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Why does youtube take up so much space on my computer?
« on: September 29, 2006, 03:05:33 AM »
Whenever I download a couple of youtube video's on my computer a screen pops up asking me to delete space saying I'm at 130 free discspace and I need to be at 200.

What should I do?
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Re: Why does youtube take up so much space on my computer?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2006, 03:12:35 AM »
Quote from: Hajj Abdul-Infinite...BANNED FOR SPEAKING TRUTH! on September 29, 2006, 03:05:33 AM
Whenever I download a couple of youtube video's on my computer a screen pops up asking me to delete space saying I'm at 130 free discspace and I need to be at 200.

What should I do?

throw your computer away.... 8)
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Re: Why does youtube take up so much space on my computer?
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2006, 04:04:22 AM »


why this is happening is that when you're watching videos youtube puts the video file on your computer temporarily for you to watch (this is called caching)... the location it puts the video is likely to be the temporary internet files folder set by internet explorer.

in short.. though.. free up some disk space on the drive the folder i mentioned is on, or redirect to to another drive (if you have one)
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