, I can delete the files from the external drive. Still unsure which files I can and cannot move though.
Windows Update Cleanup on 'C' drive shows over 4GB can be removed. Is it ok to remove these files?
Yes it is OK to remove the Windows update files |
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