Every few months my dad calls me to complain about Apple’s conspiracy to relocate his files to the cloud so I’m willing to believe a focus group at Microsoft told them it was a concern.
It probably went something like this
downloaded that hypr light drifter an dit crashes on starte up. the official word is to uninstall all of your graphics drivers and reinstall them and do the same damn thing fir directx. So how/ I get options to ujpdate my drivers but things are kept nice and tucked away from saverage consumer person.
Am beginning to recall why i switched to doing all my gaming on handheld consoles right about now
Bumping because I ain’t done with the thread yet (did anybody ever figure out an efficient way to save threads for offline use?)
I’ll add it by recommending Windirstat
Amazing program that visualizes your storage use.
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FWIW I think it’s all sorted now, just had to change some cache-related settings I think.
I used to use ACDSee, so it’s nice having something similar again!
This is something I’d always wished to exist, thank you.
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yes windirstat is VITAL for all users, something like that should just be baked into windows ffs
i put it in that ninite link in the beginning of the thread, but yeah, i’ll evangelize about windirstat until my last breath
I think windirstat saved my life last month. Kept getting dropped frames during video capture on my ssd at work, then I noticed like a third of the drive was devoted to Premiere’s temp files. Got rid of those and its been working great so far…
Yeah, I used a different one (Space Sniffer (and previously Space Monger)) 'cause I don’t like that glowy gradient look, but vv handy.
Why? Isn’t HDD space cheap and plentiful?
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the more HDD space you have, the more analytics are required in order to manage that space. i don’t get your logic here at all.
e: you know, i think i get your point. you think because you can get a lot of storage that you shouldn’t need to manage it. defeating the purpose of having all that storage in the first place. if you never get close to using all of it (noting that “using all of it” will vary heavily by drive type, etc. using all of it does not, in this context, necessarily mean filling the drives to the brim with data), never close enough to consider managing it, you have too much. also, cheap is a highly relative term in this scenario, and hard drives fail.
this doesn’t even take into account managing of multiple drives, particularly for backup purposes, which attempting to do efficiently in only win explorer is a recipe for frustration
maybe you don’t download nearly as many things as i do. it’s hard for me to imagine having so much space that i couldn’t easily fill that shit up with audio, video, games. i have hundreds of steam games, casually filled a 2TB entirely with lossless music (and was struggling because there are so many more gigabytes i want)… yeah, no
I get the importance of backups for certain files, but I don’t think windirstat is a backup tool?
It really sounds like you’re taking HDD space management a lot farther than I ever had to, yeah. I mean, I downloaded a couple dozen Wii and PS2 games lately, but even then I am doing fine on an 80GB internal HDD. I just don’t know what one would use a program like windirstat for, because I never felt the need to use a program like windirstat.
In general though the way I see it is, if I don’t have to employ analytics to manage my hard drive space, then I have exactly the right amount.
windirstat is not a backup tool, but it is incredibly useful for dealing with files of great quantity and size. it’s very useful to be able to visualize this data over multiple drives and sort by size. i think we’re thinking on different scales here.
anyway it’s a free program, it’s easy to use, and there are obvious and brilliant applications it handles better than anything else i’ve laid eyes on. it speaks for itself!
Maybe I’m gonna discover those, once I escape the dark ages of computation.
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I had no idea what windirstat was. Very useful for me.
Before you install Windows 10, you must first create the universe.
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every time i look at the thread title i resist the urge to answer POSIX
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i really hate the way adobe’s scratch disk junk is set up and i currently use a ramdisk for it then backup to an external when i need to (lightroom).
i don’t have more ram than storage but i can’t directly use anything over usb for it and argh
someday i’ll build this san,
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RE: threads; using Mhtml format, give that one a go…
WizTree is mush faster than WinDirStat, especially when it comes to lots of small files. It traverses the NTFS metadata directly instead of calling FindNextFile a billion times. You can do the same thing with both, but I appreciate the craft of WinDirStat’s approach.
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Any chance this thread could be moved to General Input?