Insufficient disk space

Possible solutions of insufficient hard drive disk space

Houston, we have a problem

clean the disk space

using the tool to auto clean the space

• CCleaner for Win & macOS : About 3~4 GB free space after auto cleaned. CCleaner 3.12.1572 免安裝中文版 (內建CCEnhancer) - 硬碟清理工具 - 阿榮福利味
• Dr. Cleaner for macOS : (1 ) About 1~2 GB free space after auto cleaned (2) help you to find the big files.
• Delete files using Disk Cleanup - Windows Help / 如何利用Windows內建的磁碟清理清垃圾？ – 香腸炒魷魚

clean the following directories (at Windows)

• %Temp%
• %HOMEPATH%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

uninstall the software or fonts which you may not used

• software
• fonts

restart the chrome browser

1. Backup all tabs by using OneTab
2. Restart the chrome browser

understand the condition

find the directories which costs most space

• TreeSize Free - Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs for Win
• more similar softwares ... ... Google: (folder OR directory) size

move the user folders to another drive

Redirect a folder to a new location - Windows Help for Win ex:

• move C:\Users\Administrator\Documents to D:\Documents
• move C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads to D:\Downloads You also need to change download locations of browsers

Change download locations of browsers

• Chrome Change download locations - Chrome Help
• IE Internet Explorer - Change Default Download Location - Windows 7 Help Forums
• Firefox Where to find and manage downloaded files in Firefox | Firefox Help

Move sync folders to another drive of cloud storage

• dropbox: How do I move my Dropbox folder to a new location? (Dropbox Help Center)
• google drive: Change the Google Drive default folder - Google Apps Tips / google雲端硬碟如何更改至D槽 - 電腦討論區 - Mobile01

tentative: move the %Temp% to another drive

How to setup my system path

use the symbolic link

Using the symbolic link linking to another hard disk. ex: I tried to resolved insufficient hard disk space where mysql data located by using the symbolic link.