re: Question about 'What to Throw Away'
Monday, February 16, 2004 at 6:40 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by anonymous coward
(1 messages posted)
i am ready to uninstall this program. the qcinit folder is taking up over 13 GB on
my hard drive. (i wish i only had 3 GBs to clean up!)
i am so not happy about it. patch or not. i'm sticking with making backups of my
c:/ drive. way easier.
On Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 3:46 pm, bluegrover wrote:
>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.
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>
>Here are the steps I followed.
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>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.
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>
>Q. What are the QCINIT\CONxxxxx directories?
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>
>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.
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>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.
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>2. Here is the configsafe support update page: http://www.imaginelan.com/support/updates.html
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