Gonzai 1, Computer 0
Aug. 18th, 2009 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gonzaiIt's about darn time too. I finally managed to fix a problem on my computer, and without help no less.
Since adding a couple new programs last week, my hard drive disappeared. It had 176GB free space to start with and was down to 78GB by yesterday. Yikes. I emptied the recycle bin, downloaded updates, scanned the hard drive for errors, defragged the drive, and had Norton search it a few times. No dice. The offending space-sucker appeared to be in the Users folder, but I couldn't find exactly where. I looked on the net and found out that Vista occasionally goes bonkers with restore points, so I cleared out those. Nope. I saw some reports that one of the programs I added last week has a trojan in it, so I had Norton check just that folder. It found nothing again, but as it scanned I watched the file names skitter by and saw a few that didn't belong.
See, the new program? An audio converter, to turn the .flac, .ape and occasional .ogg files into mp3 files, which it was doing quite well, thanks. But what it was also doing was creating a copy of both the original and the converted file deep down in the Users folder, on another drive entirely! Hence the space suck. I had the pain in the posterior task of going through and deleting all these redundant files, but daggone it, I found the problem by myself and fixed it myself and darn it, I'm proud of myself.
Since adding a couple new programs last week, my hard drive disappeared. It had 176GB free space to start with and was down to 78GB by yesterday. Yikes. I emptied the recycle bin, downloaded updates, scanned the hard drive for errors, defragged the drive, and had Norton search it a few times. No dice. The offending space-sucker appeared to be in the Users folder, but I couldn't find exactly where. I looked on the net and found out that Vista occasionally goes bonkers with restore points, so I cleared out those. Nope. I saw some reports that one of the programs I added last week has a trojan in it, so I had Norton check just that folder. It found nothing again, but as it scanned I watched the file names skitter by and saw a few that didn't belong.
See, the new program? An audio converter, to turn the .flac, .ape and occasional .ogg files into mp3 files, which it was doing quite well, thanks. But what it was also doing was creating a copy of both the original and the converted file deep down in the Users folder, on another drive entirely! Hence the space suck. I had the pain in the posterior task of going through and deleting all these redundant files, but daggone it, I found the problem by myself and fixed it myself and darn it, I'm proud of myself.
