Browsing through directories which I have never looked at before (as one does on a wet Saturday morning), I found in the HardDisc4 -> Utilities I found !ShowScrap. I clicked on it and it opened ADFS::HardDisc4.$.!BOOT.Resources.!Scrap.ScrapDirs.ScrapDir containing a HUGE number of hexadecimally-numbered TEXT files, and directories named after programs, Easiwriter, Messenger, some of these directories were empty, some of them held similar text files.
I counted ADFS::HardDisc4.$.!BOOT.Resources.!Scrap.ScrapDirs.ScrapDir it came to 65MB!
What does this directory do? Should I delete the lot!
In message <5cb173da4f.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael Bell wrote:
> What does [the scrap] directory do?
It's a place where programs can store temporary files.
> Should I delete the lot!
If you want. There's no harm leaving it there, but if you want to save some space (though I doubt 65MB is particularly worrying, is it?) you could delete the files.
Adam <n...@snowstone.org.uk> wrote: > In message <5cb173da4f.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael Bell wrote:
> > What does [the scrap] directory do?
> It's a place where programs can store temporary files.
> > Should I delete the lot!
> If you want. There's no harm leaving it there, but if you want to save > some space (though I doubt 65MB is particularly worrying, is it?) you > could delete the files.
First google for previous discussions of this issue, then read about the (few) apps that store necesary files in !Scrap. Check that you're not deleting any of those first.
<jn.nntp.scrap...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote: > Adam <n...@snowstone.org.uk> wrote: >> In message <5cb173da4f.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael Bell > wrote:
>>> What does [the scrap] directory do?
>> It's a place where programs can store temporary files.
>>> Should I delete the lot!
>> If you want. There's no harm leaving it there, but if you want to save >> some space (though I doubt 65MB is particularly worrying, is it?) you >> could delete the files. > First google for previous discussions of this issue, then read about the > (few) apps that store necesary files in !Scrap. Check that you're not > deleting any of those first.
Would it be OK simply to delete the contents of the directories rather than the directories themselves?
In article <10467ada4f.ad...@snowstone.org.uk>, Adam
<n...@snowstone.org.uk> wrote: > In message <5cb173da4f.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, > Michael Bell wrote: > > What does [the scrap] directory do? > It's a place where programs can store temporary files. > > Should I delete the lot! > If you want. There's no harm leaving it there, but if you want to > save some space (though I doubt 65MB is particularly worrying, is > it?) you could delete the files.
Some applications, including Sibelius, have to have their named directory in Scrap. It would be perfectly safe to delete files, though, and I personally do so now and again.
Joyce.
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On 6 Sep, Michael Bell wrote in message <211d83da4f.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>:
> In message <gemini.k6rqb0000vq7c0...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid> > Jeremy Nicoll - news posts
> > First google for previous discussions of this issue, then read about > > the (few) apps that store necesary files in !Scrap. Check that you're > > not deleting any of those first.
> Would it be OK simply to delete the contents of the directories rather > than the directories themselves?
Maybe; maybe not. It depends on what you delete, and when you do it. For a start, you shouldn't do it when apps are running, as they can legitimately store files in Scrap for the duration of the time they are on the iconbar.
Then make sure you avoid those (few) apps which do store more permanent data in Scrap (arguably incorrectly).
For 65Mb, is it really worth worrying? There's 135Mb of data in Scrap here, and it doesn't seem to cause any problems.
> >> In message <5cb173da4f.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael Bell > > wrote:
> >>> What does [the scrap] directory do?
> >> It's a place where programs can store temporary files.
> >>> Should I delete the lot!
> >> If you want. There's no harm leaving it there, but if you want to save > >> some space (though I doubt 65MB is particularly worrying, is it?) you > >> could delete the files.
> > First google for previous discussions of this issue, then read about the > > (few) apps that store necesary files in !Scrap. Check that you're not > > deleting any of those first.
> Would it be OK simply to delete the contents of the directories rather > than the directories themselves?
IIRC not always so the best solution is with no apps loaded MOVE all the subdirs elsewere and if anything fails move the appropriate subdir back and retry.
Chris Evans
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