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Deleting old Thinkvantage installers

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:11 pm
by Optigrab
Questions here, partially answered in an old thread:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=32386

May I safely delete every folder within
C:\Program Files\Lenovo\System Update\session
except the *.ser file and the *.xml file under the "Sessions" directory? (There are no other files in the "Sessions" directory.)

I wonder, what are the caveats (if any) of deleting these folders/files?

Why doesn't Software Update clean up these files itself, since they do take up quite a lot of space?

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:01 am
by ryengineer
The whole folder (System Update) takes just over 300 MB on my machine. You can delete the files you listed and add "system" and "temps" folder to your "do not delete list" too.

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:31 am
by Optigrab
Thanks. So everything can go except the System folder Temp Folder,
*.ser file and the *.xml file.

The session folder takes 2.3GB on my machine, so you can see why I'd like to shed some files.