Creating a self overwriting partition/folder.

[bubblez]

How would one make a partition or folder of some sort that overwrites old files after it fills? For example, I am recording game play and the folder/partition reaches its capacity. Normally it would say no available disk space, instead i would like it to delete the oldest file and keep recording. Thanks in advance!

 

[tomatthe]

I'm not aware of a way to do this automatically when a drive gets full.

You could have a cleanup run that removed the oldest files once a day or so, but that's about as close to what you are asking that I can think of.

There are lots of ways to do that, but a quick google search pulled up this link.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51054/batch-file-to-delete-files-older-than-n-days

If you get that setup the way you want it, just add it to task scheduler at the intervals you want it to run and that should do it.

 

[MajinCry]

Just delete the files when you no longer need them. May take longer than usual, but will save you a head-ache if you forget to upload a video to youtube and the drive wipes the video file off.

 

[bubblez]

Thanks for the reply. I never thought of using batch scripts, those things are infinitely handy. Also, i just used fraps as an example. If i can get the thing working it will probably be for my download folder, its gets cluttered fast.

 

[bubblez]

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