Positive. I've seen it on many systems. Its perfectly safe to delete, but I have yet to understand the nature of its creation.
-- Espi On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Jeff Bunting <[email protected]>wrote: > I've never seen one with an .old extension... You sure that wasn't > manually created? > > Jeff > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I hope you are joking. Have you looked at: >> >> %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Download >> %windir%\SoftwareDistribution.old >> >> Recently? There's a bunch more too. >> >> -- >> Espi >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Mayo, Bill <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I’m glad that Microsoft doesn’t waste any disk space with updates that >>> have already been applied.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:34 PM >>> >>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >>> *Subject:* Re: Allowing or not Allowing iTunes on corporate >>> computers????**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Intuit makes Apple and Adobe look like paragons of resource conservation. >>> **** >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < >>> [email protected]> wrote:**** >>> >>> Regardless of the issues of streaming, let me fill you on on some things >>> about Apple products - especially when related to iTunes: They are worse >>> than Adobe.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> 1. Their update process can break easily, more often on 64bit. I'm not >>> saying it common, but its easy. And its not easy to fix. IME it >>> frequently requires a manual wipe of some kind.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> 2. They cache all of their installation files. Just like what Adobe >>> Reader and related products do, they save/store install files of every >>> single downloaded "upgrade" that they process (firmware as well). As well >>> as multiple backups of devices that are attached/synched, and other crap. >>> If you are space-strapped, and have finite backup/sync windows - your >>> processes can be seriously impacted.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I've seen backups impacted by 10GB of older/cached upgrades of Apple >>> products per user. It just keeps growing over time until you manually >>> delete it. I've been a bit of a backup whore recently, so this in turn has >>> made me a disk-space analyst as well. I am extremely annoyed with Apple, >>> Adobe, and Quickbooks especially. Some of it can be easily compensated for >>> with scripts. Some of it, not so easily scripted without non-builtin tools. >>> >>> -- >>> Espi**** >>> >>> **** >>> >>> >>> >>> **** >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM, justino garcia <[email protected]> >>> wrote:**** >>> >>> iTunes removal has come up in our office. >>> >>> What is norm are you allowing iTunes on the network?**** >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Justin >>> IT-TECH**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to [email protected] >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to [email protected] >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to [email protected] >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to [email protected] >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
