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Google Desktop – hard drive space hog

04.22.08 | View Comments

Just a quick note to those who use Google Desktop for WIndows: it eats up hard drive space like nothing I’ve seen!  I ran out of disk space on my system partition yesterday while running a large video convertion task, and after some searching I found the culprit – Google Desktop creates an entirely different index for each user in your machine.  I use my laptop in different customer’s networks (and different AD domains), so I have about five user accounts in my machine.  Each index was taking up about 2 GB.  In my 30 GB system partition, you can see how that will quickly show up…  So a word of warning, if it feels like you should have more disk space than you do, check out your Google Desktop index at C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop.

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  • Manish Sharma
    not only google desktop, all google product swell by the time. I noticed Picasa and Earth, they too are behaving in the same. Damn I hate google products now.
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  • SATA
    You told many important thing i think because everyone will try to save space in hard drive.
  • kinderis
    Oh thanks for this announcement. I am actually using Google Desktop for few weeks now and I have seen that my disk space is going somewhere :)) Now everything is clear for me. But why google has done such a space - eating client? I can't understand this thing. Anyway thanks for this post, I will be waiting for other interesting posts from you.

    Sincerely,

    Mark Cliffson from telecom software development
  • james
    oh yeah. I also found out just recently that my google desktop (uninstalled 3 months ago) is using 14GB for its index.
  • Erik Arckens
    I installed google desktop with all indexing options "on"; currently the dbeam file in user/local settings/application data/google/google desktop is over 4Gb!!! I have one email account (gmail) and cuurently one main user only.

    Google desktop is a diskspace gobbler...
  • Hi Eric, thanks for dropping by (and sorry for the late reply)!

    With one user it's not so bad, now imagine you have 4 or 5 as I did :(

    I am now using windows Vista mostly (as I'm currently working with a lot of Microsoft stuff) and the built-in search in Vista is good enough for me.
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