Dell G5 C:Drive Full - SARemediation to blame?

Here's a similar thread with a solution posted by a Dell specialist. It seems System Repair takes snapshots of your system so you can roll back to them. I guess it can get overzealous and keep too many backups. I've turned off those services as soon as I got the computer. I use another tool to do my backups.

The solution is to open Control Panel > System and Security > Support Assist OS Recovery > Settings. 

There you can pick how much space you want these snapshots to take on your HDD, or you can turn this service off completely. 

@Skowsa13  And be sure to configure Win 10 so that its default folders are moved to the D drive which should free up space on the SSD.

You can probably uninstall some/most of your apps on the SSD and then reinstall them, but this time directing the installation onto the D drive. NOTE: You just can't move apps files from the SSD to the D drive. You have to uninstall them from the SSD first and reinstall on D. If you don't want to move the apps to the D drive, at least configure them to save their output files on D.

Thanks for the reply. The system setting was at 15GB and I knocked it down to 12GB. Not sure i want to fully turn it off right now. 

The Dell directory is now 20.8GB and my C Drive is full after clearing out 12GB of space 5 days ago....

Thanks, Ron.

I had set up all accounts on the desktop to save data to the D Drive when I got the computer. Unfortunately a lot of programs install to the C by default and you have to jump through hoops to force them on to the D. I may just reset the machine to as-new and start over. My kids will love that....

This is by far the biggest frustration on this machine. It is now beyond a joke.

Hi,

I have replied to you from a private message.

-Gautam.

@Skowsa13 honestly, I would turn that stuff off and use a better tool like Macrium Reflect (there's a free version) to image the entire system drive and save that image file somewhere else. That way if you ever need to reinstall your system, it takes 15 minutes to redeploy the image and be up and running. No need to spend hours on the phone with support and no space taken on your system drive.

Sorry for using what was considered profanity. Certainly not my intent and a phrase we use often to refer to "terrible", although I can understand why it was removed.