Files deleted from Groove 2007 Workspace - still remain on hard dr

[Peter Kuziw]

I create a Workspace and create a "Files" tool in it and I add a file to to
Workspace ... a big one, 170 MB so it is easy to spot. The file name is for
instance "abc.zip"

When I do it - I can see that Groove creates a big file (pretty close in
size to 170 MB) in the folder as below :
C:\Documents and Settings\user001\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Groove\System\Groovebinaryfilestore.xss_

The created file has a numeric name "15" ... I guess this is an encrypted,
Groove readable, copy of my "abc.zip".

Now I go to my Worksapce and delete the "abc.zip" file .... the file is gone
and Workspace "File" tool shows that there is nothing there.

But strangely enough - a 170 MB file with name "15" still remains in
C:\Documents and Settings\user001\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Groove\System\Groovebinaryfilestore.xss_
....I removed the file from the Workspace - but Groove 2007 still keeps its
encrypted copy (!)

The more files I add to the Workspace - the files piles up in my
C:\Documents and Settings\user001\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Groove\System\Groovebinaryfilestore.xss_ folder.
Deleting files from workspeace - does not reomve them from that folder !

Why Groove 2007 keeps those deleted files ?

How does one get rid of those already deleted files ?

Manual deleting is not really an option.

With busy Worksapces - once can quickly end up with space on C: drive
quickly consumed.

Am I missing something ?

 

[Mark Smith]

Hi Peter -

Groove does delete the file data, but keeps hold of the disk space. It will
re-use this disk space for the next 170 MB-worth of files you add to the
space. This is more efficient for Groove and generally does not cause a
problem.

The one situation where it does cause a problem is when you accidentally
drop a very large file into a space and then delete it without the intention
of adding such a file again. Groove maintains its grip on the space and you
never use it.

What you can do in this case is make an archive of that space, and create a
new copy of the space from the archive, invite all the space members into the
new copy and delete the old one.

I /believe/ there was supposed to be a mechanism whereby Groove would every
so often audit its disk space usage and trim things appropriately but I've
never noticed it happening.

 

[Peter Kuziw]

I would NOT agree that Groove somehow re-uses the disk space. I dropped some
more files to the "File" tool and each time a new, numeric-name file is
created in
C:\Documents and Settings\user001\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Groove\System\Groovebinaryfilestore.xss_
folder. This just seems to go forever and no disk space is ever recovered.

The only way to get disk space back is by deleting the workspace. This is
indeed a pathetic problem ...How can one design a software that that just
endlessly consumes the disk space...

And - there are other posts in this group about Groove eating disk space....

This is particularly annoying as I see no simple way to direct Groove to
store all data in another place rather than in "C:\Documents and
Settings\username\".

Is anyone from Microsoft reading this ?

PLEASE come up with some kind of a utility that would clean Groove system
folders from junk that keeps acumulating there !

PLEASE allow us to store our data where we want. Many people keep their
program files on C: and their all data files on an another drive. Easy for
backup, imaging, encryption, etc.

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[GWON]

The space consumed by a file then released is eventually cleaned up. This
happens in the back ground as a maintenance process. This will result in
many days before the space is reclaimed. I do not think there is a way to
trigger the cleanup or to accelerate the process.