- Mar 22, 2012
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So I use an 80gb SSD for my C: drive, I have tried to limit it only to Windows and other "Program Files" (small Windows stuff)
I keep running into issues of it filling up... despite taking these steps:
- Making Chrome save to D: drive
- Making sure all games, and Steam are on D: drive
- Doing C: Disk Cleanup
- Going through Appdata / temp folders etc and cleaning them as much as I can.
- Having all music, pictures, etc etc on D: drive
- Turning off page file (I think, I did this and some other suggested SSD optimizations when I first go the drive)
I recently realized, as I was trying to keep the drive more breathable... that I had installed Diablo 3 (and ONLY that game) on the C: drive when it came out and I thought I'd play it a lot... I moved that to D: and yet, despite that clearing up a lot of room... despite nothing being designated to save to C:... it still fills to the brim constantly. Particularly lately.
I've had this problem primarily today while trying to download Assassin's Creed 3 installer file (quite large) from Ubisoft (I'd get it on Steam but it came free in only this way through their service with my new vid card)
I've done *.* searches on C: and ranked all files by size... tried to go in and eliminate obvious stuff (I may have missed some...)
I can only assume that it is temporarily shuffling things through C: before they get to D:... even when I tried to make sure the AC3 file was going to D: from the outset, the downloader is still telling me insufficient space... so it's still trying to go to C: in some way, it seems.
One thing that does build up on C: is saved games, unfortunately I don't know of any way to prevent many games from using My Documents for that.
I keep running into issues of it filling up... despite taking these steps:
- Making Chrome save to D: drive
- Making sure all games, and Steam are on D: drive
- Doing C: Disk Cleanup
- Going through Appdata / temp folders etc and cleaning them as much as I can.
- Having all music, pictures, etc etc on D: drive
- Turning off page file (I think, I did this and some other suggested SSD optimizations when I first go the drive)
I recently realized, as I was trying to keep the drive more breathable... that I had installed Diablo 3 (and ONLY that game) on the C: drive when it came out and I thought I'd play it a lot... I moved that to D: and yet, despite that clearing up a lot of room... despite nothing being designated to save to C:... it still fills to the brim constantly. Particularly lately.
I've had this problem primarily today while trying to download Assassin's Creed 3 installer file (quite large) from Ubisoft (I'd get it on Steam but it came free in only this way through their service with my new vid card)
I've done *.* searches on C: and ranked all files by size... tried to go in and eliminate obvious stuff (I may have missed some...)
I can only assume that it is temporarily shuffling things through C: before they get to D:... even when I tried to make sure the AC3 file was going to D: from the outset, the downloader is still telling me insufficient space... so it's still trying to go to C: in some way, it seems.
One thing that does build up on C: is saved games, unfortunately I don't know of any way to prevent many games from using My Documents for that.