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Pimpalicious Nerd {C?}
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From: Connecticut, USA
|  Posted: 2004-02-22 10:29
Sometimes I must login to DarkSpace on my nearly five year old computer, which has only a 10 gig HD, and an incredibly small amount of memory.
So, I was wondering which DarkSpace files were necessary to run the GCQL Chat, so I could delete the unnecessary files. Mainly because the available HD space is dangerously low.
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Bobamelius
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From: Ohio
| Posted: 2004-02-22 14:01
Get another hard drive  They're not that expensive.
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Chromix
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Joined: June 29, 2001
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| Posted: 2004-02-22 14:38
If you only want to use GCQL you can delete the Data and Music folder.
Also you no longer need Universe.dll Game.dll Interface.dll and a few other files.
If autoupdate doesn't bring em back it should be ok.
You got a 10 GB HDD, thats a lot, DS only uses ~100 MB.
So you probably get more free space from cleaning your temp folder 
The demo version of this program may also help you to locate files/folders which consume lots of your HDD space.
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/index.shtml
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Keja Dogo {C?} (Master windoo)
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| Posted: 2004-02-22 15:02
Yeah treesize pro rocks. It's been a main tool of mine for freeing up space.
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Keja Dogo {C?} (Master windoo)
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Joined: November 21, 2001
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| Posted: 2004-02-22 15:39
Co-incidentally I used norton disk cleanup today on my C: drive (6 Gigs, i have a 60 Gig one that i use for swap file and non-system related programs). It freed up 1.6 GB of data. That's pretty amazig considering i've not even run norton uninsall yet which can clear out all your bugy programs that wont uninstall/have no uninstall file. It can even archive the stuff you delete. The archive is around 1/2 the size of whats deleted.
I'm using norton utilities, but i can't seem to find it standalone on the web, take a look at Norton system works.
It's a bit pricy but Definetly worth it. Norton utiities alone has around 14 very usefull and very advanced programs, including: Image, Disk doctor, file compare, optization wizard, registry editor, speedstart, system doctor, windoctor, registry tracker, rescue disk, space wizard, speed disk and a system information program that has sections on hardware instaled to running processes and loaded driver libries. All this is simply great for the price, and that's before you even get into the antivirus software etc
I'll take another look to see if there's norton utilities stand alone anywhere on the net if this is a little to much wonga for you.
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Tellaris
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From: Land of Chocolate
| Posted: 2004-02-22 16:27
You could try compressing the drive, but it would make everything run slower, and won't free up a whole lot.
And I LAUGH at you! I'm still useing a tiny 3 gig HD!
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Strategery
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Joined: December 07, 2002
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From: Straight Outta Boston!
| Posted: 2004-02-22 18:03
I think you need a new hard drive as well. my computer came with a 20 gig, which i promptly filled in under a year, with god only knows what. Then i got a new OS on a new hard drive with 40 gigs, and i still have the 20 gig hard drive. I cleaned out all the crap on the 20 gig, opening up about 8.5 gigs of space, and thats where i put all the new stuff. I haven't even touched my new drive yet and it's been 3 months. Always remember, good file management is the best preventive strike against hard drive clutter.
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AdmiralChaos {FA}
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Joined: January 02, 2004
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From: US - Wisconsin - Oshkosh - Mah Basement
| Posted: 2004-02-22 22:23
Ive had 60 gb and not one problem for 2 years
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Bigwolfe
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Joined: October 16, 2003
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From: Bland County
| Posted: 2004-02-22 22:28
i use a 6GB HD...but i have plans on buying a new one, and to the person who has a 20gig and a 40gig, you could set the 20gig to slave and delete it's OS if you got an OS on the 40
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BackSlash
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From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2004-02-23 02:49
wow im using my 120 SCSI drive lol
and clearing out your Temp folder and Temporary internet folder can mean a lot... my temp folder once held an astounding 5 gig.......
clean it!
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Eleda
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From: Sunny ol England
| Posted: 2004-02-23 05:07
/me remembers the day he celibrated having 20 MEGA Bytes of storage space.
All you whipper-snappers with your NTFS don't know how easy you have it.
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tomcat
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| Posted: 2004-02-23 06:32
probby it is heavily defragmented = 30-50% of all files are just used by the filesystem to keep the pieces together. since u have no space to defragment their is no other way to burn a dozend cd and redo the whole system.
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