How to reduce the shadow copy directory space.

What is the shadow copy?

The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a set of COM interfaces that implements a framework to allow volume backups to be performed while applications on a system continue to write to the volumes.

Is your C: drive full and you need to open up space? Follow the below instructions.

1: Open up command line.

2: type vssadmin list shadowstorage

This will list the list shadow copy storage associations.

 

3: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /For=C: /MaxSize=5GB

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