One additional thought on that, Gary, if you are using Outlook Express, when
you empty the Deleted Item folder it DOES NOT empty. It just hides it.
Every couple of days I delete "Deleted Items.dbx"
which is located at
C:\Documents and Settings\Arthur\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{F493B78F-0182-467D-9C9D-975D0C9B5E27}\Microsoft\Outlook\Deleted
Items.dbx
I deleted it last night and when I look at it now it has everything that I
deleted all day, and is a 1.25 meg file although, since I make a practice of
emptying it and it now shows only one 15K file.
It is a hidden file in a hidden folder, so you need to know how to access
it. I use a special program called Z-Tree - never used the windows file
manager.
I just closed OE, deleted the file, which can only be done when OE is
closed, restarted OE and it created a new file, now 76.5K.
Anybody that has never deleted it will probably find it is huge.
Art Seddon
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Templeman
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] files
If your laptop is that full then you need to attack the things that take up
large amounts of space, not a few piddly Legacy files that are often a few
KB. Here are a few things you can do that will have a much bigger effect.
Run the Disk Cleanup utility and let it compact files. There are a couple of
free programs that help eliminate superfluous stuff, and do so a lot more
safely. One is CleanUp! at http://www.stevengould.org/ and another is
CCleaner at http://www.ccleaner.com/
Then run the disk defragmenter.
If you use Internet Explorer, make sure you reduce the default settings for
temporary Internet files to something reasonable like 60-90 MB (found under
Tools, Internet Options.
Properly uninstall any unnecessary software you have installed.
Review any stored emails and delete ones you no longer need to save and
especially ones that have file attachments you no longer need, then empty
the deleted items folder so they are fully gone
Offload large files such as multimedia, especially video files, to a
portable hard drive.
Computers do not run well with less than 10% (preferably 20%) free space. If
those things don't help enough, it is probably time to think about a new
laptop or replacing the hard drive for a larger capacity (although laptops
are more difficult to clone over).
Gary Templeman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Figgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:14 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] files
My laptop is getting full and I'm trying to eliminate all unneeded files.
There are several under Legacy that I want to know if they can be removed
somehow.
They are Legacy1 through Legacy 11.dbm
Legacy 6.chm and .ing
Legacy5 and 6.lic
several trn files
Under Pub Center Examples there are several foreign languages.
Can these be safe fully removed? How? Just delete? Is there anything else
that I don't need or might not need?
Mary Beth FIggins
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