mertzi Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Hello!I upgraded to Sync 2 a while back and now automatically install updates through BT sync. Then I remembered it is pretty common that developers don't put an effort into clean up mechanisms, especially after downloading upgrade files (Google might take the first price with Chrome). So I checked the BT Sync folder in Roaming and found it is pretty big. 919 MB to be exact. I have enough space on my PC, but on e.g. a cheap laptop with limited storage this would be an issue.500 mb seems to be only log files and almost all the rest is for the database which I of course understand is essential. I also found that the previous versions executables are renamed and saved as .tmp files e.g. BTSync.exe.25160.tmp which I can understand is necessary in the update process, but I can not understand why they are kept afterwards?Have a nice day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkrazz Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 Agreed, I would like cleanup of the folder to be done. I have 1/2 a gig of wasted space in my folder, but I don't know what I can delete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamathumper Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 1.87 GB for me! Any way to clean up?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moe Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 You can get rid of .journal, .journal.zip, .log and sync.log.*.zip But if you run into issues and the Sync Support Team asks for your logs - you just deleted them so be mindful about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mertzi Posted December 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 A late follow-up. I did a complete re-installation and then thoroughly reviewed everything in the settings and now I keep the sync folder in roaming to be about the same size as the database. I'm still on 2.1.4 because I had a lot of issues with later versions and 2.1.4 is flawless for me so if you're on a later version the settings look a little different. But what I've done is: Under advanced settings:- Untick "Always check for updates..."- Untick "Enable debug logging" Under advanced settings > more settings:- Set log size to 1- Disable "send statistics" (I assume this setting requires some kind of logging) If you don't want to re-install you can in addition to what Moe said also delete all previous exe's looking like this: "BTSync.exe.25160.tmp"Do NOT delete any *.db files, I think that's your file index. Edit: If I exclude the database all other files take exactly 27,4 MB and that is since late september, so my settings work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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