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So I have a 128Gb SSD. Not big by anyone's standards, still, 128Gb should be enough to get by with for mobile use. Admittedly I have a bunch of stuff on it... fine...
All of a sardine I've been getting 'low disk space' messages while working. The system crawls and there's little I can do. I run CCleaner and clear out the trash - free up 2Gb or so to get by... an hour later 'low disk space' again.
So I go through all my files, pictures, downloads, etc. and clear out the stuff I can do without... short of deleting stuff I actually want. This time I clear out another 4Gb. Some hours (not long) later, I get low disk space AGAIN! By now I'm thinking I have a trojan or something, but instead of it stealing my info, it's dumping everyone elses info on my machine lol. Makes no sense, but I just couldn't fathom the issue.
THEN I go through my personal folder \users\myname and see that my AppData folder is responsible for around 30Gb of 'stuff'. I drill down and finally find that the real culprit is Google Earth - the two cache folders accounted for 25Gb of storage on my drive - that's 20% of the total drive dedicated to GE's cache!
CCleaner has an option for Google Earth, but apparently it doesn't clear the cache folders (I had it checked). I'm now going to scour the web and see if this is an issue with my version of GE (perhaps there is an old cache folder from an upgrade that was left behind or something).
Anyway, for anyone interested, just check your folder here: C:\Users\youraccount\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth
The folder is Unified_cache_leveldb_leveldbX
I'm interested to hear what other GE users folders look like.
All of a sardine I've been getting 'low disk space' messages while working. The system crawls and there's little I can do. I run CCleaner and clear out the trash - free up 2Gb or so to get by... an hour later 'low disk space' again.
So I go through all my files, pictures, downloads, etc. and clear out the stuff I can do without... short of deleting stuff I actually want. This time I clear out another 4Gb. Some hours (not long) later, I get low disk space AGAIN! By now I'm thinking I have a trojan or something, but instead of it stealing my info, it's dumping everyone elses info on my machine lol. Makes no sense, but I just couldn't fathom the issue.
THEN I go through my personal folder \users\myname and see that my AppData folder is responsible for around 30Gb of 'stuff'. I drill down and finally find that the real culprit is Google Earth - the two cache folders accounted for 25Gb of storage on my drive - that's 20% of the total drive dedicated to GE's cache!
CCleaner has an option for Google Earth, but apparently it doesn't clear the cache folders (I had it checked). I'm now going to scour the web and see if this is an issue with my version of GE (perhaps there is an old cache folder from an upgrade that was left behind or something).
Anyway, for anyone interested, just check your folder here: C:\Users\youraccount\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth
The folder is Unified_cache_leveldb_leveldbX
I'm interested to hear what other GE users folders look like.
