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Dear Gene, You were absolutely 100 percent correct with the result of a "Disk CleanUp" on an external T - Drive
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Dear Gene, You were absolutely 100 percent correct with your thoughts about the result of a "Disk cleanup" on an external T - Drive!
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I acquired exactly 0 extra storage space, even though I had been using this Segate single Terabyte Drive for 7 or 8 years, and I put and took stuff off and on for that many years! I was sure some files would or should have been fragmented, but Nope! Nothing, and I ran the "Disk Cleanup" twice and got the same results! "0"! Thanks Gene. With best regards. God Bless. Alan Plantation, Sunny South Florida
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From: Gene To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Dear Friends, Should I do a "Disk Clean Up" on my 8, 9, year old External T - Drives? In general, except for one possible case, I doubt that doing a cleanup would accomplish anything. the purpose is to remove files that accumulate that don't do anything but waste space. The operating system isn't on the external disks and you aren't running files on them. You should have either no or almost no useless files if you just use it for storage. One thing I don't know about is something like System Restore keeping a record of what is on your drive. I see no point in that, and, if it is monitoring your drive, you might save room, I'm not sure how much, by stopping monitoring. If the old file is left, that keeps information about the drive, you might save room, but I don't know how much, if you remove the file. But others who know more may comment on that. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 11:47 PM To: Tech Talk Groups Subject: [TechTalk] Dear Friends, Should I do a "Disk Clean Up" on my 8, 9, year old External T - Drives? Dear Friends, In organizing the Music files, audio books and DVS Movie files I collected over the past 7, 8, 9 years, I realized I never did a "Disk Cleanup", on these External single Terabyte Seagate Drives I have. Should I do a "Disk Clean Up" on my 8, 9, year old T - Drives? They were almost full, so I copied 100 GB from Each to a 4 - Terabyte External Drive What should I expect to happen, How long would it take, Will it give me a little more room, is a "Disk Clean up like a Defrag, will my T - Drives run faster? is there anything I should be leery of ? Thanking you in advance for your advice and assistance, With best regards. God Bless. Alan Plantation, Sunny South Florida
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Gene
Fragmentation isn't related to disk cleanup.
Are you saying you ran defrag? Defrag won't give you more disk
space. The purpose is to bring parts of files together that may be
scattered over a disk together and thus speed performance. Disk Cleanup
removes unnecessary files.
Thanks for confirming what I thought about running
disk cleanup on a drive that doesn't contain the operating system or
programs.
Gene
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From: Alan
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 7:17 PM
Subject: [TechTalk] Dear Gene, You were absolutely 100 percent
correct with the result of a "Disk CleanUp" on an external T -
Drive the result of a "Disk cleanup" on an external T - Drive! I acquired exactly 0 extra storage space, even though I had been using this Segate single Terabyte Drive for 7 or 8 years, and I put and took stuff off and on for that many years! I was sure some files would or should have been fragmented, but Nope! Nothing, and I ran the "Disk Cleanup" twice and got the same results! "0"! Thanks Gene. With best regards. God Bless. Alan Plantation, Sunny South Florida ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Dear Friends, Should I do a "Disk Clean Up" on my 8, 9, year old External T - Drives? In general, except for one possible case, I doubt that doing a cleanup would accomplish anything. the purpose is to remove files that accumulate that don't do anything but waste space. The operating system isn't on the external disks and you aren't running files on them. You should have either no or almost no useless files if you just use it for storage. One thing I don't know about is something like System Restore keeping a record of what is on your drive. I see no point in that, and, if it is monitoring your drive, you might save room, I'm not sure how much, by stopping monitoring. If the old file is left, that keeps information about the drive, you might save room, but I don't know how much, if you remove the file. But others who know more may comment on that. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 11:47 PM To: Tech Talk Groups Subject: [TechTalk] Dear Friends, Should I do a "Disk Clean Up" on my 8, 9, year old External T - Drives? Dear Friends, In organizing the Music files, audio books and DVS Movie files I collected over the past 7, 8, 9 years, I realized I never did a "Disk Cleanup", on these External single Terabyte Seagate Drives I have. Should I do a "Disk Clean Up" on my 8, 9, year old T - Drives? They were almost full, so I copied 100 GB from Each to a 4 - Terabyte External Drive What should I expect to happen, How long would it take, Will it give me a little more room, is a "Disk Clean up like a Defrag, will my T - Drives run faster? is there anything I should be leery of ? Thanking you in advance for your advice and assistance, With best regards. God Bless. Alan Plantation, Sunny South Florida
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