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  • Downloading software bigger than available disk space

    zaveri

    Member

    Updated: Oct 16, 2024
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    Yesterday i was downloading a mechanical design software from the net.

    But then a dialogue box appeared saying that the software required around 320 Mb , while i had only 207 Mb free on the hard disk. it asked whether to install anyway , to which i refused.

    now what would have happened if i had agreed ? would my PC have crashed ?
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Jul 22, 2012

    I'm assuming you're using Windows Operating System. Typically, when the application being downloaded or installed is larger than the available disk space, Windows throws an error informing about the limited space. But it offered to proceed anyway, in that case; the software installer would abort after being unable to extract the file to the disk. I doubt it'd cause your PC to crash.
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  • Sahithi Pallavi

    Member • Jul 22, 2012

    No Crash I think. As Bigk said just an error would display and then abnormal termination of the program.
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  • Anoop Kumar

    Member • Jul 22, 2012

    You file will not be downloaded and if you try to download file bigger than available space system will get stuck/hanged.
    Cleaning up temp file may create some space. try #-Link-Snipped-# small utility but still works .
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  • zaveri

    Member • Jul 22, 2012

    Thank you guys.
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  • Kedar Malwadkar

    Member • Aug 3, 2012

    Which software it was?
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  • zaveri

    Member • Aug 3, 2012

    Kedar Malwadkar
    Which software it was?
    ansys
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  • Mayank25

    Member • Aug 3, 2012

    Surely the system was not crashed !!!! but abnormal termination of program was held....
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