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Post by wrongnumber on Mar 1, 2018 13:48:50 GMT -5
Judy: Can any of theses files be removed, as they are taking up over 11GB of storage, and seem to be getting larger each week. I found this by doing a defrag of my HD. See attachment. Left click photo to enlarge.  |
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 1, 2018 14:29:18 GMT -5
Judy: Can any of theses files be removed, as they are taking up over 11GB of storage, and seem to be getting larger each week. I found this by doing a defrag of my HD. See attachment. Left click photo to enlarge. I have removed what I originally posted in this post because I posted 100% incorrect information. Rather than mess up the thread itself I will leave this reply but remove the incorrect information. I apologize to all. |
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Post by bigbarney on Mar 1, 2018 14:30:19 GMT -5
Judy: Can any of theses files be removed, as they are taking up over 11GB of storage, and seem to be getting larger each week. I found this by doing a defrag of my HD. See attachment. Left click photo to enlarge. Judy will answer this better than me but the mere fact that they are named 'System Files' would make it very doubtful that they can be removed. |
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 1, 2018 14:44:26 GMT -5
Judy: Can any of theses files be removed, as they are taking up over 11GB of storage, and seem to be getting larger each week. I found this by doing a defrag of my HD. See attachment. Left click photo to enlarge. Judy will answer this better than me but the mere fact that they are named 'System Files' would make it very doubtful that they can be removed. I don't know about answering better but you are correct bigbarney. There are a number of system files, database files and some program files that are not touched by defragmenter since they are marked not to defragment since this can make them unusable. It is likely that these are the files showing. But as I noted in my reply above, the amount of space being taken is extremely small, just a little over 1 GB so that should not be a problem. |
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Post by bigbarney on Mar 1, 2018 14:46:14 GMT -5
Judy
I could be completely wrong here but is a kilobit not a measurement of download speed whereas a kilobyte is a measure of storage?
Big difference between kbit and kbyte.
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Post by bigbarney on Mar 1, 2018 14:56:14 GMT -5
I think I stand corrected!
Just done a search of the difference between kilobyte and kilobit and am even more confused!
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 1, 2018 15:14:08 GMT -5
Judy I could be completely wrong here but is a kilobit not a measurement of download speed whereas a kilobyte is a measure of storage? Big difference between kbit and kbyte. Not sure what this has to do with wrongnumber's storage space. Question was answered using information shown in his attachment showing the size of the fragmented files as taking up a little over 11,000,000 kilobytes (KB) Both are used for both file size and download speed. A kilobit (kb) is one thousand bits and a kilobyte (KB) is 8 times bigger than a kilobit. 1 kilobit = 125 bytes 1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes Most download speeds now days are measured in MBs, megabytes not kilobits. Unless of course you still use dial-up and then a good connection would be 56kbps |
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 1, 2018 15:32:37 GMT -5
I think I stand corrected! Just done a search of the difference between kilobyte and kilobit and am even more confused! They both are multiples of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage. When they are used for internet speed it tells how many seconds it will take to download whatever it is you are downloading. Depends on how large the download happens to be. |
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Post by wuggy23 on Mar 1, 2018 15:50:03 GMT -5
Wrongnumber - you are right enough in that these 5 files are taking up over 11 Gigabytes of space. However, 4 of the files (those referred to as System Volume Information) are Windows Restore Points which you may want to keep. On the other hand you may wish to go into System Restore and reduce the amount of space available to that part of the system or you can manually delete older system restore points or, indeed, delete ALL System Restore Points and then then create a new one. Again you might wish to reduce the space available for Restore Points to a smaller amount The 5th file is an EDB file which contains all the indexed information etc. to allow Windows to carry out fast searches. This file can be deleted but Windows will then rebuild the index file so you will be more or less back where you started.
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 1, 2018 15:57:17 GMT -5
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am SO glad that wuggy23 also noticed my error and posted the corrections. Thank you!!!!!
I made a GIANT error and I am so sorry. I see now why barney questioned kilobit/kilobyte. My answer on those are the same but I see now that my attachment in reply #1 was so very wrong. I didn't even read kilobit....I requested kilobyte so that is what I saw, even though that wasn't what was there! Proving you read what you "think" you see! So Sorry!!!
So very, very sorry! Wrongnumber is correct size of files is 10.6+ GB.
That shows they are Fragmented files. Are these remaining one defrag is complete?
If so then this answer from reply#3 does apply
"There are a number of system files, database files and some program files that are not touched by defragmenter since they are marked not to defragment since this can make them unusable. It is likely that these are the files showing."
The ONE file that can be deleted if these are showing AFTER defrag is the .EDB file. By default, Windows 10/8 will index your documents for faster searches. As a result, all the data relating to the indexes is stored in this Windows.edb file. This file can increase in size and sometimes can be quite large. 2 GB can be considered a maximum normal for the .EDB file but if it gets too large then it can be removed. Yours is only 5 KB so I wouldn't delete it.
Again, I apologize to ALL for giving the wrong information earlier. I promise I will pay more attention next time.
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Post by wrongnumber on Mar 1, 2018 17:45:57 GMT -5
Wrongnumber - you are right enough in that these 5 files are taking up over 11 Gigabytes of space. However, 4 of the files (those referred to as System Volume Information) are Windows Restore Points which you may want to keep. On the other hand you may wish to go into System Restore and reduce the amount of space available to that part of the system or you can manually delete older system restore points or, indeed, delete ALL System Restore Points and then then create a new one. Again you might wish to reduce the space available for Restore Points to a smaller amount The 5th file is an EDB file which contains all the indexed information etc. to allow Windows to carry out fast searches. This file can be deleted but Windows will then rebuild the index file so you will be more or less back where you started. |
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Post by wrongnumber on Mar 1, 2018 18:04:24 GMT -5
Wuggy23: I agree with you on the amount of data used, and will see about deleting some of the data.
Bigbarney: the first amount of data is 2,417,136 = 2GB,417MB,136KB, therefor adding them all up there are 11,137,300 = 11GB,137MB,300KB = (11 billion, 137 thousand 300 bytes)
Judy: The edb file is 2,228,224kb = 2Gb,228MB,224Kb, and the 5 you nentioned is the fragments.
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