How do I increase the amount of available space in a folder on my C drive?

Question

Hi, I'm trying to burn a DVD and it is asking me for a folder for the tempory files to be stored on. Every time I select one it comes up that only 3138Mb are available when it needs to have 4405Mb on it. I've tried cleaning out all the old files but cannot get it to increase. Anyone know how to do it! Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

go to control panel in your start menu and then click on ADD/REMOVE programs. You can remove some programs that you do not use or rarely use.

Also do a disk defrag and disk compression or cleanup. You go MY COMPUTER and then right click on your C drive and do a disk compression or disk cleanup. Disk defrag is located in your Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools

Also clean some files from your IE browser temp folders:
Internet Explorer 6.0+
Go to Tools on your IE browser on top, Then click on Internet Options.
Delete your cache (temporary files), history, and cookies.
Then go to Content and click on AutoComplete Settings and clear all form.
If you dont want your fields to auto fill the forms, then you need to disable it in settings.

If you get Internet Explorer 7.0, you can just go to Tools, Internet Options and you will have the option to delete everything all at once with just one click.
Under Browse History, click Delete, and then Delete all.
It will clear everything.

For Netscape, Firefox, or Mozilla browsers -
Click on EDIT and then PREFERENCE.
First click on Privacy-Security/Cookies and delete your cookies.
Next click on Navigator->History and delete your history. Then go to Smart Browsing in Firefox/Mozilla and clear forms.
Then click on Advanced, then Cache and delete your temp files.

They take up a lot of space in your computer.

Answer 2

1/ Doesn't matter what the folder is, C: has a fixed size and the free space is shared between all places... so look outside of the one folder you're using and see what else can be zapped.

2/ burn a smaller DVD :)

3/ identify files you use very little or can be archived (e.g. photographs, music you haven't listened to in a while). so long as your burner software isn't totally moronic (too common, unfortunately) it should be able to take files that are on the HD and spit them directly onto CD or DVD without having to recreate them in temporary files and you can shed upto 4gb at a time this way.... if you really can't live without them you can copy the stuff back later on.

4/ see if your PC is fast enough to encode the files and burn them "on the fly".... though if you just have a small hard disc, rather than it being very full, and it's a storebought PC, this is unlikely.

5/ see if it has an option for multi-session burning the DVD. your total usable space will drop slightly, but you can then e.g. burn in three 1400mb chunks.

6/ buy a larger hard disc! even a quite affordable 5 (or preferably 10) mini drive that plugs into a USB socket will be plenty large enough, and, particularly if it's USBv2, should be quick enough to cover 1x and probably up to 4x DVD burning. This may seem a bit slow, but it's better than nothing - go cook dinner / to the gym while it burns or something.
Better still have a big, meaty one installed into the computer .... 80gb costs a pittance these days. Like the price of a tank of petrol.

7/ good luck :)

PS Dani claiming to be on a works IT team scares me. What's all that BS about "little bits of data" "floating about in the computer" after you delete things? Get a clue and stop confusing / misleading the newbie, dude! (Unless that's your main intent... hehehe). Defragmenting is totally a different subject to this, unless we later find out that the hard disc transfer performance is far too poor (because of *non-deleted* file fragmentation) to support burning and needs the treament.

Answer 3

First, I am assuming you are backing up a DVD. ;-)

You need to delete some files from your computer. Try these things:

1. In your internet browser delete Temporary Internet Files
2. Next go into Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs (delete the programs that you don't use anymore)

3. Delete all extraneous materials (i.e. other DVDs on hard drive or .mp3s that you don't need)

4. If all else fails get a new or another hard drive

hope this helps

Answer 4

If you go to My Computer, right click on your C drive and then do the Compress files and let the compression program run, it will clean out miscellaneous bits od data that keep being stored in your computer after you delete a file and will free up some space.

Every time you delete files little bits "float" around in your computer. You should "defrag" your computer every couple of months to clean up space or after doing a lot of deletions.

Another thing to do it to go to your internet, pull it up, go to tools on the main menu, I think it's the general tab next. You will see internet history and visited history. Tell the computer to clean those out too. You will clear out a lot of cookies you don't know about. You will have to re-sign into previously set autoentry sites though because it will clear those too, but a lot of space is hidden in internet temp files.

Another thing you can do is do a Search for *.tmp and delete those too.

Just suggestions

Answer 5

you shoudlnt have to select a folder - cant you just designate the C drive as a storage point?

if that doesnt work, im afraid you might have the wrong format of your C:/ drive. FAT32 is wrong, becasue it has a max file size - you may have to reformat into NTFS.

Beware! formatting wipes the drive clean! backup everything first

Answer 6

You can transfer data on 2 CD (700 MB x 2 ) & delete it from your hard drive, you will get free space. After burning DVD, transfer that data again to your computer.

Answer 7

if you have xp go to the folder right click on it then click properties then the customize tab on the top then below that theres a thing that says what kind of folder do you want click on the drop down menu and click videos then apply that should help if you need any more help go join the group cphrs at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cphrs/?yguid=270044613

Answer 8

How big is your harddrive? How many parititions does it have? Do you have any file size restrictions set up? I can walk you through all these issues, but e-mail me first as i'd rather isolate the issue instead of fixing everything and have it all worth nothing.

Answer 9

try and delete stuff that you dont absolutely need of the c and if you have a d with more space then put the temp files there

Answer 10

you could acquire and burn a stay CD with dparted and use it to organize your partitions. shrink area on all different partitions and use this freed area to boost the scale of the Ccontinual. Getting a clean difficultcontinual of say a million TB means is likewise a answer.