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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0004803Valley 1Bug - OtherOct 12, 2011 12:48 pm
Reporterpierre dupon Assigned ToChris_McElligottPark  
Status closedResolutionnot fixable 
Summary0004803: Your auto-updaters take up +700Gb?
DescriptionI was looking through my installed programs and found that the AIwar and AVWW updater programs take up in excess of 700Gb! I thought this unlikely since my laptop's HD is only 300Gb or so, but I was wondering why this happened? Is it likely to cause issues with anti-virus scanning and such?
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keith.lamothe

Oct 12, 2011 9:51 am

administrator   ~0016459

"Add or Remove Programs" isn't the most accurate when it comes to telling you the size of an install.

Chris_McElligottPark

Oct 12, 2011 10:01 am

administrator   ~0016460

Hahaha, wow, that's the most egregiously-wrong one I've ever seen. Those programs are about 2mb. Yeah, Add/Remove Programs is just _terrible_ at doing size estimates, but I've never seen it that off before. Suffice it to say, all that is set by windows and there's not anything we can do about it; and antivirus programs and so on wouldn't be seeing this either, so you should be fine.

jerith

Oct 12, 2011 12:48 pm

reporter   ~0016476

Just yesterday I had to use a Windows VM to get data out of some MS SQL Server backup files and had the zip extraction thing tell me that the 2gb zipfile contained a whopping 17.7pb (yes, petabytes) of data. When I finally got it extracted, it was only 8gb. These days, I only trust the filesystem to tell me. And even then, I'm suspicious.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Oct 12, 2011 9:49 am pierre dupon New Issue
Oct 12, 2011 9:49 am pierre dupon File Added: arcenUpdaterSize.png
Oct 12, 2011 9:51 am keith.lamothe Note Added: 0016459
Oct 12, 2011 10:01 am Chris_McElligottPark Internal Weight => New
Oct 12, 2011 10:01 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0016460
Oct 12, 2011 10:01 am Chris_McElligottPark Status new => closed
Oct 12, 2011 10:01 am Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Oct 12, 2011 10:01 am Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => not fixable
Oct 12, 2011 12:48 pm jerith Note Added: 0016476