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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Help! Wheres My Hard Drive Space Going

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SCI_CO
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 01:18 Edited at: 13th Jun 2004 01:36
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I have checked and did not find any Virus`s
I even pulled the hard drive and check it with
my other computer.

It seems every time I lanch DBPro and biuld a project
I lose 500 MB+.

I fdisked and formated my computer and reinstalled
all the software I`m using.

OS+Software = 1.96 GB out of 40 GB on install
OS+Software List:
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Windows ME
Sound Drivers
Video Drivers
MainBoard Drivers
DirectX 9b
DarkBASIC Pro
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Thats it.

After creating 8 programs witch are 600 MB or less
I`m using 9.96 GB out of 40 GB even after I delete them

Its going fast and now I don`t know if I should use DBPro
in fear of losing my hard drive

Anyone have the same thing going on
or know what`s going on...help

VC compiles OK and when I delete my VC projects I get
my hard drive space back.
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the_winch
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Location: Oxford, UK
Posted: 13th Jun 2004 01:44 Edited at: 13th Jun 2004 01:47
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Everytime a dbpro exe runs it creates a folder in your temp folder called dbpdata. It extracts dlls and attached media into the folder. Sometimes it doesn't delete the folder when the program exits so you can end up with lots and lots of them and they can be several Mb each.

If you have no dbpro exe running it is save to go to your temp dir and just delete all of them.

The location of your temp dir varies between windows versions.
for win9x
c:\windows\temp
for win2k/xp
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER NAME]\Local Settings\Temp

That would only account for a small ammount, I don't know why it is eating up so much disk space.

can i scream
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SCI_CO
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 02:21 Edited at: 13th Jun 2004 02:44
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Hello the_winch,

I delete the stuff in my temp every day, shutdown or restart
its a habit.

O-ya this does not happen with DBPro Demo 1.0
from the book Beginner`s Guide To DarkBASIC Game Programing
or I didn`t notice it
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SCI_CO
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 05:06
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Ok I have just tested my WindowsXP system
and I`m not missing any drive space
so it must be my WindowsME system or my video drivers
trippin with DBPro.

I don`t think its the video drivers
know I`m off to do someting I hate!

Search Microsoft`s web site for updates
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JamesR
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 07:03
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SCI_CO...chuck ME in the trash can. I had it on my comp, and wierd stuff like that always happened. I would go to my computer and icons would be missing. Great. Or a random pic from my files would become my background. WTF? Or a complete program would dissapear from the start menu and desktop. A restart would help it, but it would happen again. My advice is to either buy XP or downgrade to 98. If money is a problem then you can always use E-Bay.
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SCI_CO
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 08:22 Edited at: 13th Jun 2004 08:39
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Hay JamesR,

I have Windows 98SE sittin in a box should that work?
does anyone know
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JamesR
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 08:37
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yeah...pretty much anything is better than ME in my opinion. I'm running XP now, but I always liked 98.
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SandraD
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 10:21
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Yeah, I like 98 too. Have XP sitting beside me, but don't care for it so I went back. As for ME, never tried it, but the horror stories are enough to convince me I don't want to.

S.

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Pazza
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 17:01
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i've been using ME for the last 4 years and have never had any problems with it however, i have heard of people having problems with it.

"Bite my shiny metal ass!" - Bender
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CattleRustler
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 17:16
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if you want a rock solid os (from ms) try 2000 pro - has always been stable and weirdness free for me, luckily.


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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 18:52
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I have 3 machines and I run Win 98 SE on one, Win ME on another, and Win XP 2002 w/SP1 on the other. I have no problems with any of them. The only major problem I have seen when running Win ME is that you should NEVER put more than 512MB of memory in a machine running it. If you do it tries to load the entire v-cache into memory instead of on your HD and you'll have 1.5GB of memory and it will say you have 2MB free with nothing but windows running . You can fix this by limiting system memory to 512MB in windows but what would be the point of having more than 512 MB then. See here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;253912
Also if you have more than 1.5GB of memory your Win ME machine may reboot over and over again see here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q304/9/43.ASP&NoWebContent=1

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SCI_CO
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 21:14 Edited at: 13th Jun 2004 21:29
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One prob I had was with the Game the Matrix
after installing it Windows ME booted up in real time dos
and went in to a loop
repeating this:
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Windows ME Could Not Load 1%
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and looped for ever(BAD COMPUTER! NO! THATS A BAD COMPUTER! SIT!)
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Phaelax
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Posted: 14th Jun 2004 13:27
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Ever heard of the "recycling bin"?

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