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November 26

Disk space discrepancy

Used Space on Disk differs from Total Size of all files?

My Hard Disk Drive on my laptop says Used Space is 22GB, but when I open the Drive and read the size of all files (by Select All and view Properties), the size on Disk shows only 12GB. Why the difference? (I did try to Show all hiden and system files before viewing their total size on disk)

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.161.64.74 (talk) 03:30, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I added a title. StuRat (talk) 04:29, 26 November 2012 (UTC) [reply]

What operating system is this for? Some versions of Windows have Restore points that take up space. RudolfRed (talk) 04:47, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it's Windows. How do I get rid of those restore points to clean up my disk? It's 10GB that I don't know where it's coming from and I feel like it's a waste of space. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.161.64.65 (talk) 06:44, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Disk Cleanup Utility can clear all the System Restore points except the latest one. If you want to delete them all you need to disable system restore. WinDirStat may be useful. Trio The Punch (talk) 02:18, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

An easier way to get a sense of where your disk space is going is to use a disk space visualizing utility, like Sequoia View. On the use of Restore Points, see this FAQ, which includes instructions on how to disable them, if that's really what you want to do after you understand what the space is being used for. --Mr.98 (talk) 13:31, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What a POS article

I'm talking about Persistent object store, of course. Surely somebody has done something using storage tiers, distributed / cloud computing, and messaging systems to push computation deep into the best little data warehouse in Texas by now?

Not to be confused with object-oriented storage system of course.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9173897/Dell_announces_object_based_storage_de_duplication

Hcobb (talk) 18:26, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Missing app on Android phone

I have a Droid 4 running Android 4.0.4 (not rooted). I had an RSS reader app on my phone called "NewsRoom". Shortly before Thanksgiving, the feeds stopped updating. I figured that maybe the authors of the few blogs to which I had subscribed were taking a vacation of something.

As of today, the feeds still hadn't updated, so I checked the site manually, and found the my app had simply failed to indicate that the feeds had updated. I looked in the list of installed apps on my phone and NewsRoom is no longer listed. It is also gone from the Google Play Store.

I found the website for Trileet, the company that made the app, but:

The linked-to Twitter page has not been updated since April.
The Blogger blog was gone ("Sorry, the blog at feedmonger.blogspot.com has been removed.")
The support link goes to some parked page.

I cannot find any recent mention of this app or this problem on any blog or forum, even though they claimed to have over one million downloads. What on earth happened, and why is there (almost) no trace of this app?

98.103.60.35 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:58, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]