Category: Geeks r Us
I've just started downloading books from NLS's Bard site, and they come up on my PC as zipped archives of files. I can extract and transfer and play the files with no problems, but I've exited out of the original file archives without ever deleting their contents. Now, I'm being warned that I'm running out of disc space, (I have a harddrive that's barely 40 gigs altogether), and I'm wondering where those original zipped up folders are stored so I can erase them. What folder would they be in, do I have to do a disc defrag to get them off of this machine? I've already performed a disc cleanup twice in two days, and that's helped a bit, but I'm sure there's something else I could be doing to specifically get rid of these things.
You should be able to find the zip file folder easily by going through Windows find )windows key and f= and search for "files or folders" and look for one of the file names, it should show you what folder the files are in.
If you extracted the files from the archive Zip generally creates a subfolder in the folder you choose to extract to with all the files from said archive, so you should be able to simply select that folder within Windows Explorer and hit delete or shift-f10 and choose delete.
If you just opened the .zip archive and played the audio file within it I believe it should be sufficient to delete the .zip archive and your files would be cleaned, unless there is a few of the most recent files stored in a temp folder somewhere for listening purposes, but restarting the computer, I think, will get rid of those, as they should only be active for the session they are used in, just like temporary internet files or attachments you choose to read from within your email without saving it.
Well yes, but some clients save the files as well as the opened one, so look as suggested in the same place your open file is stored. You'll see the file extenchen, so delete the zip file. Your zip file client such as Winrar or Winzip has a setting that can be set to store or delete, so go look for that by opening the program and trying tools look for settings. I know I haven't done a good explaining job, but hope that helps as well as the post above mine.
If you clicked open on the file download dialogs as apposed to save, the zipswill be stored in your temp folder which disk cleanup should have emptied.
As far as cleaning apps go, you could also try ccleaner or cleanup (different from disk clean up).
I just go into the "my documents" folder and delete them from there. All the books I've downloaded from NLS start with DB, so I just hit the letter D and it takes me to the beginning of all those folders or files, and I delete them all.