[Leica] OT - my PC's hard drive space - HELP

[jeffmatsler at amaonline.com (Jeff Matsler)]

Jeff,

I had a problem a year or two ago because of Google software.  A friend of 
mine came over and was talking about Picasa and what a great application it 
was.  Downloaded it to show me.  I didn't use it (got PSCS), but didn't 
delete it.  A few months later, my laptop started telling me that it was out 
of memory - similar issue to what you report.

Come to find out that Picasa was backing itself up and making a copy of 
EVERY picture on the hard drive in each backup file.  Once I found the cache 
of files and deleted them, and turned off the feature on Picasa, things were 
fine.

I have no idea whether that's what happening on your computer, but in 
regards to Google: I have been very hesitant to download their software ever 
since.

Jeff M
Amarillo, Tx

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:24 AM
Subject: [Leica] OT - my PC's hard drive space - HELP


> At work, I have a 120 gb hard drive. Last week, the PC told me that I was
> nearly out of hard drive space (!) and to remove some programs to free up
> space. My Computer reported about 100 mb of free space. I uninstalled a
> bunch of programs that I never use. My reported space was 450mb! I
> uninstalled programs that I do use but could do without. My reported
> space...430mb!
>
> Does Google Desktop eat available space? The only way I can imagine that
> 119.5 gb are still occupied is if Google Desktop is indexing everything 
> and
> using up space for that index. I suppose that Windows can be using it as
> scratch drive space, but now I couldn't have much more than 40gb of 
> programs
> that seem to be using up 119.5 gb of hard drive space.
>
> Is there a utility out there that will tell me what's going on here?