re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 6:11 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by becky (1 messages posted) You wrote this answer over a year ago, and it is helpful, but I've already deleted a bunch conxxx files. What do I do now? 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. > > > >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 > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (bluegrover: Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 3:46 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Dick Dunbar: Thu, Dec 13, 2001, 10:08 am) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Waqas R.: Thu, Dec 13, 2001, 11:47 am) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (bluegrover: Sun, Feb 9, 2003, 3:46 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (anonymous coward: Mon, Feb 16, 2004, 6:40 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (becky: Thu, May 20, 2004, 6:11 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum