Huge exccess Data folders, and unsure of deleting them

[Karl Blessing]

my C:\Program Files is about 6 gigs(sure thats understandable for most people but I know I dont have that much) then I traced it down to common files, but thats not where it was, the folder that held 5 Gigs was<br><br>C:\Program Files\Common files\Symantec Shared\VirusDefs\<br><br>two of the folders under that hold about 2.5Gigs each, named<br>\20000619.039<br>and<br>\20000622.018<br><br>My question is it ok to delete some of those folders, as some of the folders under them say TMP*..., but I am thinking there is no way that my virus definitions are 5 gigs. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[AAP]

Hmm.., your safest bet is probably to move the files somewhere else eg. C:\TEMP\20000619.039 and C:\TEMP\20000622.018<br><br>If everything runs smoothly for a few days then delete them, if not then move them back.<br><br>In my experience any filename.tmp can usually be deleted without any problem.

 

[Karl Blessing]

I went to Norton's site, and it states that sometimes AV doesnt delete the older definitions, in which case delete all folders, except for the 2 newest<br><br>YearMonthDay/<br><br>also the files that were takin space in those folders were *.tmp, so i deleted those, everything works fine now, cant belive it never cleaned those up. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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