Opera Stable folder takes up 5 GB on my computer - safe to delete?
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itkowitz last edited by
I cleared my history and cache and it is still at 4.7 GB. I checked opera://flags/#enable-simple-cache-backend and it was Default (not sure if that is enabled or disabled) so I disabled it just in case.
The huge file that is taking up all that space is in C:...\File System\000\p\00\ and it is called 00000000. No extension. It's almost 5 GB alone.
Should I just uninstall Opera, delete that who Opera Software folder and reinstall?
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itkowitz last edited by
Hmm. renaming the file and reopening Opera didn't seem to give any Opera errors. I also just noticed the file was last modified 7/14/14. Also, browsing to some new sites in Opera didn't change the file size one way or another.
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Deleted User last edited by
Check out the "File System" folder there. Opera happen to keep recently downloaded files there (why the heck for!?) and it doesn't clean it up with "Clear browser data" button.
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A Former User last edited by
Are there some metadata on the file?
As for overall harddrive memory usage, you could move certain 'archives' (should you have any) to an external drive (use backups in case it crashes).
Myself personally used another partition (that of the preinstalled ones) to lighten C. But if I knew I'd consider a dual boot one day, I'd've made that "disk"'s partition first.
Also, now I do not store huge files on hard - for they remain easily accessible online at any moment. If yourself, for one, still need certain files stored locally, you can consider purchasing an external hard-drive, or maybe a CD drive - to be able to secure your data by duplicating to a different physical disk. Then you can lighten your internal harddrive, and further use it only to store sort or handy files - those that you use frequently. -
itkowitz last edited by
I deleted the file. Seems that everything is working normally. Not sure how it got so large. Thanks everyone for your help.
