re: Question about 'What to Throw Away'
Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 3:46 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bluegrover
(1 messages posted)
Do not delete the conXXXXX folders manually. I had the same problem and found the
fix at configsafe.com. With their fix, I was able to free up over 3GB (yes, GB!)
on my hard drive. Configsafe recognizes a bug in version 2.0.0 through 2.0.8. Each
time a snapshot is taken, the program saves some assciated files. Also, when it takes
a snapshot, it deletes a previous snapshot so that the computer does not fill up
with these snapshots. However, the bug in these versions of the program is that the
associated files are not deleted along with the snapshot. In my case, I had over
31 conxxxxx directories containing files that were greater than 10MB, of these 31,
13 were greater than 100MB and the largest was over 400MB. I was able to delete them
following a fix that is on the configsafe support pages.
Here are the steps I followed.
1. The following explanation of conXXXXX files can be found at: http://www.imaginelan.com/support/faqs/configsafe.html
The last paragraph is of special importance.
Q. What are the QCINIT\CONxxxxx directories?
A. Asset tracking is a database of files matching file patterns in a ConfigSafe profile.
Asset tracking determines if a tracked file is new and if so Asset tracking adds
that file to the database. Only unique iterations of a file will be archived. That
means if file A is changed every day, each time a snapshot is taken that file would
be archived, 8 snapshots would result in 8 copies of file A. If file B never changes
1 copy of the file would be taken and 8 snapshots would result in 8 different snapshots
pointing to the same file. The CONxxxx directories contain the files in the asset
tracking database. There is NOT a 1 to 1 correlation between CONxxxx directories
and snapshots. Manually deleting CONxxxx directories will result in corrupting the
asset tracking database.
If you wish to delete snapshots it must be done from the Manage option within ConfigSafe.
If you wish to delete the asset tracking database, the asset cleanup tool on the
support page will do this for you. Manually deleteing CONxxxx directories will cause
problems in ConfigSafe.
2. Here is the configsafe support update page: http://www.imaginelan.com/support/updates.html
On this page are two patches that will delete unnecessary conXXXXX directories.
2a. If you have version 2.0.0 through 2.0.8, you want to upgrade to version 2.0.9.
The link to the patch is here: http://www.imaginelan.com/support/updates/rev209.html
2b. After you install the patch and update to 2.09, then you can download the assetcleanup.exe
patch. This is here: http://www.imaginelan.com/support/updates.zassetcleanup.exe
3. After installing and running the assetcleanup patch, I cleared over 3 GB on my
hard drive. Good luck!
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 10:08 am, Dick Dunbar wrote:
>I have a question about What
>to Throw Away:
>
>
>I'm trying to cleanup a laptop, and it appears to me that the enormous amount of
>information contained in directories related to install can be removed/archived.
>
>The biggest directories on my machine are these ... why do I need them? Any pointers
>to MS KB articles?
>
>WINNT
> ServicePackFiles
> $NtServicePackUninstall$
> Driver Cache
> $NtUninstallQ______$ (Multiples of these)
>
>CFGSAFE\QCINIT (How many of these do I really need?)
>
>
>
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