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1. Sarah

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 1:03PM  

   Help! How do I set the shadow copy drive space limit? It's using 40+ Gig from my 200 Gig hard drive. The only help I can find on the Internet is to turn it off, then back on. That would wipe out all my current previous versions and still use a minimum of 15% of my drive space (30 GB). I do not need to use that much space (I only have a few GB of files), but no matter what I do between the Shadow Services and the Indexing, my drive is filling up with Gigs of data. After about 7 months of use, I'd say that Vista is using 30+ Gigs more than my previous XP machine. I'm not doing anything more than I did before, so I think that's nuts.

   Any ideas?
2. caywen

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 3:00PM  

   Shadow Copies was "only" chewing up 15gb on my box, but these reports of it chewing up 40-50gb are alarming.

   Isn't there a better way to do this, MS?
3. Quikboy

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 5:25PM  

   Hey, that's a pretty good video! I wasn't aware of that. It looks like a really easy and useful feature.

   I'm guessing there's no simple built-in XP, is there? :^(

   They should put these on the Windows.com site. Esther does a pretty good job of explaining and showing features.
4. Eric F

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 5:42PM  

   The VSSAdmin command-line utility can be used to limit the amount of storage that can be used for Volume Shadow Copies.

   See http://www.realtime-vista.com/administration/2007/07/resizing_volume_shadow_service.htm
5. someone

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 5:57PM  

   A really powerful features crippled by System Restore from XP and Vista. Why the hell does MS not modify XP so dual boot scenarios are not affected is beyond me. Already, Vista's market share is close to 15%, added to that is the fact that Previous Versions is only included in Business, Enterprise and Ultimate, and then there are users who've Vista but dual-boot between XP. So the actual number of users who'll end up using this powerful and useful feature will be very less, if MS's storage team modified XP so it doesn't delete Windows Vista and later OSes' shadow copies/restore points and vice versa, then Previous Versions will have real potential.
6. Allan

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 6:10PM  

   I have Previous version but i can't use it because it's blank. When i need to use it i don't see anything it's blank. Sometimes the content will show up when it feel like it. I did the KB thing below but did not work. I'm stuck with blank previous version. I also post this issue in Vista newsgroup no help. Maybe WEI will see this problem and report it.

   "Folder versions" list is blank, or you receive a message on Windows Vista: "There are no previous versions available"

   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937862/en-us
7. chakkaradeep

   
   Posted on: August 07, 2008 at 6:12PM  

   @caywen, instead of me lending you 15GB of space, why dont you try @Eric F's suggestion to limit the size utilized by the Volume Shadow Service :)
8. logic_earth

   
   Posted on: August 09, 2008 at 8:00PM  

   @Allan

   Maybe this will help you.

   http://logicearth.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/vista-previous-versions/