Low Disk space on C drive

[carolyn]

OK I know this a really old post, but had some family issues over the last
several months and could not get back on this. Gerry, I just got around to
searching for the *.log files and yes it is enormous. Can i delete these,
when I try to delete from the search location, it won't let me. Also, How
can I keep these files from logging and are there some I may want to log?
Thanks and sorry for the delay.

 

[DL]

Depends what is creating the log files, you need to know that in order to
stop them
Boot into safe mode, see if they can be deleted then.
Or, ccleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/
Dont use registry clean up section

 

[Gerry]

Carolyn

Before I offer advice will you please provide details of the log files
you have identified i.e. file name and size.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[carolyn]

I can do that, but there are 444 of them and I can't figure out how to copy
them from the search file- It won't let me copy for some reason--

 

[Gerry]

Carolyn

I have found a way to copy a list of search results. At least the file
names. It is a bit tortuous.

Use Edit, Select All in the search result window. Right click on the
selection and select Send to, Mail Recipient. This puts it into your
email program (for me Outlook Express). The text can then be copied
using Edit, Select All, Copy and Pasted where you want. Can you add the
file sizes for any very large log files.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[carolyn]

Tortuous it is, but didn't work, when I hit mail recipient it didn't do
anything, user error I'm sure. So, I am just going to give you the largest
files on there and see what you think:

Logs.log 8551 kb
edb002bo.log 5120 kb
edb.log 5120 kb
edb.tmp.log 5120 kb
res1.log 5120 kb
res2.log 5120 kb
MSDTC.LOG 4096 kb
GTonecareupgrade.log 1906 kb

Again there are 440+ more, I will play around a little and see if I can
figure out the copy thing. Thanks for your help and your assistance.

 

[Gerry]

Carolyn

Logs.log -Not sure what this is, Right click on the file, select
Properties and see if there is a clue what it relates to?

Edb files relate to Exchange Server. This is not something I have
knowledge of. There is a reference to "Capacity Management" in this
link:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/exchangeserver55/maintain/edbwp.mspx?mfr=true

res1.log and res2.log also relate to Microsoft Exchange:
http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Understanding-Exchange-Information-Store.html

MSDTC.LOG =Microsoft Distributed Transaction Co-ordinator is also
Server related The size seems to be what might be expected.

GTonecareupgrade.log -Not sure what this is, Right click on the file,
select Properties and see if there is a clue what it relates to?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[carolyn]

Logs.log is Microsoft Windows One Care Live
GTonecareupgrade is also MS Windows One CAre Live

In an earlier response you indicated my event viewer logs were set to high
to 512 and should be set to 128- and to set all of them to 128 (of which
Windows Live Onve care is on the list) I was going to do this however, when I
attempted it gave me a message that for the settings to take effect I needed
to clear the logs - is that ok to do? Thanks again

 

[Gerry]

Carolyn

The reputation of Windows OneCare in many quarters is not good. When
does your subscription expire?

Can you remind me as to how large your C partitition is and how much
free disk space it currently has?

What anti-virus programme are you using? Are you relying on OneCare?

You can clear the Event logs.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[carolyn]

Well, One Care came with my DSL line and there is no expiration as it is free
and yes I am using it for virus - I have had it for the last 2 or so years
and havn't run into any issues, of course with the side note of this log file
being gigantic - any suggestions I had Symantec before bu hated it-- it
seemed to interfere with some of my most used programs and could never get it
to work right with them.

My C drive is 13G with 3.50 space (I checked the compress drive option the
other day and was able to recover about 2G back I was down to 800MB- Yikes)
My D drive is 130G with 105G left - this is where my documents, my music, my
pictures and temp internet files are going.

I was given instruction by several folks to use a partition program to re
partition my drives, but haven't gotten to that yet - I'm not real confident
in doing it myself - nor do I really know anyone other than the Geek Squad
that might be able to do it-- I just didn't want to spend the money for them
to do it.