I've gone through the Winrar options to paths tab - Folder for temporary files is. And I watch my hard disk ( C: ) go critically low on disk space.
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“My WinRAR diagnosing error message that ‘Not enough memory’. Please anyone suggest me regarding fixing this issue.”
Often it happens that when you try to extract files from RAR archive or while saving RAR files on your system as mentioned in above query. It is very scary to notice that your essential WinRAR file displaying error message and gets damaged or locked up due to this kind of errors. If you are dealing with WinRAR error not enough disk space, then you have stepped into the right page. This page gives you suitable resolutions for all types of unexpected error messages related to WinRAR.
When do you get WinRAR not enough memory Error?
In this error “memory” indicates not hard drive storage space, it means RAM temporary swap space or virtual disk memory. In case your system do not have enough Random access Memory (RAM) to perform tasks like opening or adding files to RAR files, then WinRAR become victim for “Not enough memory” error message.
In order to overcome this kind of scenarios, you can make some manual setting to change the path. Go to Option -> click on Setting -> select Paths and type “.” to unzip RAR file directly to the current directory instead to temporary location. If you are unable to access WinRAR file after even after using this method, then go for good RAR file repair utility like Yodot RAR Repair to fix invalid or corrupt RAR files.
About WinRAR file repair software:
Yodot RAR Repair tool is used to fix WinRAR archive after not enough memory space error due to above discussed issue. You can repair RAR file and retrieve all its files of various formats. One can fix inaccessible or unreadable RAR archives created in various versions of WinRAR application such as WinRAR 2.00, 2.90, 3.50, 3.70, 3.80, 3.90 and 4.00. The application renovates the corrupt or damaged WinRAR files on any storage media on different version of Windows operating system such as Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, Windows Server 2008 and 2003. In addition, you can mend password protected WinRAR files.
Steps to fix RAR file after WinRAR error not enough memory:
- Download the Yodot RAR Repair utility and install it to your Windows system
- After that launch the software and follow the onscreen guiding instructions
- Select the RAR file showing not enough disk space error using “Browse” option and then click on “Repair” button, to fix that WinRAR file
- This tool will begin to scan and repairs the corrupted or damaged RAR archive
- After renovating the RAR files, the software displays the list of files or folders of fixed RAR archive
- Further click on “Save” button to save your RAR file on your preferred location
Preventive Steps:
- Backup your essential WinRAR files on some other storage devices
- Try to know the reasons behind WinRAR error messages and go according to cause to fix the problem
- Use quality and authenticate third party software to repair inaccessible RAR file
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Recently I'd downloaded a bunch of stuff overnight, one of the files being a 2.4Gb WinRar archive. Since I had less than 2Gb left on my PC drive I decided to extract the file directly to my external drive, rather than copy the Rar to the external and extract there (thought it would save time).
During the extraction an error message popped up saying there was not enough disk space to proceed, despite there being around 50Gb free on the external. I checked 'My Computer' and my C drive now had around 100Mb of free space left, despite the Rar being extracted to the external drive (100% sure of this - I'm assuming it created some sort of temporary files on the C drive & thats what ate all the space).
I thus cancelled the process but the C drive still showed ~100Mb. I rebooted, hoping this would delete any temporary files, no change. I ran the Windows XP disk cleanup thing, checking all the options, still no change. I rebooted again and ran all the disk cleanup things in Uniblue Powersuite, still no change. I copied the Rar to the external drive, deleted the file on the PC and rebooted but the missing ~2GB was still not restored.
So now my harddrive has 2Gb less capacity than it should. I can't find any temporary files anywhere (searched all files, looked in temp filders and Winrar folders, didnt find any of similar size or name to the Rar file itself or the contents of the rar file) and the Rar itself is not corupted (extracted fine with all files working when it was ont he external drive). I can't seem to find the offending files anywhere and rebooting doesnt help as described above - any ideas? There were obvisouly files copied to C drive during the process of extracting files from a host Rar file on the C drive to a destination folder on an external drive, but these files seem to have disapeared but are still taking up space.
Did you check the temp folder by opening explorer and going to %TEMP%? %TEMP% should resolve to the current temp directory.
Also, do you have hidden and system files showing? Sometimes space can disappear into things like pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys or some other hidden file.
Finally, get yourself a disk usage viewer tool. These create various graphical representations of space usage to help you find wasted space. Here are three that I can recommend:
Treesize - available in Free, Personal, and Pro with increasing features
Spacemonger - v1.4 is free, newer versions are paid and have more features
WinDirStat - free open source (FOSS) under GPL
Treesize - available in Free, Personal, and Pro with increasing features
Spacemonger - v1.4 is free, newer versions are paid and have more features
WinDirStat - free open source (FOSS) under GPL
I agree with ScottW completely. It's good to have hidden and system files showing. Also it's good to delete .tmp files.
One more thing - I don't really like Uniblue. Try Auslogics BoostSpeed http://www.auslogics.com/go/forum/en/software/boost-speed. It worked really well for me.
One more thing - I don't really like Uniblue. Try Auslogics BoostSpeed http://www.auslogics.com/go/forum/en/software/boost-speed. It worked really well for me.
Thanks guys, its fixed now. I used Treesize (download links on Spacemonger didnt work & Auslogics link was broken btw), found a temporary rar file folder in c:documents & settingsusernamemy documentslocal settings that was the culprit & deleted it thru the Treesize interface.
The problem was... I'm unable to view my hidden files so I didn't notice the Local Settings folder when I looked initially. I think this is a seperate issue unto itself - when I click the radio button to view hidden files then 'apply' nothing happens (when I reopen the menu it has automatically went back to 'do not show hidden files'). I've tried going thru the registry too (to that key that ends ...SHOWALL) and changing the selected value from 0 to 1 - when I navigate away from that registry key then go back to it the value has reset itself back to 0 (i.e. exact same thing happens as when trying to view files via the menu & radio button). When I start up my PC sometimes an error message pops up along lines of 'unable to start process kavo.exe' sometimes says 2.exe or tavo.exe, I'm guessing this is some sort of virus/trojan?
Is this a common problem, i.e. is there a class of viruses etc known as 'hidden file trojans' or some sort of other commonly used phrase that would be easily searchable for so I can find out how to fix this? The processes named in the error messages are never running in the task list so getting rid of them might not fix the inability to view hidden files?
Thanks again.
Dex, glad you got your space back! Hurray for TreeSize, it's my favorite. Nice that it shows hidden file space despite the setting in Windows.
It would not surprise me that the malware would try to hide itself using a hidden file and disabling view hidden files whenever it gets enabled. I would suggest that you try this operation in safe mode and run some spyware scanners to find the malware.
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