Windows 10: questions about filehistory and why its taking all my space

basically just found out that windows has been backing up gigs and gigs of useless storage of things ive already deleted nor will i ever need again, and has folders of 200+ gigs hoarding up my 2tb. i tried a filehistory clean and couldn't select 2 year or 1 year so settled for 6 months, only for it to free 324g and leave uncounted more gigs still holding up my 2tb. they've backed up their OWN shitty ads for their shitty games, they've backed up shitty images for their shitty games, they've backed up text files of "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1234567890", i understand these files will be kilobytes to megabytes in size but that's not the problem, the problem is that windows is filling my computer with its garbage i dont use. can i just completely delete this file or will it cause problems? should i turn auto backup off? cause the settings are set to backup every hour forever and if its been doing that for the 3 years my computers been alive...... why cant i fucking choose 2+ years cleanup? getting reallllll sick and tired of windows, heard my family complain about it for years but am now experiencing it and if it wasnt for the fact that all my games need to run on windows id have this virus off my computer. so how do i fix your shit.

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FileHistory stops working

Hello

In have FileHistory backup not working correctly.

After my desktop backup for the portioned drives C: and D: stopped say 6 weeks ago. I have tried a number of suggestions from the form but have not got things working until yesterday 27/6/2020.

After using the same USB extension drive to back up my laptop which worked.

I tried the same usb derive with the desktop and found that by selecting the drive as new a new list of folders to be backedup was created only for drive C: and the FileHistory back up worked again.

Now IF I add any folder on derive D: to the backup list FileHistory stops working.

If I remove the D: related folder FileHistory works again.

When FileHistory stops working event viewer shows the 1st error message .

In the past when FileHistory didn't work EV showed both errors.

Unable to scan user librariles for changes and perform backup.

C:\Users\pflet\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\Config

File/directory was not backed up due to being encrypted or insefficent permissions.

D:\System Volume Information.

As enyone seen this?

Could this be the System volume information folder on D: ?

Can this folder be replaced / repaired ? I carn't see it being encrypted. Dont Know about permissions.

Thanks in advance. Paul

 

AMD FX OC'ers Club

That's what the auto setting will do since you're over the 1333 mark it jumps to the next step which isn't listed or officially supported I assume by that ram.

At this point though I would suggest dropping the multi one step or .5 so that we can get something stable and possibly take the heat issue out of the picture for now.

 

Event 202, FileHistory-Core

Hi,

To better help you with this concern, please answer the following questions:

• Did you make any changes on the computer before you encountered this issue?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done?

In the meantime, we suggest that you remove the external hard drive on the computer and plug it back in. Once done, please check if the issue still occurs.

We'll be waiting for your response.