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  • #1
  • First Post: Nov 8, 2009 7:17am Nov 8, 2009 7:17am
Hi,

I have been backtesting an EA today and it has ate up over 10gb of disk space!! I uninstalled matatrader and deleted the folders, yet my disk space is not back.

Can anyone help please?
  • #2
  • Nov 8, 2009 8:13am Nov 8, 2009 8:13am
Quoting gangsta1
Hi,

I have been backtesting an EA today and it has ate up over 10gb of disk space!! I uninstalled matatrader and deleted the folders, yet my disk space is not back.

Can anyone help please?
there is a copy of parts of the folder structure somewhere below %APPDATA%. This is a microsoft invention, they replaced an existing problem (programs writing into read only folders) by an even more bizzarre and confusing one (allowing them to do so without error message while silently redirecting write access to somewhere else and thus creating a completely unmaintanable mess).

Next time install metatrader somewhere inside your home folder ("My Documents") to avoid this confusion. It is not designed to be run in "Program Files" without problems.
  • #3
  • Nov 8, 2009 9:00am Nov 8, 2009 9:00am
Quoting 7bit
there is a copy of parts of the folder structure somewhere below %APPDATA%. This is a microsoft invention, they replaced an existing problem (programs writing into read only folders) by an even more bizzarre and confusing one (allowing them to do so without error message while silently redirecting write access to somewhere else and thus creating a completely unmaintanable mess).

Next time install metatrader somewhere inside your home folder ("My Documents") to avoid this confusion. It is not designed to be run in "Program Files" without problems....
Thats excellent help, thank you sir.

However, I cannot locate within appdata the logs, history or any metatrader directories. Therefore I cannot remove them. Any idea what directory or file name I should look for?
  • #4
  • Last Post: Nov 8, 2009 9:09am Nov 8, 2009 9:09am
Okay, Found it!

It was in the VirtualStrore directory.

Many Thanks!
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