Skype hogging hard-drive space

[JerryMungo]

I was clearing out my wife's notebook and freeing up space. There is 22Gb free on a 120Gb hard drive and I don't consider her to be a 'power user' so I was surprised. When going through the user folder, I discovered that Skype (hardly used) was hogging a phenomenal 36Gb in LOG files!

If you want to check your own system, press Windows-R (run) and enter:
%appdata%

Go down to the skype folder and right click it, then go to properties...

I just exited skype and deleted all these files. Check your own system and post here if you found the same thing.

Free space went from 25Gb to around 60+Gb!

 

[Mr.CookieMonster]

Yoh! That's crazy!

I checked mine, I'm using 3.70MB of space.

 

[biometrics]

What's she receiving ... ?

:twisted:

 

[JerryMungo]

What's she receiving ... ?

:twisted:

Log files Bio... log files

Perhaps logging has been turned on for some reason and it's off by default?

My own PC (and I use skype a lot) was using 22Mb... and no log files in that folder. I've just read a bit about turning logs on and off here:
http://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/LogFile

 

[atomcrusher]

I use Skype daily, to several different contacts ... that file is only 3.7MB

 

[UncleMortimer]

Well now if it was your son's laptop, I'd take a closer look at those 'Logs', but your wife's? Weird.

 

[ChocolateBadger]

Sure her pRon collection isn't in a hidden file in there?

 

[UncleMortimer]

Not anymore.
"I just exited skype and deleted all these files."

 

[JerryMungo]

Seriously guys - porn? It's a log file...

Let me explain using a quote from the link up there...

What is a Log file?

A Log file is a file that contains all information about a single session of Skype. It helps us greatly in debugging problems in Skype and enables us to fix problems that you may encounter inside Skype. There are two types of log files a main log file named as debug-YearMonthDate-time.log (for example debug-20070920-1152.log) which is needed for all issue reports that need log files and then debug-YearMonthDate-time.trace.txt (for example debug-20070920-1152.trace.txt) which is needed for audio/video call related problems only. Files from the same Skype session always have the same time-stamp.
Both log files will appear as gibberish to everyone outside of Skype. Log files do not contain any private data about Skype usage, like users instant messages etc.

 

[tsume]

Log files Bio... log files

She's keeping files of gentlemens logs...if you know what I mean

 

[sand_man]

13mb here. Also use it daily.

 

[AthenianOwl]

I was clearing out my wife's notebook and freeing up space. There is 22Gb free on a 120Gb hard drive and I don't consider her to be a 'power user' so I was surprised. When going through the user folder, I discovered that Skype (hardly used) was hogging a phenomenal 36Gb in LOG files!

If you want to check your own system, press Windows-R (run) and enter:
%appdata%

Go down to the skype folder and right click it, then go to properties...

I just exited skype and deleted all these files. Check your own system and post here if you found the same thing.

Free space went from 25Gb to around 60+Gb!

Download and install Recuva (google it) and run it to recover those crucial logfiles. When it's done, open and read them. Why? You know why!

EDIT: Please ignore this post since TIL that skype logfiles are unreadable.

 

[JerryMungo]

Download and install Recuva (google it) and run it to recover those crucial logfiles. When it's done, open and read them. Why? You know why!

EDIT: Please ignore this post since TIL that skype logfiles are unreadable.

No, I ignored it cos its dumb lol

 

[chrisc]

Looked at my HDD and there is only a 3.7kb file there and I use Skype every day

 

[Jagtiger]

I looked at my Skype folder. It takes 7mb.
I found that sent and received files were stored in there. But they were not major component of space taken.