never trust a dalmation

[viking84]

My xp2100 was running slow, taking a long time to complete work units and do other tasks. I started disk defragmenter, and saw that my files harddrive was full...it is 74 gigs of space but should only have about 20 gig of files in there.

I went to explorer and started going thru files one at a time looking at sizes, saw that my kids' 102 Dalmations game file was 50.4 GB!! (and I thought that my online games took up some space)

inside the game was a notepad file that was 52,558,616KB... a NOTEPAD file!!

when I tried to open it my computer basically laughed at me...any guesses how many pages it would be if I tried to print it out??

ah well...delete and go on

 

[Warhawk]

Whoa, that would be funny to c a notepad file that big LOL

 

[pip]

there was probly a loop in the program that kept righting to the file

 

[DeepScience]

The space was being utilised by an extra dalmation. There should have been only 101 dalmations, not 102.

 

[emericanchaos]

lol 1 dalmation = 50GB

 

[john240sx]

my cousin had a log file that was 134GB. he had just bought a nice fat 200gig drive, installed all his programs and went to bed. it was about 16 hours later that he was able to get to mess with his computer again, he was totally shocked that the drive was already that full. it turns out that Windows XP crashed, while shuting down it got stuck in a loop writing the log file.

........... on the other hand, maybe it didn't get stuck in a loop

 

[DeepScience]

my cousin had a log file that was 134GB. he had just bought a nice fat 200gig drive, installed all his programs and went to bed. it was about 16 hours later that he was able to get to mess with his computer again, he was totally shocked that the drive was already that full. it turns out that Windows XP crashed, while shuting down it got stuck in a loop writing the log file.

........... on the other hand, maybe it didn't get stuck in a loop

Good thing he didn't get an extra dalmation stuck in there at the same time. That would really stuff the system up.

 

[xsquared_uk]

It might not be a notepad file - it might be a game file with an extension that is registered to notepad, something like .inf or whatever. Even so, that's a damn big file!

 

[Ben721]

When you said taking a long time to complete work units, how long were they taking?