Hello, for a client I have to maintain a XE3 product, I've put this in a VM but I'de like to reduice the disk usage. There's no more update for XE3, so can I remove those folders without disturbing Delphi ?

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Hello, for a client I have to maintain a XE3 product, I've put this in a VM but I'de like to reduice the disk usage. There's no more update for XE3, so can I remove those folders without disturbing Delphi ?

 %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Rad_Studio_XE3_Downloads folder
C:\ProgramData\
{C0B0DBF1-FDC4-4F45-9641-6FE986DD2F55}  (help)
{D58335DC-C8DE-44AB-87E6-A01F75AE0930}  (boost)
{95E74D47-F7E3-45F0-98A6-C4EB87FC1E6A}  (main installer)

Any other things to remove ?

Regards

Comments

  1. Jeroen Wiert PluimersJanuary 18, 2015 at 5:35 AM

    See the comments by user IL at http://wiert.me/2014/11/18/delphi-research-list-txmldocument-binding-for-omnixml-via-stack-overflow what patterns to keep/delete. (edit: removed /nor introduced by Android autocorrect).

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  2. Paul TOTHJanuary 18, 2015 at 5:40 AM

    Error 404 - Not Found :/
      ok, remove /nor

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  3. Joe C. HechtJanuary 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM

    Soapbox: XE's weight is an unnecessary total waste, with some versions weighing 4 times the OS. Embaradero should publish a diet, if not the utility to do the job. Soon, I will have to say "Sorry Embaradero, I don't have any space left to buy your latest version, you ate it all". TJoe(300gb clean RadVM)

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  4. Jeroen Wiert PluimersJanuary 19, 2015 at 6:42 PM

    Joe Hecht actually: that's what I did with XE7. No Space on my SSD for it any more.

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  5. Joe C. HechtJanuary 19, 2015 at 6:51 PM

    Jeroen Wiert Pluimers you may be very much wiser than.myself, and and come away with more drive space, money, and common sense than I may ever have! I salute your decision.

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  6. Lars FosdalJanuary 20, 2015 at 1:32 AM

    Jeroen Wiert Pluimers - Sorry for drifting off topic, but I was intrigued with the XML part of the discussion.  Is there a fast and robust SAX parser for Delphi?

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  7. Jeroen Wiert PluimersJanuary 20, 2015 at 5:32 AM

    Lars Fosdal I have no idea. When doing XML, I usually pick .NET as it is has most of what I need built-in or a good open source library for it. Though it has no SAX reader built-in, the XmlReader is good and lightweight. And there is a good open source SAX reader available.

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  8. Kerry SandersFebruary 5, 2015 at 5:20 AM

    Since it is in a VM, could you just make a copy of the VM file, try the changes and if it doesn't work, you are not out anything since you have the backup. Other than that, I would be hesitant to remove the folders not knowing exactly what might happen.

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  9. Kerry SandersFebruary 5, 2015 at 5:22 AM

    As for VMs... that's what we do at the company where I work. The base VM that was created for XE7 is 50 GB. One of our guys went through, cleaned out things that were left by Delphi post-install and it reduced the space usage considerably... like 20 GB.

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  10. Paul TOTHFebruary 5, 2015 at 5:40 AM

    Yes, I've removed everything and add Compression on the "Source" directory :)

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