Tag: read-only inventory

Ninety-Four Gigabytes of Subtraction: One Day of C-Drive Accounting from 12GB to 106GB Free, the Respect for the No-Touch Register, and Personal Data Listed but Untouched

A full read-only inventory took the C drive from 12GB free to 106.05GB (77.2%), releasing about 94GB in a single day; the cleanup walked with two registers in hand — recoverable items graded by cost (.zcode at 21GB requiring item-by-item naming, .gradle at 10.2GB meaning full dependency re-downloads, the NVIDIA DXCache at 9.1GB a historical no-touch zone never to be touched without explicit naming, CompactOS reversible for 10-20GB), and personal data listed under the deletion-equals-loss principle and left alone (about 24GB of Roaming app data, 13.9GB of QQ chats, about 14GB of desktop projects, collections and documents besides); The Sims 4 was verified cleanly deleted (the Steam directory shrinking from 35.6 to 1.93GB). The discipline of disk governance is the same as siegecraft: every deletion must carry a name, a cost, and a reversibility assessment.