I\'m using CPDN on my laptop. It has a 60 MB harddisk. When CPDN is running, the free space is slowly going down. This happens only when CPDN is running, not with other programs. When I got down to about 5 GB of free space I decided to stop running CPDN until a cure is found.
The problem is, I have about 15 GB accounted for. That leaves about 40 GB in use on my hard drive, but I cannot find where it is used for. I tried several diagnosing and clean-up tools, but nothing helped up to now.
Can anyone help me?
Ton.

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you can get rid of any directory that isn\'t the name of your current result (really workunit name) -- i.e. if you have a lot of subdirectories under boinc/projects/climateprediction.net you can get rid of them.

the next release (coupled model) will behave better, as I\'ve made an \"executive decision\" to clean up people\'s hard drives. The old/original idea was these files would be nice to have around for visualization later on, if we need to request a file etc, but we do tend to be a disk hog, esp compared with other boinc projects.

so I\'m moving towards a \"kinder & gentler\" workunit! ;-)

If you are losing a lot of disk space rapidly, it could be because you pressed \"G\" while the visualization was running. This records files in the

climateprediction.net/\"experimentname\"/tmp

directory. If this is happening, there will be lots of files in the tmp directory with a .cpdn extension on the filename. \"G\" is a toggle, so if that is what is going on, hit the key again, and then delete all *.cpdn files in that tmp directory.

Problem is solved. Apparently a lot of files are discarded by CPDN. All these are caught by Norton Protection Recycle Bin. The recycle bin was emptied, but in a hidden subdirectory, C:\\Recycler\\Nprotect, I found about 9.600 files, using about 36 GB of disk space. Normal deletetion did not work. I threw out as much as possible, using the DOS-box and the del *.* command. About 1.000 files, using 360 MB could not be deleted, but I can live with that.

Thanks for answering so promptly.

Ton

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I threw out as much as possible, using the DOS-box and the del *.* command. About 1.000 files, using 360 MB could not be deleted, but I can live with that.

Thats\'s one of the reasons why I don\'t use Norton any more... :-/
But as far as I can remember, by right-clicking the Recycle Bin, there should be an option (from Norton) to permanently deleting the files stored by Norton Recycle Bin. Maybe there\'s also an option for that in the Norton GUI.

@ Carl: Won\'t it be possible to save a completed WU anymore for upcoming private analyse (or for grandchilds)?

@ Carl: Won\'t it be possible to save a completed WU anymore for upcoming private analyse (or for grandchilds)?

I agree with this, I am backing up my old WUs and keeping them safe, in case they are needed for future use.

An option to delete would be the best. Maybe auto-delete unless this option is selected, since that\'s probably what the majority want.

I hope it works out this way.

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Thats\'s one of the reasons why I don\'t use Norton any more... :-/
But as far as I can remember, by right-clicking the Recycle Bin, there should be an option (from Norton) to permanently deleting the files stored by Norton Recycle Bin. Maybe there\'s also an option for that in the Norton GUI.

Yes, right-clicking on the recyclebin gives an option \"Delete Norton Protected files\". I have used it, repeatedly. Somehow a lot of files are overlooked by Norton.

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Yes, right-clicking on the recyclebin gives an option \"Delete Norton Protected files\". I have used it, repeatedly. Somehow a lot of files are overlooked by Norton.

Not necessarily. There are options deep in Norton that says you MUST keep files this many days, and using that option only deletes files over that date. It also might be holding certain extensions longer than others. From my days of using Norton, and tweaking it to work better, it really can be a pain.

FYI: The Norton Protect can be shut off.

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FYI: The Norton Protect can be shut off.

It can also be disabled for specific directories. Right click on the icon, select the \"Properties\" option from the pop-up menu, click on the \"Norton Protection\" tab and click the \"Exclusions\" button. Add your BOINC directory to the list and OK. You\'ll need to reboot to apply the change.

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