the way i see IT

This info is for my future reference, but maybe it will help someone else too.

I’ve got an older Dell NAS box that, over the years, has picked up a few applications.  The C drive is just under 5GB, so needless to say it fills up quick.  I routinely have to go through the C partition and clean off various logs and updates.

I needed to see the size of each folder, but of course Windows doesn’t offer that seemingly no-brainer feature.  So I downloaded “Folder Size for Windows.”  It’s a great open-source piece of software that calculates folder sizes and displays it in Explorer in a new column called, you guessed it, “Folder Size.”

I was then able to quickly track down the source of the ballooning files - a file called ‘ReporterSvc.log’ in the folder  C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Reporting Agents\Win32.  It was well over 300 MB and I’m sure would have been bigger if it had any space to grow.  This server used to be a Symantec Antivirus Corporate server. That role has since been retired but the software was still running. 

I stopped the “Reporting Agents” service, then I moved the reportersvc.log file to another partition (in case I still needed it), then restarted the service.  I’m sure it will eventually grow again until I uninstall the software, but this was a quick fix to reclaim those much-needed bytes.