Shareaza and little space in Hard Drive

[BlueLantern]

see, I have 2 hard drives, I don't know exactly how, but I manage to have Shareaza installed on the main HD but the downloaded files just go to the secondary HD. While they are incomplete they remain invisible in the main HD.

Anyway, after getting a big file I noticed that the main HD free space din't wen up as it suppose to (should be about 3GB or something) and I worried that somehow is because of the Shareaza being hosted by both HD.

I don't know what to do, any help?

 

[mike_n_herrin]

you could have temporary files on the hard drive where shareaza is installed. you can change the director of where it saves the final files to anywhere I believe. i've not used the program in a long long time and i don't see a tutorial for it that includes changing directories on the web. can you tell us what version you have then maybe i can compare it.

in the mean time you might try downloading the free Ccleaner and running it to free up some space on your hard drives (it deletes junk mostly and temp files and stuff).

you can download it here: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/download/49399be3aab5af19e5d88e8bc6498b71/

you can watch a little youtube video on how to use it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiKmxSNFv0Q

at about 1:00 on the video the guy is checking all the boxes in the "advanced" box i don't usually check those.

 

[BlueLantern]

Din't worked =/ Should I try the advanced box?

 

[mike_n_herrin]

wow. it didn't free up any space at all? you can go ahead and include the advanced tab, but that usually only gets me an additional 30-40 MB of free space. Usually running CCleaner at all will free up between 500-800 MB for me.

 

[Paws]

Are you fucking aware of what you're deleting with CCleaner? Check what files it deletes before you let it do the work, not that it deletes important things.

 

[BlueLantern]

It free up about 70mb and only that. How dangerous is to check everything to be cleaned?

 

[mike_n_herrin]

i'm not sure it's "dangerous" exactly, but you should be aware of what it is actually doing.

if you click the advanced box it will include the following:
1. prefetch data (i would not select this option, as i understand it, it will not improve performance and may degrade performance)
2. menu cache will be reset (ok to check; it means recently used programs/documents will not be sorted by date of last use).
3. windows size/location: (ok to check: it means sizes of your windows will go back to they were when you first installed windows (so the size and location of a window if you have modified them will be put back to default)
4. user assist history: (ok to check; it means recently used programs will be cleared from the list but no programs will be removed).
5. IIS log files: (i'm actually not sure on this one, i've never used it. maybe one of the other guys know?)
6. hotfix uninstaller (if you've not downloaded any windows hotfixes lately and you've not had any problems with the hotfixes you already had this is safe to check. it basically removers the uninstall program that goes with the hotfix).
7. custom user files/folders: (i think this is also ok to check; it means recently used documents will be cleared from the list of recently used, but no documents will actually be deleted.).