CSC directory is 25G

[Matt Andres]

I have an IBM x30 laptop running Windows XP sp2 and all updates. I suddenly
had issues donwloading and installing SP1 for Office 2003. Upon looking I
found that the c:\windows\CSC directory was consuming 25+gig of space. I
have 1 folder I sync offline, which is only about 150MB. First of all, what
is all of the rest of this stuff. Second, how do I get rid of it. I have
read the KB article (884739) on how to use the csccmd 1.1tool, you know, the
one that is not available. My understanding is that, if I could find this
tool somewhere, I would be able to rest the database and maybe clear off
these files. Anyone have any idea how the directory grew to be so large or
what I do to celar it, or how I find the elusive csccmd 1.1 tool??

Thanks

Matt

 

[Robert Moir]

I have an IBM x30 laptop running Windows XP sp2 and all updates. I
suddenly had issues donwloading and installing SP1 for Office 2003.
Upon looking I found that the c:\windows\CSC directory was consuming
25+gig of space. I have 1 folder I sync offline, which is only about
150MB. First of all, what is all of the rest of this stuff. Second,
how do I get rid of it. I have read the KB article (884739) on how to
use the csccmd 1.1tool, you know, the one that is not available. My
understanding is that, if I could find this tool somewhere, I would
be able to rest the database and maybe clear off these files. Anyone
have any idea how the directory grew to be so large or what I do to
celar it, or how I find the elusive csccmd 1.1 tool??

You need to contact PSS to obtain the 1.1 version of the tool, as it says in
the knowledgebase article. Will the 1.0 version not do? Thats easily
available to download with the win 2003 resource kit.

--

 

[Matt Andres]

I have found the 1.1 version, problem is I still don't seem to be able to do
anything to the size of the CSC directory. The content of these directory,
and sub-diercotries, does not make sense to me. There are 8 subfolders,
D1-D8 that all seem to have the same data, duplicated 8 times. Each of these
is around 3.6Gig. Nothing I do effects the size of these folders. I found
reference a couple of places of a way to re-initilaize the database. The
steps appear to be for Win2K only as they have you open Windows Explorer, go
to Tools-Folder Options, and click the Offline Foles Tab. From there you are
supposed to hit Shift-Ctrl and click Delete Files and it is supposed to
prompt you to reset the database. Don't do squat for me. So, is there a
parameter with the 1.1 utility that will reset the database?