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Google Desktop - hard drive space hog

Started by garrido · 7 months ago

Just a quick note to those who use Google Desktop for WIndows: it eats up hard drive space like nothing I’ve seen!  I ran out of disk space on my system partition yesterday while running a large video convertion task, and after some searching I found the culprit - Google Deskt ... Continue reading »

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  • I installed google desktop with all indexing options "on"; currently the dbeam file in user/local settings/application data/google/google desktop is over 4Gb!!! I have one email account (gmail) and cuurently one main user only.

    Google desktop is a diskspace gobbler...
  • Hi Eric, thanks for dropping by (and sorry for the late reply)!

    With one user it's not so bad, now imagine you have 4 or 5 as I did :(

    I am now using windows Vista mostly (as I'm currently working with a lot of Microsoft stuff) and the built-in search in Vista is good enough for me.

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