You'd only be freeing up a few kb to a half a megabyte of space. You could always format the drives if there is nothing else on them. That would clear away the logs but the folder will still be there, as Ambroos said it is part of the file system. Disk Cleanup with the Clean System Files option should get rid of any of that if it's safe to remove it.
I hate it when people come demanding help to do weird stuff without explaining why. Isnt the SVI folder where the restore points are stored? Which makes me believe there's something in those restores you don't want? I was always under the impression that disabling the system restore just erased all the restore points. Just need to give yourself permission, then delete the files inside -- you might have to turn off the distributed tracking service, this uses the tracking.
Im at a loss to why you would think you need to delete this folder or files inside of it.. There would be no legit reason to do this. But again there is NO reason I can think of why you would think you need to do such a thing..
And am very curious to your reasoning. Well I just did it on windows 7, and yes your right distributed link tracking client is what its called.. I left out the link part, sorry.. But looks like you do not have to stop this service anyway. I just deleted it with the service running. You will notice the folder icon change to having a padlock on it, and you will be able to access the contents of the folder..
Then from a elevated cmd prompt just remove the system and hidden attributes on the tracking. It will just recreate itself though -- so again not sure what your wanting to accomplish? If there are more than that tracking.
I don't think you've explained exactly why you have to remove it. Even if you do remove it, it will be recreated. Is the goal to clear restore points?
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Click the View tab. It's the second tab at the top of the Folder Options window. Select Don't show hidden files, folders, or drives. It's under the "Hidden files and folders" header. Check the box next to "Hide protected operating system files Recommended. Click OK. Now that you've hidden the appropriate files and folders, you should no longer see the System Volume Information folder when you insert the USB drive into your PC.
If you use the USB drive anywhere else, such as in your car or on another PC, the changes will not carry over to that system. This means the System Volume Information folder will still be visible on those systems. Method 3. You can also open it by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting File Explorer.
If you are worried there are rogue files inside your System Volume Information folder, you can use this method to delete the folder from your flash drive. If you haven't already done so, run a virus scan on the computer and remove any viruses that are found. Double-click your flash drive. You should see it in the center panel, but if you don't, it'll be in the left panel under "This PC" or "Computer. A context menu will expand. Make sure you're not clicking on a file or folder—just a blank part of the right panel.
Click Open command prompt window here. This opens the command prompt window to the correct folder. Enter the commands to delete the folder. This will delete the folder from the flash drive for now. Remember, the folder will be recreated in the future, although it will no longer contain large system restore points. If your flash drive is formatted with the NTFS file system, you will see an error that says the folder can't be deleted. There is no way to take ownership of the folder in this situation, but you can reformat the drive to the exFAT or FAT32 file system so you can delete the folder in the future.
It might be that the system volume information was already deleted or that the command you wrote was in the wrong format. Not Helpful 1 Helpful Even after using the command prompt, when I reinsert the pen drive it shows the "System Volume Information" folder. What should I do? Windows recreates this file every time you plug in. So you actually delete the folder but Windows makes a new one.
Not Helpful 25 Helpful Not Helpful 9 Helpful Abdulkhamid Eshov. Approx gb. Cleaned it with these litle tricks!!! Now i know where space were wasted due to misconfiguration of the limits of the disk space used by VSS. Life saver of the server!! I now have plenty of free space after resetting the maxsize. Excellent article — terrific detective work. Yeah, it was just 30GB, but this was driving me crazy. I has a similar issue on an Hyper-v cluster.
Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Leave this field empty. Home About. April 15, Windows 10 Windows Server It is not recommended to manually delete files in System Volume Information folder, since it stores information for system recovery and data for some critical services.
This command will delete all chunks in the System Volume Information directory and the unoptimized files on the volume will revert to their original size. Therefore, before disabling optimization, make sure that there is enough free disk space.
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