User Guide

User’s Guide 21
Freeing Disk Space
 NOTE: By default, files are backed up before they are deleted. The
compressed backup uses less disk space than the deleted files, and gives
you a chance to recover deleted files later. Each time you run the
SpaceMaker wizard, you can turn off backups or specify a different
location for the backups.
Choose the SpaceMaker wizard to:
• Quickly create free space on one of your drives.
You can specify the drive and the amount of space you want to free. As
soon as SpaceMaker frees the specified amount of space, it stops deleting
files. If you choose to free as much space as possible, the wizard continues
to delete files until it can find no more files that are old enough to delete in
the categories you have chosen.
• Delete files from more categories than QuickClean.
SpaceMaker lets you delete files that some users might need, such as
bitmap and multimedia files, backup files that have the .BAK extension,
temporary files that Windows or Windows applications generate, screen
savers, online help files, and so on.
No file is deleted if it has been modified or accessed within the period
specified by the SpaceMaker page of the Settings dialog box. The default
period is 180 days.
Changing defaults for SpaceMaker
From the main QuickClean window, click Options and select Settings from the
drop-down menu. In the next window displayed, select SpaceMaker. The
SpaceMaker Settings window is displayed with its preset defaults shown.
Each time you run SpaceMaker you can change most defaults temporarily.
The one default that you cannot change when the wizard is running is the age
that files must be before they can be deleted.