Need to direct ContentFile.BLOB to another drive
I am at a critical disk space level on my C: drive, which is a 240GB SSD. In reading the forums, this files is used by Active Protection. On suggestion was to turn that off. My thinking is to just direct it to another drive. I see no such option in the app, but there must be a way?
This is a video editing rig, that has a dozen TB across other drives.


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I'd be curious what is eating the rest of the drive as well. 240GB is fine for many basic setups, but is pretty small when applications and data are on it too. You can try to eek out more space by redirecting things like paging and swap files, removing windows update files, clearing cache and temp, or possibly even windows.old, but if space is that tight, you're probably better off upgrading to a 500GB drive.
Acronis is exactly the tool you would use to take a disk backup of the existing drive, then use the rescue media to restore the image to the new drive. Essentially, you would then just swap the old drive for the newly restored one and keep the old one on the shelf for a bit, just in case.
Like Steve, no idea about content.blob or any crazy sizing of it.
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Thanks for the responses. Oddly enough, the problem seems to have vanished. No idea what happened. From nearly out of space, to 60 GB free today. Will definitely keep an eye out for this phenomenon in the future.
Here is one of the posts that talks about this issue.
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Thanks for the post reference. Never seen it myself, but I'll keep it in mind.
Also, if "system volume information" becomes an issue for space, Windows has known bugs where it does not correctly follow the settings in computer management under protection settings:
from the desktop... this pc (right click - properties) >> system protection >> protection settings
If you see your C: drive listed more than once and at least one of them disabled, that is an issue. The fix is to turn system protection off both instances, which should remove the duplicate one. Then turn it back on again on the remaining C:drive (if you want). Even if you don't have multiple C: drives listed, it can still free up a lot of space from old restore points since this is where VSS snapshots for backups are temporarily created in Windows and Acronis and other backup tools, in addition to housing the Windows system restore points.
You will lose all existing system restore points doing this, but if it's F.U.B.A.R. already, then it doesn't matter as the restore points are likely to fail anyway and just be eating up unnecessary space there . Plus, you can immediately create a new system restore point, in the same window, right after you clear them out so you still have at least one current one, just in case.
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