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Post From: Problems facing due to size on disk which is 63 GB

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bradh - Posts: 854
That is market data from providers, which is the result of trading activity going on in the world. The size is determined by not only the number of days your chart is requesting, but the oldest date recorded in the file, and the intraday data storage time unit. The latter is going to make the biggest files if you set it to "1 Tick", as it represents market data on a trade by trade basis. The first thing I would do is delete all the SCID files and then reload your charts. Only the dates needed by the chart will be downloaded and therefore changed. If you have have been trading Forex for a while your files will keep growing. With futures data, a new SCID file gets created when the contract rolls over, so you can delete the older (e.g. > 1 year) SCID files and free up space that way too. The fresh download could take a while and the files will not be compressed at first, so you will see higher than normal disk and CPU activity until they are compressed. Also, your Size on Disk is only 22 GB, the 63GB would be the uncompressed size. So if you don't have room for 22 GB on your drive, consider removing other data and/or programs to free up space, and of course, upgrading your storage.