Renny 4 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Hi guys, trying to help out a mate who keeps maxing out his C: Drive (60GB SSD) in Windows 7 Turns out his roaming profile is almost 20GB. This PC is not on a domain or even connected to a server nor does he use other PCs with this profile. The "local profile" is only 500mb. My questions are: Can I delete the contents of this folder? Can I limit the size of this folder? How can I determine what is creating this much data? Thanks for your input. Link to post Share on other sites
adsboel 9 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 not sure if I am spoton, but try C:\Users\<user>\appdata\Roaming Link to post Share on other sites
Renny 4 Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 Yep adsboel, that where it is. But it is way too large (Mine is <2GB) Hi guys, trying to help out a mate who keeps maxing out his C: Drive (60GB SSD) in Windows 7 Turns out his roaming profile is almost 20GB. This PC is not on a domain or even connected to a server nor does he use other PCs with this profile. The "local profile" is only 500mb. My questions are: Can I delete the contents of this folder? Can I limit the size of this folder? How can I determine what is creating this much data? Thanks for your input. Link to post Share on other sites
Renny 4 Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Anyone have a clue I can follow up? Link to post Share on other sites
jem101 17 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Renny, what is actually in this folder? The contents should give you a clue as to what application is filling it up, (Outlook is often a prime suspect). By the way, it's not a roaming profile as such - the profile is the whole of the <user> folder within the C:\users directory. Although MS has decided to call some of the folders in the %APPDATA% subfolder 'local' and 'roaming' they don't actually have anything to do with a true local or roaming profile - well actually they do but in a very, very, spurious manner. John Link to post Share on other sites
Drashna Jaelre 159 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Run disk cleanup, it may clear out some of the space. But it's better to figure out what is causing it to fill up. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Guys, help me out here. Doesn't a roaming profile basically keep an offline copy of pretty much everything for use when the computer isn't connected to the server? Link to post Share on other sites
Renny 4 Posted February 13, 2014 Author Share Posted February 13, 2014 Ikon, this machine is not connected to a server. Drashna, we have tried disk clean up to no avail. Thanks for you interest Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 OK, so jem101 is correct, this isn't really a Roaming Profile. Hmmm..... Link to post Share on other sites
Renny 4 Posted February 13, 2014 Author Share Posted February 13, 2014 I will further investigate the contents of the folder and report back. Thanks guys Link to post Share on other sites
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