Quick Tip: Keep Your Disk Cleaned Up When Doing Video Converting on Zune
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Written by ACE   
Thursday, 31 January 2008
prop2I've recently stumbled onto an issue with the Zune Software.  Seems it converts video especially with the Zune 30 (duh) but doesn't clean that cache out.  Please do the following to see how much the Zune Software has clogged your machine (mine was up to 7Gb at one point!)  More after the break....


Simply go to:
Start
Computer (or My Computer on XP)
Right click your C: drive
Choose properties
You should see something like this:

disk cleanup

Now click the 'Disk Cleanup' button and after a couple minutes, you should see this:

clean it up!

That's me just after converting a couple podcasts (it's 0.7Gb already) Now if the number is in the thousands - That's a Gb!  (XP users may show in millions for Gbs). 

 How much do you have?

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kurukato   | 76.111.51.xxx | 2008-01-31 19:18:21
well, not a lot in the Zune, but about 2 gigs in the temp files(Haven't cleaned up in a while.
stkr   | 97.89.18.xxx | 2008-01-31 19:24:58
I stumbled upon this a few weeks back, but wasn't sure if it was meant to be delted or not. I only had a few hundred MB of data, though.
Mark   | 24.176.171.xxx | 2008-01-31 19:28:09
ya I had about 3 gigs
jahazielsoto   | 76.167.57.xxx | 2008-01-31 19:33:06
I personaly use ccleaner (google it) i made it include the temp folder for zune
wetworker     | 99.234.141.xxx | 2008-01-31 22:50:03
Ya, ccleaner rocks. i run it once a week.
churrooo   | 72.201.26.xxx | 2008-01-31 19:34:24
wow i hag 6 gigs
haha
NightFire   | 75.36.19.xxx | 2008-01-31 20:15:13
Haha, I beat you all, 11 GB here...wait, is that something to get excited about?
Bman22   | 76.113.4.xxx | 2008-01-31 20:22:22
Only 11, i had almost 20! I have over 100 videos on my zune though
lpxxfaintxx   | Super Administrator | 2008-01-31 20:50:16
I only have like 2 GB of available space on my PC, and I delete my temporary files pretty often.
trustaugustus - Dude thanks   | 24.196.161.xxx | 2008-01-31 21:00:48
Wow thanks a lot for the heads up
Koty - wow   | 206.109.60.xxx | 2008-01-31 21:51:43
Thanks for this... now I know where all my hard drive space kept disappearing to!
Koty - DEAR LORD!   | 206.109.60.xxx | 2008-01-31 21:54:59
I had over 30 gigs in there!
Jim - Uhh?   | 71.49.81.xxx | 2008-01-31 22:35:30
Well, i dont know exactly how much it is but it looks like alot!

It said 294,901 K...
crochetgrl   | 147.72.103.xxx | 2008-02-01 00:06:38
Wow, yeah those 6.99GB really make a difference on a 80GB hard drive.
Thanks for the tip!
mr.goodnight - WoW     | 69.143.143.xxx | 2008-02-01 00:56:40
Wow Yo, I had 36.6GB...
Cityboi415   | 76.200.142.xxx | 2008-02-01 04:21:11
Good info! thanks
BrianLikesZune   | 216.188.212.xxx | 2008-02-01 09:28:45
I had about 20 gigs.

Thanks for the heads-up though.
ruinedmonk   | 81.108.191.xxx | 2008-02-02 01:17:34
**** i got 6.51gb from zune alone no wonder my p been slow
Eric Tedford - Good God!   | 71.182.106.xxx | 2008-02-01 19:48:39
2.32 GB!!!
Ricky   | 70.58.135.xxx | 2008-02-03 10:15:50
F! i have about 3 gigs of converted files! so now i just delete the file that has to be converted and sync the file on my zune back to my computer, then it never has to convert it again!
nofxboy7789   | 132.170.39.xxx | 2008-02-05 00:15:37
Good thing I checked. 10 gb!
lagforks   | Registered | 2008-02-11 08:48:12
4.23 gigs woot
sonukem   | Registered | 2008-02-19 09:41:29
wow, yeah thanks for this, i had no idea thats where all my hard drive space went. I convert videos all the time, and use my zune for portable videos. I had 12 gigs worth of vid. My computer runs so much better
R-Bro - Error code?     | 76.122.155.xxx | 2008-02-26 06:35:14
Anyone else get error code C00D11CD when they try to Clear History within the Zune software?
Anonymous   | 24.17.150.xxx | 2008-03-01 13:32:53
ok, mine's just bizarre, it doesn't have a disk cleanup button, I went through programs,accessories
, system tools to find it too and I don't have it it's like it was never installed.
any idea where the temp files are kept so I can clean it out manually?
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