ran out of space

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Hey, I just ran out of space on my hard drive and I'm guessing that it's because of Kazaa. I've been downloading a lot of videos and I was wondering what happens to the files that I abort and never finish. Do the half-loaded (and completely useless) files take up any space? Could this be the problem?

There are temporary files that Kazaa stores in your download directory (/Program Files/Kazaa/My Shared Folder/ is default) of unfinished downloads.

An example: download1050719247363802515.dat

If you're not waiting on anything particularly special to download - delete the files.

Thanks a lot --that helped. For some reason when I try to delete certain completed files it says that access is denied and to make sure that the file is not in use and that the disk is not full or write-protected. Any way to get past this?

As Bitwiz hints to, sometimes the files attributes are read-only or archived.

Two things to do:

1) First, close Kazaa - then try to delete the file. If that doesn't work...
2) Right click the file in Windows Explorer (or where ever you view your files outside of Kazaa) and choose 'Properties'. Uncheck any attributes that are currently selected.

But to do this in windows....certain switches are on to allow "Seeing" of Hidden files. (default is Off and you cannot see) I'm and old "Dos" guy, I do most Maint In dos.