Suddenly out of space

[Jesse8]

Hi,

My c drive has suddenly run out of space. I think it is because I downladed a new Torrent program and tried to transfer my old torrents to it, but I think it has somehow doubled the space all these files are taking up. I can't use system restore because all the save points have been deleted due to running out of space. I have tried to delete any unnecessary files and programs, but this hasn't freed up much space. It definitely wasn't close to being full before today. What should I do?

I have Windows XP, by the way.

Thanks a lot for any help,
Jesse

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Urgh...torrents......

All i know about them is if you download a torrent that is linked to a 50GB file, when you start the torrent in a program like UTorrent or something, the 50GB immediatley fills up, even if the download is not finished.

That could be your problem....

[Dark Blade]

Try system defrag.

In CMD, type:

defrag C: -f
(if you're using C drive; you can replace it if you use some other drive)

This starts system defrag, but you could always run it through the Start Menu.

And you could remove programs through the Start Menu as well.

Or you could just delete Torrent... until you get a bigger hard-drive

[Jesse8]

I think I know what you mean, but just to clarify...

I noticed while deleting files that some files that were part of torrents but that I hadn't ever downloaded were suddenly there and taking up space. But if I tried to play them, they wouldn't work. Is this what you mean?

If this is the case, do you have any suggestions as to what I could do? If it help, I first had BitComet and then tried to transfer everything to Azureus. I have tried to delete everything I can find related to Azureus, but some things won't delete and it hasn't freed up the space again.

[Jesse8]

I tried doing defrag earlier, but I'll do it again now, just in case

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Try deleting them in Safe Mode. Also, go to Control Panel and click on Add and Remove Programs and try removing Azureus. See if that helps.

[Dark Blade]

You seem to have a lot of programs on your computer. Do you really need all of them?

[CBMatt]

Torrents can be a bit risky sometimes.  What protection do you have?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

My friend was downloading a movie and he told me it turned out to be p()rn.
I dont trust torrents now.

[CBMatt]

You really shouldn't trust any type of filesharing software.  Having it will eventually get you infected.  It's like sleeping around without seeing who's been tested for what.

[Jesse8]

I deleted all the Azureus stuff in Safe Mode, and I now have about 1.5 gig free, but I used to have between 20 and 30.

I have Norton internet Security, and I don't download an excessive amount using torrents, I don't do movies or anything too big.

I probably don't need all the programs on my computer, I'll go through and delete some. But it's never been a problem before this happened. Just out of interest, how do you know how much stuff I have on my computer?

[Raptor]

Is this the anti-file sharing committee?

BitTorrent is perfectly safe, I've been using it for ages and never got any dodgy files. It's reliability when it comes to clean files is next to newsgroups and the program doesn't take up space for data it doesn't have yet ....

You do realise that World of Warcraft makes use of the BitTorrent protocol as well?

[Jesse8]

Thanks a lot for everyone's help. I've gone through my computer and ruthlessly deleted stuff and now I have 15 gig free. Still not what it used to be, but I guess it's a lot better than nothing! Thanks again

[Dark Blade]

What are you getting off BitTorrent? You could use LimeWire if it's stuff like music and some moives, and they don't have viruses (unless you download things that are REALLY small e.g. 100kb for a movie is not a movie)

[CBMatt]

Using Limewire is just asking for trouble...