.dat files filling the hard drive [Closed]
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 6:38 pm
Hi there,
We currently have around 25 users of MainType that all experienced the same issue. Their local hard drives were filling with thousands of .dat files in the fonts folder and the only way we were able to stop it was to un-install MainType.
The way we had it set up was, all of the fonts were stored in a share on the server and the software was set up to pull them from there. This was great as it allowed us to only have to install new fonts in one location instead of 25. It worked really well for a little while, but then users were getting messages that there were no resources available, and finding their hard drives full.
We used Windirstat and found 84,000+ .dat files in the font folder taking up 164 GB of space. After manually deleting them, they would just start regenerating. We contacted High-Logic support and they gave us a patch, but it didn't solve the issue. The only thing we could do was to remove MainType completely.
Has anyone else experienced this, or have any idea what would be causing this?
If more info is needed, please let me know.
We currently have around 25 users of MainType that all experienced the same issue. Their local hard drives were filling with thousands of .dat files in the fonts folder and the only way we were able to stop it was to un-install MainType.
The way we had it set up was, all of the fonts were stored in a share on the server and the software was set up to pull them from there. This was great as it allowed us to only have to install new fonts in one location instead of 25. It worked really well for a little while, but then users were getting messages that there were no resources available, and finding their hard drives full.
We used Windirstat and found 84,000+ .dat files in the font folder taking up 164 GB of space. After manually deleting them, they would just start regenerating. We contacted High-Logic support and they gave us a patch, but it didn't solve the issue. The only thing we could do was to remove MainType completely.
Has anyone else experienced this, or have any idea what would be causing this?
If more info is needed, please let me know.