I woke on Saturday to find all my clients crashed having used up all my 10 gigs allotted to the partition. I got it cleaned up finally, and then doubled the size of the foldit partition to 20 gigs, and started playing again. Now as of 15 minutes ago, I'm being warned of low disk space on foldit partition. Lo and behold when examining the partition I was left with only 30 MEGS of space. I would have crashed again, had I not caught this just in the nick of time.
Doing virus scans now with AVAST, which dearly love, but in the mean time is it possible that the devprev release in the last release might have a bug causing files to increase in number greatly. Last time I saw something like this was with Norton Antivirus 2003 or so, it had a bug that would do the same thing, far worse the most viri and trojans.
Thanks for checking
P.S. If the bug does exist, what am I going to do to get my space back, and don't me I have to wipe and re-install, not a good answer.
P.S. If the bug does exist, what am I going to do to get my space back, and don't me I have to wipe and re-install, not a good answer.
Hi Hanto,
It looks like the autosave feature may not be deleting the temporary files it uses to ensure saves are not corrupted. That would fill up your hard drive after a while.
If you go into the puzzles folder, you should be able to find out where the errant files are. Once you do, if you could take a screenshot or tell us the filenames that would help out in figuring out what happened.
Default subfolders on some of my puzzles ( suspect the ones I'm currently working ) have grown to tremendous sizes, in one case to over 2 gigs. The are full of temp files, where the puzzles that I am not working seem to have ONLY decent file names that seem to be related to the Foldit program.
My puzzle directory for 588 (0000993072) is 1.6 GB and I have 13,543 files with names like autFFF7.tmp (107 Kb each) and 2,003 files with names like quiFFF0.tmp (also 107 Kb each). The four autosave files only add up to 427 Kb. If I close out any clients that are running puzzle 588 can I delete these *.tmp files?
I'm gonna delete them anyway, besides temp files should go in a TEMP folder!!!!
In all honesty tho, Foldit admins should be writing a program to clean these temp files off our drives. We shouldn't have to do it manually.
In all honesty tho, Foldit admins should be writing a program to clean these temp files off our drives. We shouldn't have to do it manually.
I recovered over 9 gigs by just deleting the /default/*.tmp files on one of my clients. I'm gonna restart all my clients and see if they work, as I did not close them during this operation.
