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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re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 11:47 am Posted by Waqas R. (1 messages posted) i'll advise that u better keep them all :). actually u mite c sum errors if u delete anything out of the components listed in the list [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 3:46 pm 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?) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' Monday, February 16, 2004 at 6:40 pm 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. > > > >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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 6:11 pm 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. 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