C drive is almost filled

[KYLECODY]

55 GB of 110 GB is Alamode related. The images in reports seem to be eating a bunch of the space. The rest is down to Windows related stuff I dont want to delete.

Im down to 1 GB and have to delete some pictures or files every week just to keep it running. I have plenty of room on D and F drives. I cant expand my C drive.

Do I have options other than getting a new computer? Would downloading Alamode on D or F and deleting on C remedy this or not possible?


I realize this isnt a tech forum but some of you are good at this. Thx.

 

[RSW]

Get an external hard drive & copy a bunch of files there. Then, delete files from your C drive. I recently purchased two 14TB drives for less than $500 for the pair.

 

[TerryRohrer]

55 GB of 110 GB is Alamode related. The images in reports seem to be eating a bunch of the space. The rest is down to Windows related stuff I dont want to delete.

Im down to 1 GB and have to delete some pictures or files every week just to keep it running. I have plenty of room on D and F drives. I cant expand my C drive.

Do I have options other than getting a new computer? Would downloading Alamode on D or F and deleting on C remedy this or not possible?


I realize this isnt a tech forum but some of you are good at this. Thx.

I don't have my alamode report files on the C drive for that very reason. Mine are on my D drive. Easier to do at the outset, for sure, but I think you could move your files. Should speed your machine up, too.

 

[Mejappz]

55 GB of 110 GB is Alamode related. The images in reports seem to be eating a bunch of the space. The rest is down to Windows related stuff I dont want to delete.

Im down to 1 GB and have to delete some pictures or files every week just to keep it running. I have plenty of room on D and F drives. I cant expand my C drive.

Do I have options other than getting a new computer? Would downloading Alamode on D or F and deleting on C remedy this or not possible?


I realize this isnt a tech forum but some of you are good at this. Thx.

Get an external drive and move your appraisal reports to that drive. I would get my PC repairman to do this. They can also clone your drive. How many terabytes does your hard drive have?

 

[Hondo]

Buy this from Amazon, get the mounting bracket and the usb to ssd cable. Make a mirror image of you hard drive, install the new ssd and you will have lots of room, easy to do.

Samsung Electronics 870 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E500B/AM)
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$67.99-28%

 

[Mejappz]

Buy this from Amazon, get the mounting bracket and the usb to ssd cable. Make a mirror image of you hard drive, install the new ssd and you will have lots of room, easy to do.

Samsung Electronics 870 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E500B/AM)
Amazon'sChoice
$67.99-28%

I have a couple of these drives, but they are 1TB. Yes, they are excellent.

 

[Vermonter]

Would downloading Alamode on D or F and deleting on C remedy this or not possible?

Do you know if the D and F drives are partitions on the main drive or different physical drives?

If partitions on the main drive you can extend (increase size) C to create more space by reducing the size of D and F and extending C in the control panel under Disk Management.
If different drives you can store appraisal files (which are the files that grow over time) on D or F or whatever, however I believe you need to have alamode itself on the C drive. In the Total Appraisal Desktop > Tools > Configure Settings > General you can select where to access files

 

[TerryRohrer]

Would downloading Alamode on D or F and deleting on C remedy this or not possible?

If you click on Tools and then Configure Settings, you can see Data paths & program connectivity. Those control where the files are located and saved. I would contact alamode and have them walk you through all the settings that might be impacted.

 

[Tom D]

i hope you have your files organized in folders by years. if you do look at that folder, wintotal makes 3 copies of each file, 1 is the file and 2 backups (.bzi & .ztl) if you open a file in any folder wintotal makes 3 files of that number and all the other numbers in that folder. not sure why, but not needed for old files. you can delete those 2 of the same file numbers. you should not have that many files sitting in the total folders. if you ever have to reinstall total, the save/trasnsfer program wants to save every appraisal in total. too many files, it will not do save to transfer. and will take a very long time too reinstall them back. you only need 3 years max in wintotal. the rest you should save to a memory stick, but delete the excess numbers before you transfer. you space is being eaten up by the total duplicate files. since you are asking this question i'm not sure how windows literate you might be. so read up to figure it up.
never only save to the same computer, one day computer will stop and so all your work go to a place of rest. and you are left with buptkis.

 

[KYLECODY]

If you click on Tools and then Configure Settings, you can see Data paths & program connectivity. Those control where the files are located and saved. I would contact alamode and have them walk you through all the settings that might be impacted.

I appreciate all the help/advice on here. Was trying to avoid too many complex tasks and not feeling like a new system or having my awkward computer guy come sit at my desk. I already have everything backed up on an external drive so wasnt as worried about total loss as usual.


Simplest solution was to configure settings in Total, above, and changed the image files to be sent to the D drive instead of C. Kept Public Reports and thumbs on the C. Had to delete the Images file from C after to clear the space, now pulling from D.


Worked like a charm. Went from less than 500 mb left on C to 35 GB...Every image file from Total going forward will stay off the C drive. At least 60 GB left on both D and F for use. A rare victory for me technically. Thanks again to all that replied.