{"id":10578,"date":"2019-07-25T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2020-09-15T23:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T21:00:54","slug":"windows-10-snipit-occupy-disk-capacity-with-snipusages-snipusagesupload-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/07\/25\/windows-10-snipit-occupy-disk-capacity-with-snipusages-snipusagesupload-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: SnipIT occupy disk capacity with SnipUsages \/ SnipUsagesUpload files"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]A brief tip for Windows 10 users who suddenly suffer from a full system drive and find gigabyte-sized text files with names like SnipUsages<\/em> or SnipUsagesUpload<\/em> in the user profile. <\/p>\n

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\"\"Some Windows 10 users complain that their system drive suddenly has no free capacity. I have now come across a special case where I can even present a solution. <\/p>\n

SnipUsagesUpload and SnipUsages occupy the disk<\/h2>\n

A few days ago I was contacted by an acquaintance who owns a notebook with Windows 10 and noticed that the 128 GByte SSD had hardly any free capacity left. I gave him a hint to look at Windows.old<\/em> and try a disk cleanup. In addition, I gave him the tip to look at the drive assignment with tools like TreeSize<\/em>. A few days later I got a hint that he found an unused Office365 on the machine. By uninstalling it, he was able to free a few gigabytes of memory on the SSD. But he ran into problems, as the following mail showed a few days later. <\/p>\n

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Hi G\u00fcnter, due to lack of memory I cannot update to 1903. Under AppData\/Local\/ I found the test files SnipUsagesUpload and SnipUsages, which together occupy about 70 GB hard disk space and are actually even larger. Can I delete them? I would be happy if you could help me. A yes or no would be enough for me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I then searched the Internet for the keywords SnipUsagesUpload<\/em> and SnipUsages<\/em> and found what I was looking for.<\/p>\n

Multiple hits on the Internet<\/h2>\n

The most prominent and first hit I found on a search engine can be found in this reddit.com posting<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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SnipUsagesUpload.txt and SnipUsages.txt<\/p>\n

\"\"Anyone know what these are or where they come from before I delete this sht. SnipUsagesUpload.txt is 73.8GB and SnipUsages.txt is 15.4GB. Someone said this stf shouldnt be on my pc and that I should delete it but I feel like I should know what in the world files this big are before i send it to the netherworld<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So also the well-known 'error pattern, the files SnipUsagesUpload.txt<\/em> and SnipUsages.txt <\/em>has been mentioned. The files located in the profile folder occupy many gigabytes of drive capacity. Another user confirms this problem, but I did not find a clue to the cause. The same user on reddit.com complains<\/a> about the capacity loss of his Surface Pro 4 in this thread. Another user on this website<\/a> complains about a 2 GB text file. a massive capacity loss of his SSD. <\/p>\n

All other hits to those file names appear in forums that deal with malware. I told the affected friend to delete the files and indicate that he should search for the cause. <\/p>\n

The culprits: SnipInsights and SnipIT<\/h2>\n

During my search I first came across a program called SnipInsights, which is provided by Microsoft in its Microsoft AI School in source code here<\/a>. The description says: Snip Insights is a cross-platform open source AI tool for creating intelligent screen copies. The AppUsageLogger.cs<\/a> module contains references to exactly these two files. And then the acquaintance contacted me with another e-mail in which the veil was lifted: <\/p>\n

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after the deletion I had enough space again (instead of 3.6 Gb now 80 Gb) for the installation. Windows actually needs almost 10 Gb for this. On the search for the tool I probably found it. It is a small portable application called SnipIT. After the upgrade to 1903 and a restart I found the txt file SnipUsages in the local folder again. I have been using SnipIT on different Windows computers for years and never had any problems. I also find a txt file with 100 Gb strange. I removed it now. In the settings of the application there was no indication of any automatic protocol behavior??? <\/p>\n

Thanks again. Lost almost a whole day because of the fiddling. This used to be true for Linux, now it's true for Windows. Could it be that Windows is increasingly falling out of time? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If you search for SnipIT, you will find it on the relevant sites such as CNet<\/a> and softonic<\/a>. The description says that SnipIT is an add-on for Windows Internet Explorer. The software is installed in the IE browser and offers the possibility to create screenshots and send them as text by email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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