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c;\Extend\RmMetadata\Txflog\Tops file too large

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Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:06 PM

I have a file on my windows Server 2008 R2 in my OS partition, which has grown to 2.3 GB I am dealing with disk space issues because of that (and a few other large files that I can delete). Does anyone know of a way I can reduce the size of this file or delete it.

It is reported by the system as 2309 MB "size on Disk" and "size" of 0.00 MB that I find confusing. (Storage report looking for Large files)

Many Thanks

Steve Weatherbee

Cumberland Public Libraries

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Friday, September 19, 2014 9:28 AM âś…Answered

Hi,

You can work around this problem by resetting the RM (resource manager).  This will blow away all the $Rm data and re-create everything from scratch, after which $Tops will be negligable. 

  1. Before resetting the RM make sure there are no transactions in progress, and if there are its best to just wait for them to complete. To check type "fsutil resource info c:\.  The output of the field 'Running Transactions' will show non-zero if there are transactions in progress.
  2. To reset the RM type "fsutil resource setautoreset true" and then reboot.   

For more detailed information, please refer to the thread below:

How to delete oversized TOPS file?
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/56dc454e-268b-4ce0-8628-699a6befe457/how-to-delete-oversized-tops-file?forum=windowstransactionsprogramming

Best Regards,

Mandy 

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Friday, September 19, 2014 12:04 PM

Thanks Mandy.

I tried this solution prior to posting the thread. It appeared I originally had the wrong context. Your was correct with the addition of (c:\ on to the second command.

Many Thanks

S