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Cleaning up System Volume Information folders - possible?
When I look in the System Volume Information folder, I see on my XP Home system, folders RP85 thru Rp123. Can any (or all but RP123) be deleted to reclaim space? More generally, when system restore points are taken how does one get rid of earler ones that aren't needed anymore?
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Dick_Y
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Dick_Y
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all of above is the current answer to your question Dick_Y congrats FlyingEagle1 for your great and concise answer :)
Just on word of warning though Dick_Y don't figure you can now selectively delete restore points knowing or by keeping track when and how they were created. system Restore has only 2 safe ways of deleting restore points by disable method or by just keeping the most recent one as FlyingEagle1 has pointed out above. all restore points are linked together like a chain the ONLY independent Restore point is the most recent one and thats why you only have an option to delete all but that one.If you delete random ones this will cause havoc and can even corrupt your windows system while trying to restore a system with missing/corrupt restore points and this is one of the reasons some get a message from system restore after boot up "system restore could not restore your computer, no changes have been made to your system"
This can also happen when mayor upgrades,hardware changes,network changes,etc have been implemented BTW
Remember system restore is a helper not a replacement of scheduled data backups
Just on word of warning though Dick_Y don't figure you can now selectively delete restore points knowing or by keeping track when and how they were created. system Restore has only 2 safe ways of deleting restore points by disable method or by just keeping the most recent one as FlyingEagle1 has pointed out above. all restore points are linked together like a chain the ONLY independent Restore point is the most recent one and thats why you only have an option to delete all but that one.If you delete random ones this will cause havoc and can even corrupt your windows system while trying to restore a system with missing/corrupt restore points and this is one of the reasons some get a message from system restore after boot up "system restore could not restore your computer, no changes have been made to your system"
This can also happen when mayor upgrades,hardware changes,network changes,etc have been implemented BTW
Remember system restore is a helper not a replacement of scheduled data backups
LOL seems you gave FlyingEagle1 his diserved credit as I was typing the above comment haha
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Thanks for the follow_up comment/tip, db home.
Dick_Y
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DIck_Y