stretch Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Hi everyone,I recently downloaded Utorrent and have been getting my feet wet with this awesome client. Using the options, I have sent all of my completed downloads to my external hard drive (Maxtor) to save space. However, I've noticed that the space on my C: Drive has been steadily diminishing - not as much as my external drive, but still in the 1-3 gigabyte range. Is Utorrent saving data on my C: Drive? Is there an option that I missed? If so, is there anything I can do to clean things out in order to save space on my relatively small C: Drive? Thanks for your assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Are you downloading other torrents that are using disk space before being moved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted August 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Yes, i'm usually downloading 2 files at a time, with 2 or 3 queued. Is there a folder that is holding most of these files in temporary storage? Maybe that is the reason the space on my C: Drive is getting so low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Nope, there is no temporary storage. Does the free space increase after they are moved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted August 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 I think it does. About a week ago I had 9gb left on my C: Drive. After the first batch of files finished downloading my space shot up to 22gb. I've downloaded more files since then, and the space on C: has steadily diminished to around 5gb's now. I'm a little confused actually. My completed downloads equal about 14gbs. My current "Torrent" folder is about 3gb's. BUT - That is all on my external hdd (F: drive). My C: drive has 75gb's of total storage. Some of that is taken up by Windows XP, a few applications and photos here and there, but nothing that should eat up the 30-40 or so (maybe a little less) gigabytes I feel should be free. Perhaps i'm missing something here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/Check what's taking up the space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted August 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Thank you for that link - i'll check out my system and post back here if I see anything amiss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted August 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Wow - that utility is very useful. As it turns out - 58gb of space is being taken up by my Danz Retrospect Restore Folder (the backup utility that comes with my Maxtor externall Hdd). I would have sworn I instructed it to create restore points on my backup f: drive, but it looks like its been making it on C: the whole time. Sheesh, lol. Well, at least now I know. I suppose this is getting a little off topic, but are restore points supposed to take up that much space? I guess I had better delete some of those restore points in order to free some space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Yep restore points can take up that much space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretch Posted August 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Wow. I'm learning something new every day here. Ok, cool. I'll go ahead and see if I can't clean up some and reclaim some space. Thank you for assistance, Ultima. I do appreciate it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.