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

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

I downloaded a program some time back (forgot what it was), but at the time
it also downloaded a Google package of accessories, inlcuding Google
Desktop, Picasa, Adaware, and some others. When the college opens again on
Thursday (they even give us a hangover day after Mardi Gras), I'll delete
that bunch of accessories. Thanks, Jeff!!

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Matsler
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:38 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - my PC's hard drive space - HELP


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?


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