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Ken B
Can these folders be safely deleted / moved after the patch(es) have been
applied and the computer has been running for a while?
applied and the computer has been running for a while?
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George Hester
Safely?- It depends on your defintion of "Safe." If you mean by Safe will removing them cause my system to crash and burn? - No probaby not.
If you mean by Safe will I ever need them at any later time? - probably not.
If you mean by Safe will I achieve any benefit? - No probably not.
So can I remove them? Yes if you want but why? What do you hope to achieve by doing so? If you check you will find you will get back maybe 25MB at most. In that case it is safer getting a bigger hard drive.
One thing they are good for is to see a place where there is a listing of your updates. It is not the only place where this info can be obtained. It turned out that SP3 was supposed to remove those folders that were included in the Service Pack. For some reason that doesn't work too well but I have seen it work.
If you mean by Safe will I ever need them at any later time? - probably not.
If you mean by Safe will I achieve any benefit? - No probably not.
So can I remove them? Yes if you want but why? What do you hope to achieve by doing so? If you check you will find you will get back maybe 25MB at most. In that case it is safer getting a bigger hard drive.
One thing they are good for is to see a place where there is a listing of your updates. It is not the only place where this info can be obtained. It turned out that SP3 was supposed to remove those folders that were included in the Service Pack. For some reason that doesn't work too well but I have seen it work.
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Ken B
I need to 'buy' space on the C drive. The server was 'built' with a 4gb C
partition, then the rest parted out for larger partitions. Some of the
features of the server (image retrieval, intranet site serving) are
crawling/stopping because there's like 5.29kb free on the C drive. Not the
greatest set up, but I wouldn't want to 'damage' the server as I am not
directly responsible for it, but am one of the supporters of it. Just
happen to be babysitting it today, and people are complaining their scanned
documents aren't coming across... and my finding is it is due to a lack of
space.
I'll temporarily move them to another 'drive' until the real sysadmin gets
back.
Tks!
Ken
Safely?- It depends on your defintion of "Safe." If you mean by Safe will
removing them cause my system to crash and burn? - No probaby not.
If you mean by Safe will I ever need them at any later time? - probably not.
If you mean by Safe will I achieve any benefit? - No probably not.
So can I remove them? Yes if you want but why? What do you hope to achieve
by doing so? If you check you will find you will get back maybe 25MB at
most. In that case it is safer getting a bigger hard drive.
One thing they are good for is to see a place where there is a listing of
your updates. It is not the only place where this info can be obtained. It
turned out that SP3 was supposed to remove those folders that were included
in the Service Pack. For some reason that doesn't work too well but I have
seen it work.
partition, then the rest parted out for larger partitions. Some of the
features of the server (image retrieval, intranet site serving) are
crawling/stopping because there's like 5.29kb free on the C drive. Not the
greatest set up, but I wouldn't want to 'damage' the server as I am not
directly responsible for it, but am one of the supporters of it. Just
happen to be babysitting it today, and people are complaining their scanned
documents aren't coming across... and my finding is it is due to a lack of
space.
I'll temporarily move them to another 'drive' until the real sysadmin gets
back.
Tks!
Ken
Safely?- It depends on your defintion of "Safe." If you mean by Safe will
removing them cause my system to crash and burn? - No probaby not.
If you mean by Safe will I ever need them at any later time? - probably not.
If you mean by Safe will I achieve any benefit? - No probably not.
So can I remove them? Yes if you want but why? What do you hope to achieve
by doing so? If you check you will find you will get back maybe 25MB at
most. In that case it is safer getting a bigger hard drive.
One thing they are good for is to see a place where there is a listing of
your updates. It is not the only place where this info can be obtained. It
turned out that SP3 was supposed to remove those folders that were included
in the Service Pack. For some reason that doesn't work too well but I have
seen it work.
G
George Hester
Unbelievable running a server with free space like that. You drop under 1GB free space you are always going to have "crawling" troubles. Under 700 MB free space you will be unable to Service Pack the installation.
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Rick
Ken, a few suggestions:
1. Search for and delete any files on your C: drive with a .DMP
extension. These are (usually huge) memory dump files that are
written when a system crashes, and aren't necessary unless
someone at your company debugs crashes.
2. If the server also acts as a workstation, delete the Temporary
Internet Files in Internet Explorer.
3. Search for and delete any files with a .TMP extension. If the
file dates are old, these are probably stranded temp files which
can be safely deleted.
4. Also check for files (not folders) that begin with a dollar sign.
Same reason as #3.
As for the $NTUnistall folders, if you aren't directly responsible
for the server then don't remove these. Doing so will make it
impossible to uninstall these applied patches, which may be
required at some point in the future.
Rick
1. Search for and delete any files on your C: drive with a .DMP
extension. These are (usually huge) memory dump files that are
written when a system crashes, and aren't necessary unless
someone at your company debugs crashes.
2. If the server also acts as a workstation, delete the Temporary
Internet Files in Internet Explorer.
3. Search for and delete any files with a .TMP extension. If the
file dates are old, these are probably stranded temp files which
can be safely deleted.
4. Also check for files (not folders) that begin with a dollar sign.
Same reason as #3.
As for the $NTUnistall folders, if you aren't directly responsible
for the server then don't remove these. Doing so will make it
impossible to uninstall these applied patches, which may be
required at some point in the future.
Rick