Hi everyone,

In my separate drive where I save my BB songs, Rb tracks and so forth, I have some folders that I haven't created. at least not intentionally.

There are no names, just a long string of letters and numbers. When I click to see what they are some are empty and the rest are applications called " MpMiniSigStub "

Can someone tell me what these files are for, are they necessary for something to operate properly and if not can I delete them.

Space is of prime importance and I don't want a lot of unnecessary folders clogging up my drive.

Many thanks

Hi yjoh,

I put the above file name into Google and was led to the below information at Microsoft Security Essentials knowledge base.

MSE knowledge base answer

Regards,
Noel

Folders take up so little file space it's ridiculous.

My memory says less than 2 bytes.

If you have tens of thousands of them, well that's a problem.

On the contrary my new digital camera runs 20MB per shot, and if I'm using HDR then I get 3 shots, or maybe 5. 100 mb for one shot? When a 100 mb hard drive first came out people were in AWE. Now if you don't have a 1TB drive somewhere you are looked at like some pioneer with a horse. If you are running XP, less than 1GB of memory and a 300 mb hard drive on one of those monitors that weighs 30 pounds and has 24 inches sticking out the back, and a dial up modem the word is Luddite.

LOL! Of course there are now Luddites, neo-luddites, avant garde luddites, and the worst maybe be republican-reform-neo-paranoid-Luddites. Scary!!!

The best software to examine a system from the viewpoint of disk usage comes with unix where df and du have been used since cave man times to list the files on a system in order of biggest to smallest. Very cool.

Hi Noel,

Thanks for the link. I've put them in the recycle bin for now but haven't deleted them.
At least they aren't important to BB. I like to know why folders are there when I haven't put them there. I'm a need to know person and like things organised. Many thanks again.

Hi John,

I'm from the Atari STE days. I remember paying around $300 for an extra 3 meg of ram.
Took my total to a huge 4 meg!It was fantastic.

I was still using it with my Notator SL until 6 years ago when the programme started to crash out on me. I'm still getting used to these massive amount of room that audio and video files take up. I seem to be needing more and more storage space. it's been quite a learning curve. New computer system,software and internet. I think I'm just above luddite at the moment but still have a soft spot for the old Atari. It sure was easy to use!

Keep making music guys and thanks for the support!

Ha, I have an 8" ss sd diskette here. 128k I think. I ran an aged A/R I bought and rewrote in Business Basic to run a 200 person billing for a Nursing Home. I ended up with 20 of them. (Homes) So I had 2 floppy drives, backup on one. Sets of 5 per home times 20, filed, indexed, man what a chore.

Keep pluggin'.

Good heavens! I didn't know 8" disks existed.

Definately do not miss those floppy disks! What a pain. I have boxes of the things stored along with the Ataris and all the software I bought to go with it.

I keep everything. There's gear spread over 3 rooms, under the bed and in hubby's shed. Never know when it might come in handy or some museum wants it. LOL

Music and gear for life!