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  • A reminder to clean up your Command Center download folder
2016/06/16 10:39:08
sharke
In case some of you weren't aware, the CC downloads update files to a folder which you can specify in the CC options, but which defaults to your system drive. For those of you with large system drives this may not be a problem, but if like me you have limited space on an SSD (mine is 250GB) then you might find yourself literally running out of drive space if you don't keep on top of it. This happened to me last night, for the first time in my life I found myself getting "drive full" errors and found that I only had about 50MB free on my system drive. Quickly located the biggest culprit to the CC download folder which was bursting with many GB of files, many of them well past their sell by date!
 
I deleted them all to free up space and then decided to move the folder location to my data drive, which at 2TB can spare the room. But there is nothing to stop this folder growing unless you manually delete files. Perhaps the Bakers should implement some kind of download folder size limit specifiable by the user, with the oldest files being deleted once this limit has been reached. Just a thought. 
2016/06/16 12:52:44
patm300e
Where does one change the default folder options?
 
2016/06/16 12:57:00
scook
Paths tab in the Command Center settings. Click the gear in the upper right of the Command Center to get to settings. I recommend using a directory junction instead of changing the path. Otherwise, remember the path is reset when logging out of the Command center.
2016/06/16 13:02:18
bapu
I've been gathering the CCC install files to my F: drive which currently is a 1TB (soon to be 4TB) ever since we could dictate where to put them. 
2016/06/16 13:03:29
vanceen
Thanks for that. I had re-directed my download path in Command Center to another drive, but somehow it got changed back to C:\. I found 6 GB worth of stuff there to delete.
2016/06/16 13:05:17
scook
This is why I use a directory junction
2016/06/16 13:18:01
BobF
Thanks for the heads up sharke
2016/06/16 13:47:30
panup
Oh, this was a good hint! I got 20 GB more free space to my almost full SSD.
THANKS!!!!
2016/06/16 15:05:36
chuckebaby
right on James. thanks for the heads up.
2016/06/16 16:52:53
rejonzin
Can you please post the path of these files, I was not aware of them.
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