microsoft.net\framework\v114322 shadow folders filling hard drive?

[Alan]

apparently the link I folloed to these boards originally sent me to the media
center area, and Bob was kind enough to make sure I knew I was in the wrong
place... thanks bob... so anyway... repost from media center...

ok... i was working on an XP machine earlier that a user had filled the hard
drive on... it has dot net 2.0 running on it for quick books 2008. Using
spacemonger I found that the biggest chunk of space on her hard drive was in
microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322 where it had created tons of folders that
were named shadow### with ### being 3 digit numbers. This obviously appears
to be part of dot net but can someone tell me what is running that is
creating them and if they can be deleted? Searched google and most the info
I find is about shadow copy... I did find 2 posts on 2 different boards
fromt he same guy asking about the same thing on a 2K server... but he didn't
get any responses.

TIA

Alan

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

ok... i was working on an XP machine earlier that a user had filled the
hard drive on... it has dot net 2.0 running on it for quick books 2008.
Using spacemonger I found that the biggest chunk of space on her hard
drive was in microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322 where it had created tons
of folders that were named shadow### with ### being 3 digit numbers.

Could be 4 digit numbers as well.

This obviously appears to be part of dot net but can someone tell me
what is running that is creating them

These folders are created while installing .NET Framework 1.1 Updates.
"Tons" of folders may or may not be created when these updates fail.

and if they can be deleted?

These folders can be safely deleted if you do not intend to uninstall
those updates. However, you may want to move them to a temporary folder
first in order to see if there are any problems.

 

[Alan]

Thanks d-d

She was indeed having issues with an update and it turns out it was dot net
1.1 SP1.