On 29 Dec 2001, at 20:56, Philippe J Beaulieu wrote:

> I recently lost a huge chunk of hard drive space. Careful searching of my
> hard drive has found a lot of hidden files on my system. in c:\restore\temp
> there are a total of 15,582 files ending in the extention of   .cpy.  On
> 12/25 between 9:19pm and 9:39pm there are 2,605 files most 1,249kb each in
> size for a total of 3.03GB space taken for that 20 minute period alone. What
> is a .cpy file and can they be safely deleted?
>
> Philippe Beaulieu [log in to unmask]

  Is there any chance you were installing something at about that
time -- like, for instance, an OS service pack and selected the
option to "save information in order to be able to uninstall this"?

  (I recently was asked to look at a friend's machine to determine
why it was running into various problems.  On a 10GB drive, their
c:\temp folder contained about 6GB, including about four copies of
installation files from aborted/failed attempts to install a large
application....)

Dave Gillett

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