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About SpaceMaker
Freeing specific amounts of disk space on a drive
If you need a specific amount of disk space on one of your drives, click
SpaceMaker in the QuickClean screen and tell the SpaceMaker wizard how
much space you want, what kind of files it can delete, and whether you want
it to make compressed backup copies of the files. Then let it free space for you.
By default, files are backed up before they are deleted. The compressed
backup uses less disk space than the deleted files, and gives you a chance to
recover deleted files later. Each time you run the SpaceMaker wizard, you can
turn off backups or specify a different location for the backups.
Choose the SpaceMaker wizard to:
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Quickly create free space on one of your drives.
You can specify the drive and the amount of space you want to free. As
soon as SpaceMaker frees the specified amount of space, it stops deleting
files. If you choose to free as much space as possible, the wizard
continues to delete files until it can find no more files that are old enough
to delete in the categories you have chosen.
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Delete files from more categories than QuickClean.
SpaceMaker lets you delete files that some users might need, such as
bitmap and multimedia files, backup files that have the ".BAK"
extension, temporary files that Windows or Windows applications
generate, screen savers, online help files, and so on.
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Run a Custom rule.
No file is deleted if it has been modified or accessed within the period
specified by the Advanced Settings screen. The default period is 180 days.
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