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Date/Time: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:02:20 +0000
Post From: Sierra folder is Continually increasing in size
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| Calculus - Posts: 139 |
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John, it sure is Sierra taking up the space because when I do my monthly backup of Sierra data, I manually go through every market I follow to download the data, ie go through my Quote Page entries one by one. So if I haven't looked at a chart of say IBM all month, when I click on IBM to load it into a chart, you can see all the missing data populate the chart (daily and intraday data). If I start the process above with say 15GB of spare hard drive space, by the time I've checked around 100-200 symbols, the HD space will be under 5GB. So I lose 10GB when there's zero chance Sierra needs 10GB for 1 months of data covering 100-200 symbols. Then I reboot, and so I get ALL my hard drive space back. That's how I know it's Sierra using up what I call 'virtual space'. However, it's not a problem at all because the reboot gets that hard drive space back. NOTE: This only happens when I have to download missing data over more than a few symbols. When I just use Sierra normally (no big data downloads) it hardly uses any HD space. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2026-07-18 16:18:59
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