Reclaim Your Space

Although hard disks are cheaper per gigabyte than they’ve ever been, many business machines come out with surprisingly low capacity disk drives.

However, when I received the dreaded “Low space on drive C” message after operating a new computer for just a couple of hours, I thought this needed further investigation.

I ran a scan over the files and directories in my local disk and found that the Logs directory in Documents/My Tableau Repository was taking up 55 gigabytes!

I deleted this without hesitation.  Team-mates have reported 35 gigabytes and 44 gigabytes.  Realistically you only ever need the last few days’ worth of logs.

Keep this in mind as a location to target whenever you think your local disk is getting a bit too full