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Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space (arstechnica.com)
The next update to Windows 10, due to be released in October, will be smarter about how it frees up disk space and cleans up temporary files. Ars Technica reports: As part of its Storage Sense feature, Windows will be able to automatically remove the local copies of OneDrive files (unless they've been set as always available offline). The operating system will determine which files to remove based on when they were opened: files used more recently than a certain number of days will be retained locally, while those that haven't been used will be replaced with placeholders. The system will remove files until the operating system reckons it has enough free space for normal operation.
Storage Sense will also be able to remove temporary or otherwise unneeded files such as system logs and image thumbnails. It will also be able to remove old files from the download directory. The temporary-file cleanup (which can also remove certain cache files, driver packages, old anti-virus definitions, and more) was previously handled by the Disk Cleanup tool. That tool is now deprecated, as Storage Sense does everything it used to do and more. Storage Sense can perform its cleanup process periodically (every day, week, or month) or automatically whenever the system is low on disk space.
Storage Sense will also be able to remove temporary or otherwise unneeded files such as system logs and image thumbnails. It will also be able to remove old files from the download directory. The temporary-file cleanup (which can also remove certain cache files, driver packages, old anti-virus definitions, and more) was previously handled by the Disk Cleanup tool. That tool is now deprecated, as Storage Sense does everything it used to do and more. Storage Sense can perform its cleanup process periodically (every day, week, or month) or automatically whenever the system is low on disk space.
Apple's approach in insane. Its either 'let us do it all for you' or 'well fuck you, you are on your own'. Also, they have two different paradigms for how they treat the device. Itunes treats the device as disposable, where all master copies reside on the computer. For photos, it treats the device as a sacred repository where anything deleted of it also deletes the master copy on the server. Its outright stupid.
Good-bye
... all the temporary folders created by programs in the %LOCALAPPDATA% folder hierarchy.
e.g.: Whenever you open a file attachment in Outlook it gets saved into [C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.Outlook\H83V4PYQ], which is not your temp folder [C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp] and, despite the [INetCache] in there, this folder does not get touched by cache clean up in Internet Options.
None of this gets cleaned up by the Disk Cleanup Wizard and I doubt this new tool will help with that either.
It's slow, it's crappy and I advice against getting such machines (I have a Chinese tablet with 64GB, split up in something like 40GB for Win10 and 20GB for Android or so... The specs are decent enough, but I'm pretty sure the bottleneck is the eMMC)
I mean, even the Surface 3 (not Surface Pro 3), a Microsoft product uses eMMC. The Surface Go does too.
So, yes storage is ubiquitous, except when it isn't... and people can and will buy these devices because they don't know any better.
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Friend of mine has an iPhone and wants to go to Android. But somehow she is unae to download her 6000 photos of her travels around the world.
So eother ditch sevetal years of memory, or stick with Apple.
There are many ways to accomplish this. One would be prior to ditching her iPhone, sync those photos to service of choice. Google Photos I assume can do this for instance.