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ASW821's avatar
ASW821
Level 3
4 months ago

ASR24 Recovery Disk Problem

There is a very large folder in C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Temp

called symsrdtemp which takes up 3.23GB of disk space and can't be deleted in the normal way.

This folder appeared when I created a recovery disk after recently installing ASR24.

It can't be deleted by running Disk Clean-Up in admin mode.

I can probably remove it by taking control of the folder structure etc. but my point is that I shouldn't have to do that at all. It should have been cleanly removed by ASR itself after the disk creation.

I only noticed it by accident and I wonder how many other ASR users have a 3GB+ file sitting it their temp folders taking up unnecessary space.

Hopefully this message will be passed onto the developers.

2 Replies

  • akihiro1's avatar
    akihiro1
    Moderator
    4 months ago

    1. Boot from a Recovery Partition or from the SRD. You will be able to delete the folder symsrdtemp.

    2. Or launch Powershell.

    dism /get-mountedwiminfo

    If the mount info appears, run "dism /cleanup-wim". After rebooting, check if the folder symsrdtemp can be deleted.

    3. Or run regedit.exe.

    Check if the subfolder that has GUID exists under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WIMMount\Mounted Image.

    If it exists, delete the subfolder. After rebooting, check if the folder symsrdtemp can be deleted.

    • ASW821's avatar
      ASW821
      Level 3
      4 months ago

      Thanks for the reply. I have already deleted the folder by taking ownership control.

      I just wanted to make everyone aware of this as I only discovered the symsrdtemp folder by accident.

      As previously mentioned, there are probably a lot of ASR24 users who are unaware of this very large file sitting in their temp folders taking up unnecessary space.