Remove Old Chrome Versions To Save Disk Space
Back in the beginning of last year I ran a piece on how to free up disk space by removing older versions of the Chrome web browser.
I started to investigate the issue after installing a Solid State Drive on my computer and noticing that it filled up rather quickly with auto-generated data. Turned out that Chrome was keeping old versions of the browser available in the Chrome directory.
And while some users reported that only the last but one version was kept by Google Updater, multiple versions were kept by my Chrome installation.
This all in all turned out to waste more than 2 Gigabytes of space on my previous SSD which I could not use for other tasks instead.
Having to open the directory manually regularly is without doubt not the best way of handling the issue. Since Chrome is updating fairly regularly, you might have to check every month or so to delete unneeded versions of the browser from your hard drive.
Update: The author of Old Chrome Remover discontinued the program noting that Google fixed the issue with leftover installation files in the user directory. While the program is no longer available, users may use the author's System Ninja temporary file cleaner as it contains the functionality as well.
You can read our review of System Ninja here.
Remove old Chrome installations
Old Chrome Remover is a free program for the Windows operating system that can remove old versions of the Google Browser automatically from the system. It will automatically check for Chrome installations on the system when run and display all old version in a window afterwards.
The application supports not only Chrome Stable installations but also other Chrome installations including cutting edge Canary builds. Please note that it will display and offer to delete all old versions from the hard drive, with no option to manually select the versions you want deleted.
You need to press the Y key on the keyword to have the program delete all outdated Chrome installations on the system. If you do not want that you can press any other key to leave everything as is. You need to close all instances of the Chrome browser prior to deleting the old Chrome folders on the system. You will receive an access denied error message otherwise. The program needs to be run with elevated privileges under Vista and Windows 7.
Note that you should not run the tool if you have multiple Chrome channels installed on your system, as it will delete ALL old instances which means that you will end up with only one working version of Chrome (this happened on my system where I was running Dev and Canary builds of the browser. After running the tool, only the Canary build was still available, while the Dev build was not).
Old Chrome Remover is therefor only an option if you are running one version of Chrome on your system. Advanced users can use the /AUTO parameter to run the program silently.
I recently played through Chrono Trigger (a few times) on DraStic myself, and I know exactly what parts you’re referring to. :)
Also, for extra credit.
DraStic’s .dsv files are essentially raw .sav files, but with a few bytes of DeSmuME-specific data appended to the end (specifically so that this procedure outlined by Ashwin will work). On the other hand MelonDS (my preferred DS emulator on PC) cannot interpret this DeSmuME-specific data, and will need to be stripped out by a hex editor. In this case, you need to use a hex editor to strip it out. Open the file, find this at the very end:
|<–Snip above h
ere to create a
raw sav by exclu
ding this DeSmuM
E savedata foote
r:…………..
……….|-DESM
UME SAVE-|
…remove it, and save. Now you have a save file that you can import into any DS emulator that supports raw .sav files (presumably DeSmuME as well, though I have not tried).
Thanks for that.
MelonDS is pretty good too. There is a new QT version in the works.
https://twitter.com/Arisotura/status/1255059225371435011
This worked from DraStic to MelonDS Android as well!
DraStic seems smoother for the time being, but it’s nice to know you can transfer anytime.
Nice tip foolishgrunt.
Off topic but does anyone know the best way to play the original Majora’s Mask on Win10? Best emulator for it I guess?
Project64 https://www.pj64-emu.com/. Pretty straightforward to use. Enable the N64 plugin.
You could try Mupen64, it’s good too.
There are some pretty good texture packs that you can install to make the graphics look better.
http://www.emutalk.net/threads/56677-Majora-s-Mask-N64HD-Project
Just FYI, the 3DS remake which has some QoL improvements, runs flawlessly on Citra.
Thanks Ashwin
I don’t have those options ‘Import Backup Memory”
I have desmume 0.9.11 x64 on Linux
Thanks for the info. I was playing a game called “Last window: secret of Cape West” (which wasn’t released where i live) and at one point there’s a puzzle that makes a rather weird usage of the DS’s hardware sensors, which i needed to test on a real DS.
To convert a Drastic save file into a usable save file for the DSTwo cartridge, you just need to shave off the extra bytes with a command like:
dd bs=1024 count=256 if=”input.dsv” of=”output.sav”
…for a 256Kb save file. This should work on any Unix system, ie. Linux (including Android itself) BSD, MacOS etc. For winblows, well….
Haven’t (yet) tested the reverse operation, but i’d presume if simply copying the file saved on the DSTwo back to the Drastic dir on my phone doesn’t work, i’d just need to re-append the extra few bytes at the end.
Transferring the file from Desmume to Drastic doesn’t seem to work for me. I have a DSV and a NDS file with the same name in the backup folder from Drastic on my phone. But when I boot up the game in Drastic it just starts a new game. Anyone an idea what I could be doing wrong?
Try changing the save file to .dsv instead of .sav, worked for me.
ok i try the drastic to desmume method with pokemon mystery dungeon explolers of sky and it doesnt work for me for some reason i just get new game option X_X
Same