C-drive has excessive used space

[santojmezzaroba]

I own a "Small Form Factor System" portable PC. The system has Hoster 3.300 and Power Quest Drive Image 7.0 installed. Early on I began loading discs into Hoster and didn't have much of a problem doing that. I believe I created a problem when I attempted to back-up the data base. I designated the "C:\" drive as the designation and repeated this action a number of times. My C-drive now shows 125GB used. I deleated the discs from the data base using the "Tools-Edit Songs" tabs of Hoster, that didn't seem to help a great deal. Where do I go from here? Currently there are no songs in the data base and I have
a hard drive with 125GB used. Help is appreciated.

[lmcmains]

Go to my computer. Right click on your c drive and select disk cleanup. That should take care of it.

[santojmezzaroba]

C-drive "disc clean-up" didn"t seem to help very much. I opened My Computer. I clicked properties and clicked Disc clean-up.

[George]

Have you opened the folder where your KMA files were stored to make certain they were in fact deleted?

George

[santojmezzaroba]

I can't seem to find the songs in any folder. There were 150 discs loaded and
there is no way that few discs would give Me a C-drive of 114GB. Larry's disc clean up idea did reduce the used space somewhat.

[Beavis]

do a search on your computer for .kma

[santojmezzaroba]

I Have two computers, a portable and a full size both of which have Hoster 3.300 installed.
On the portable, the one with the C-drive problem I did a search for .kma and found 1782 files. When I try to open any of them I get a message saying windows cannot open this file and needs to know what program created it.
That many songs at 4MB each only totals about 7GB of space. My C-drive has 114GB used.
By the way HAPPY NEW YEAR to all.
I'm going to see family tonight so I will check in in the morning.

[George]

It doesn't seem like you'd have any problem deleting the folder(s) they are in, or do a select all/ delete/ within the folder(s), then rebuild the database with nothing in it, and start at square one.

With these numbers I can't help wonder if your compressor/limiter got turned off. Anybody else messing with your computer?

George

[bobcox- with the Lord]

it sounds like drive image has copyed your entire drive a few times on the same drive ??. Bob

[santojmezzaroba]

I agree with You that Drive Image copied My entire drive to the C-drive a number of times. How do I fix it? And why do I get the message about Windows
not being able to open any of the 1782 files I found?

[admin]

Originally Posted by santojmezzaroba

1. I agree with You that Drive Image copied My entire drive to the C-drive a number of times. How do I fix it?

2. And why do I get the message about Windows
not being able to open any of the 1782 files I found?

1. Read in the Drive Image manual how to delete multiple images backed up.

2. Windows shows the message about KMA files because it doesn't recognize that extension. Only Hoster will open these files.

[santojmezzaroba]

According to Power Quest-Advanced View-Backup History, there is no record of Me making a backup. I believe I attempted to backup using (C:\) drive as the designated folder. That is why I had such a large hard drive usage number. I uninstalled Drive Image and after I reinstalled it the hard drive usage dropped to
38GB from 120GB. That number is probably pretty realistic.
The kma. file with 1782 songs is still on the hard drive. I am not having much success opening it to Hoster. Help if You can!
In Power Quest-Advanced View-Drives tab I show two drives. The first is My
Local Drive (C:\). I can not remember creating the second and according to
Power Quest, I never created any drive. I believe it came with the unit. the name is (x:\) but the x is very small and is up high. I imagine it is a back up of some kind.
My lack of knowledge has already caused me a lot of problems so I am trying to use caution.

[Beavis]

if i were you, i would drag and drop those kma's to an external hard drive.

backing up is so important

[bobcox- with the Lord]

open hoster go to tools, build songs data base, make sure path is corect,
where your kma files are stored. should look like this.
C:\ program files\micro technology unlimited\Hoster\songs
then build songs data base, hoster should now play songs. that is if your kma files are in hoster folder. Bob