- Disc Space
- Posted by Nowhere on November 16th, 2004
How much disc space should be free to allow proper working of an XP? How
much can My Documents hold?
- Posted by Borsaid on November 16th, 2004
If you are running with less than a gigabyte of free space left on your
primary hard drive, it's time to start seriously considering a larger
storage solution, cleaning your drive of unused files and programs. The
amount your My Documents folder can contain is limitless, to a point
where your hard drive can not hold anymore. Typical home users, unless
storing mass amounts of images, will not take up a considerable amount
of space with typical word documents. Hope that helps.
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- Posted by Nowhere on November 16th, 2004
Thank you...
- Posted by Pennywise on November 16th, 2004
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:04:24 -0000, "Nowhere"
<Nowhere@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
|>How much disc space should be free to allow proper working of an XP?
Enough for your swap file + 100megs; 100 megs, as windows starts
complaining about low disk space at that point. fragmentation would be
awful, but it would work properly.
|>How much can My Documents hold?
A good rule of thumb is 256.
No directory path greater than that (chrs).
No more directories (root or otherwise) than that.
XP flaunts the rule in some areas, but any other OS, keeping to the
rule stops some odd ball problems. I find it best to stick to it.
- Posted by Toolman Tim on November 16th, 2004
"Nowhere" <Nowhere@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
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| How much disc space should be free to allow proper working of an XP? How
| much can My Documents hold?
|
I have a different philosphy about drives. I've found that anytime my hard
drive is more than 90% full, it seems to be slowing down noticably. So, on a
40 gig drive, I try not to let it get down to less than 4 or 5 gig free
space.
Also, while I haven't experienced this, I've read many reports where users
have begun to have serious problems when "My Documents" is overloaded. There
appears to be no "magic number" for this, but I've moved "My Received
Files", "My Music" and "My Pictures" out of "My Documents" since they are
the most populated folders I have (combined total of over 10 gigabytes). I
also try to keep a simple filing system in place - in "My Documents" I have
a folder for "Excel", a folder for "Word", etc., rather than just dumping
everything in one place.
These are mostly my preferences and personal observations, so take it for
what you think it's worth ;o)
