Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:31 pm Post subject: Why does CE generate 100GB of junk files?
Recently, I found that my SSD was showing red with less than 100GB of remaining capacity. Upon using software to investigate, I discovered that the CE folder had generated three extremely large files. What are these files? Why are they being generated?
Would I need to regularly spend time checking if this folder has junk files and then manually delete them?
Those are scan results. Some scans, like searching for a value between 0 and 100 using the "All" value type, could lead to files over 10x bigger than the total size of the target's virtual memory space.
They get cleaned up when you press "New scan", but not when CE is closed it seems... I might consider that a bug, but maybe it's useful if you accidentally closed CE and the scan you were doing was important.
CE will automatically delete everything older than 2 days. If you want to do that more frequently, it should be safe to delete everything within "Temp/Cheat Engine" while CE is closed. Look online and I'm sure you'll find information regarding how to do this automatically.
If you have a better place to store temporary scan files, set it in "Edit -> Settings -> Scan Settings -> Don't store the temporary scanfiles in the windows tempdir" _________________
I don't know where I'm going, but I'll figure it out when I get there.
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