Free up space SSD

[Arcana]

Hello guys, im noob at PC i want to free up some space on my ssd, are these folders are important? can i delete them or no? so i can free up 6gb.

~thank you guys

[ChrisCross]

6 minutes ago, Arcana said:

Hello guys, im noob at PC i want to free up some space on my ssd, are these folders are important? can i delete them or no? so i can free up 6gb.

~thank you guys

i would deinstall the amd driver. delete the entire amd folder and then download and install it new. 

[Arcana]

4 minutes ago, ChrisCross said:

i would deinstall the amd driver. delete the entire amd folder and then download and install it new. 

thanks.

[TheRandomness]

Considering the fact that some of those folders are over a year old and they're rather old drivers, why not delete them?

[Arcana]

18 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Considering the fact that some of those folders are over a year old and they're rather old drivers, why not delete them?

already deleted them and install fresh driver

[Train27]

18 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Considering the fact that some of those folders are over a year old and they're rather old drivers, why not delete them?

Because some programs tend to use some parts of old versions instead of installing them again.

So if you simply delete them, the program may have problems executing, but if you uninstall and install it again, you'll get the only packages necessary for the program to work.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Symbolic links to the rescue! These are like super shortcuts. The data will reside somewhere else, but programs will resolve the path name the same... if that makes sense. So here's what you do:

 

1. Copy the data you want offloaded from the SSD (make sure to write down their paths)
2. Open up a command prompt as an administrator
3. Go to the directory where those folders were.
4. Type in:

   mklink /J [Name of folder] [Path to where the folder is]

   So if you moved the C:\AMD folder to E:\AMD, you would type in:
    

   mklink /J AMD E:\AMD

    

5. Repeat this as necessary to anything else you want moved, but not deleted.

The explanation is that when you go into C:\AMD, programs will think this is an actual directory in the C:\ drive, when in fact all of the data is in E:\AMD. So this should not muck up programs when they access this folder.

[Arcana]

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Symbolic links to the rescue! These are like super shortcuts. The data will reside somewhere else, but programs will resolve the path name the same... if that makes sense. So here's what you do:

 

1. Copy the data you want offloaded from the SSD (make sure to write down their paths)
2. Open up a command prompt as an administrator
3. Go to the directory where those folders were.
4. Type in:

   
   mklink /J [Name of folder] [Path to where the folder is]

   So if you moved the C:\AMD folder to E:\AMD, you would type in:
    

   
   mklink /J AMD E:\AMD

    

5. Repeat this as necessary to anything else you want moved, but not deleted.

The explanation is that when you go into C:\AMD, programs will think this is an actual directory in the C:\ drive, when in fact all of the data is in E:\AMD. So this should not muck up programs when they access this folder.

i already deleted them and i did fresh install is it okay?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Oh. Well, I don't know your software setup. But if I need to offload things from my SSD to my HDD and I can't be half-arsed to do any uninstalling/reinstalling/reconfiguring, I just use symlinks.

[Nostalgia_Realm]

How did nobody yet say that NONE of these files are needed? The AMD folder in the root only has temporary files. You should delete it after the driver is installed. Same goes for  Intel, nvidia, and dell folders in the root.

[Nostalgia_Realm]

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

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But you don't need the folder for anything so a symlink is not neccesary.

[Arcana]

ok guys thanks !