Tom's Guide | Tom's Hardware | Tom's Games
 |
 |
 |
Recovered File fragments
BAK files
OLD filesWhat are these? These are what types of items are in my recycle bin. The Recovered file fragments are ON the c: drive no folders.Again what are those 3 files?
When Scandisk saves, Recovered File Fragments they are usually deleted files whose clusters have not been overwritten on the hard drive, and can be deleted.
You can set Scandisk to delete Lost File Fragments instead of recovering them.
-Burbble
0 
So should i delete these files? they are named FILE0000, FILE0001 etc. Delete?
What about the BAK files?
0
Yes, delete the FILE0000, FILE0001 etc.
BAK and OLD are nice 3 letter extensions used to rename an existing file when a new one with the same name is being installed. That's so you can delete the new one if things go awry and rename the old one.
But I've been deleting BAK and OLD (and dozens of other files with various extensions that indicate they are temporary) for a very long time now, and never had a problem.
Do a search for *.BAK and *.OLD and see how much space they occupy.
0
Henry some of these files to search for are *.TMP, *.BAK, *.OLD, *.---, *.$$$, *.CHK
*.DMP, *.$DB, *.DB$, you can also delete *.SYD, *.PRV,
*.GID, *.FTS, *.BAD, *.$* and there are more.
0
Henry, these file are the files that the G-Lock program took out of your file, they are safe to delete, but remember the recycle bin is the file folder that it deletes those files to, you are suppose to keep them for a week or so to see if you need them, per that program if you choose to keep them it will not hurt for a week or so, when you do delete them from your recycle gin they will be gone, its up to you that is why they give you the choice. Sue
0
FILE0000.CHK, FILE0001.CHK, etc. are Lost File Fragments that Scandisk saves to your drive. They are 100% safe to delete.
-Burbble
0
Renaissance Man’s 2˘ Worth:
These are files I delete on a regular basis with two batch files, which I run from icons on my desktop. (These are file extensions; del[ete] *.[extension])
bad = registry files that the system marks as bad
bak = duplicate (backup) files
chk = ScanDisk disk error files
dmp = memory dump files
fts = temporary files recreated by Windows as needed
gid = help files search data
old = copy of older version
prv = log files created by past windows boot-ups
syd = temporary backup files
tmp = temporary files
*.$*= temporary files
*.~*= temporary files
~*.*= temporary files
*.??~=temporary files
mscreate.dir = creates folders during installations
=======================================
These are files that are listed in one registry cleaner as “unnecessary” (which duplicate some of the files already listed):
“These files are mainly backups, temporary and other unuseable files: *.tmp, ~*.*, *.~*, *.?~?, *.aps, *.bak, *.bk?, *.bsc, *.dmp, *.ilk, *.pch, *.rws, *.sbr, backup*.wbk, *.$$$, *.ncb, *.~mp, *.old, *.da0, *.chk." [This registry cleaner] can also search for these files: "*.fts, *.gid, *.mtx, *.nch, *.ftg, *.$db, *.db$. *. NCH are created when you read newsgroups with Microsoft Outlook. *.MTX files are created when a scanner-device is used. *.GID files are created when you execute *.HLP files. Usage of these files is currently quite unknown, but these files are still save to delete. You get mainly temporary free disk space when you delete these, because programs (or scanners) create these again when executed.”
0  |
 |
 |
This post is quite old and has been locked from receiving new replies. Please create a new posting instead.
| Ads by Google |
