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brett_jv

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9. Huh ... well, I have tons and tons of stuff installed on my machine ... I have 3 HD's ...

Tue Apr 7, 2015, 07:24 PM

Apr 2015

I changed the default install path (in environment variables) when installing apps to E:\Program Files instead of C:\Program Files so everything new automatically installs on the E: drive, and then like I say I have my ProgramData & Users folder (on the third drive D:\).

Seems like the vast majority of data generated by all my apps as I use them ends up on D: in one of the two folders there, and with these two 'changes' in play I've not had any difficulty keeping my OS disc down around 60-70GB.

Must be a particular quirk of some of the specific apps you use.

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