Cached Files gobbling up space
Some 6 months ago I posted an observation in this forum describing how under Windows XP, QT 7.4 was accumulating excessive disk space from files in a "downloads" folder. I asked if anyone knew the purpose of, and need for, this increasing disk space.
I assume that either no-one knew, or no-one cared, because the thread ("Files accumulating in a "downloads" folder") received no replies prior to being archived.
I recently installed QT 7.5 (and later 7.5.5) on a different computer running Vista. In some 8 weeks, during which QT has hardly been used (installed for iTunes), I now find over *_80 MB_* used by 9 files (and 37 subfolders) in QT's "downloads" folder.
In XP, the location was...
\Documents and Settings\(user)\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\downloads
In Vista, the equivalent location is...
\Users\(user)\AppData\LocalLow\Apple Computer\QuickTime\downloads
All files have .qtch extensions, which I believe means "QuickTime Cached Files".
Am I the only one concerned that a near-idle QT seems to consume so much additional space? Does no-one know the files' reason/purpose? Or care?
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I assume that either no-one knew, or no-one cared, because the thread ("Files accumulating in a "downloads" folder") received no replies prior to being archived.
I recently installed QT 7.5 (and later 7.5.5) on a different computer running Vista. In some 8 weeks, during which QT has hardly been used (installed for iTunes), I now find over *_80 MB_* used by 9 files (and 37 subfolders) in QT's "downloads" folder.
In XP, the location was...
\Documents and Settings\(user)\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\downloads
In Vista, the equivalent location is...
\Users\(user)\AppData\LocalLow\Apple Computer\QuickTime\downloads
All files have .qtch extensions, which I believe means "QuickTime Cached Files".
Am I the only one concerned that a near-idle QT seems to consume so much additional space? Does no-one know the files' reason/purpose? Or care?
.
Various PCs, Windows Vista
