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MSN consumes excessive harddrive space

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by bennie3327

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Do MSN Folders really NEED to have 13.6 GB for one account and 10.7 GB for another account on a single computer? These older computers only have 40 GB in them.

The MSN folder in the Program Files directory appears to hold 13.6 Gb of hard drive space for and 10.7 GB for the other. Yet, I can not see any files over 112 MB. They sum total does not even approach 24.3 GB.

Losing hard drive space like crazy.

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by nicknielsen

I'm assuming you are talking about MSN Live? Are visited web pages archived on the local PC? Have you tried deleting the temporary internet files in IE (Tools | Internet Options | General)?

I'm not allowing my family to use MSN Live, so the only drive space problem I'm having at home is the traditional problem with MS' traditional hidden temporary internet files

by bennie3327

Yes, the visited web pages are now archived for only a 14 day period. I had already deleted the temporary internet files with my cleaner program. It appears that MSN is just allocating huge amounts of hard drive for no apparent reason. I just can not find the reason why it would allocate this much memory.

by dr dij

huge amounts of cache would speed things up quite a bit.

why resend a bunch of heavily used graphics, etc if you can store it locally?

by nicknielsen

IE will allow you to set the maximum amount of cache. Is there a setting in MSN Live that will allow you to limit the amount of space consumed? If not, I would recommend removal.

Or, of course, a larger hard drive. ;)

by bennie3327

This is one of the computers set up by someone else. It only has 40 GB drive. 37.6 GB is used at present. The MSN is consuming at least 24.3 GB. It has grown to where the computer does not have enough room to maneuver. I would just like to figure out why it has allocated this much space for itself. There is really nothing in the files when examined.

by bennie3327

Couldn't find a limitation setting but your removal idea lead to success. After removing the various MSN components with "Add/Remove Programs", the bloated hard drive was still full. It turned out that MSN had a corrupted index and was duplicating each email 'dozens of times'. It was creating and storing multiple file extensions for each email all within itself. This situation occurred with MSN version 9.5. Glad that is over and computer is once again performing.
Thanks

by nicknielsen

Although, to be honest, I was just spouting stuff. As I said before, I don't let my family do MSN. Or even Yahoo!

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