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Question about 'What to Throw Away'
Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 9:14 pm
Posted by loribee (1 messages posted)

I have a question about What to Throw Away:

In the root (or Windows) directory, the instructions says that the .txt files can be deleted. What are the chances that the .txt files elsewhere in the computer would be deleted as well? Say, a "README.txt" file found in the C drive is also in the "Command" folder? Are there duplicate files? I don't want to delete the files, only to find that they're gone! I have one file that had pertinent info, but it's in one of my folders. Suggestions? I'm a bit confused on which .txt files to delete! ~loribee

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re: Question about 'What to Throw Away'
Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 10:18 pm
Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted)


That's for you to decide. You just need check them out carefully then. If you bring 
them up using Find - Files or folders, just look through them and don't delete the 
ones you want. You should recognize the filename, I assume. 

There's a piece of bad advice in that article. Which is that it's safe to delete 
.LOG files. Those are the ones, you need to be very careful about. Do NOT delete 
Install.log files, as those are needed for programs UNinstall. You may not recognize 
them that easily either. If an install.log file to a program is missing, you'll need 
to REinstall the program, in order to UNinstall it properly.

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