Help! Something is eating my disk space

[fendel]

I'm running WinME and encountering a bizarre problem: my C drive keeps filling up, no matter what I do. The "out of space" notification messages are getting more and more frequent.

I was down to about 75MB free so I freed up some space with the wizard WinME provides. Soon I was back down to that amount or less, so I actually uninstalled a bunch of programs. I purged and compacted my Forte Agent database (I still have 700MB for my favorite newsgroup, ugh). All in all, I cleared up nearly 1.5GB of space.

A couple of hours later I return to my PC to find two IRC downloads aborted because I ran out of disk space.

There are only a couple of files on C: larger than 50 MB--I couldn't find any giant files other than my Agent database. Does anyone know what could be happening, or how I can troubleshoot it? I'm perplexed.

(The background info: home-built PIII-500, 128MB, 30GB drive, 40GB drive, DSL... running Forte Agent, mIRC, IE 5.5, and GetRight.)

 

[vi edit]

I don't personally have WindowsME, but I have read that it has an "autobackup" feature that backs up data intermittently. I have heard people say that the backup folders can grow to be quite large.

Maybe change your heading to ask something along the lines of "how do I stop WinME from backup up files"

 

[fendel]

Hmm. I'll have to look into that... there's a smallish "_RESTORE" folder, but that hasn't been a problem. For some reason my free space hasn't disappeared over the past day, so who knows...

thanx,
fendel

 

[Ferrari355]

Right click on my computer, go to the performance tab, click file system, then click troubleshooting. Under the troubleshooting tab click disable system restore.