I've never seen one with an .old extension... You sure that wasn't manually created?
Jeff On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hope you are joking. Have you looked at: > > %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Download > %windir%\SoftwareDistribution.old > > Recently? There's a bunch more too. > > -- > Espi > > > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Mayo, Bill <bem...@pittcountync.gov>wrote: > >> I’m glad that Microsoft doesn’t waste any disk space with updates that >> have already been applied.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:34 PM >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: Allowing or not Allowing iTunes on corporate computers???? >> **** >> >> ** ** >> >> Intuit makes Apple and Adobe look like paragons of resource conservation. >> **** >> >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < >> michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote:**** >> >> Regardless of the issues of streaming, let me fill you on on some things >> about Apple products - especially when related to iTunes: They are worse >> than Adobe.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> 1. Their update process can break easily, more often on 64bit. I'm not >> saying it common, but its easy. And its not easy to fix. IME it >> frequently requires a manual wipe of some kind.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> 2. They cache all of their installation files. Just like what Adobe >> Reader and related products do, they save/store install files of every >> single downloaded "upgrade" that they process (firmware as well). As well >> as multiple backups of devices that are attached/synched, and other crap. >> If you are space-strapped, and have finite backup/sync windows - your >> processes can be seriously impacted.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I've seen backups impacted by 10GB of older/cached upgrades of Apple >> products per user. It just keeps growing over time until you manually >> delete it. I've been a bit of a backup whore recently, so this in turn has >> made me a disk-space analyst as well. I am extremely annoyed with Apple, >> Adobe, and Quickbooks especially. Some of it can be easily compensated for >> with scripts. Some of it, not so easily scripted without non-builtin tools. >> >> -- >> Espi**** >> >> **** >> >> >> >> **** >> >> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM, justino garcia <jgarciaitl...@gmail.com> >> wrote:**** >> >> iTunes removal has come up in our office. >> >> What is norm are you allowing iTunes on the network?**** >> >> >> >> -- >> Justin >> IT-TECH**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
