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Currently I am having the issue where the backups folder under SARRemediation seems to be completely filling up my C drive. I've tried the old solution from 5-6 years ago of turning off SARRemediation and then using disk cleanup and clearing the restore points to try to clear it out then turning it back on. This has done nothing for me this time and the main backup file itself is 134GBs so its too large to just let me outright delete it.
Moved from: Sysinternals
The SARRemediation folder is usually found on a Dell system, do you have a Dell PC?
If so, that folder is created by the Dell Support Assist backup functionality, if you disable the backups function in Dell Support Assist, then restart your PC, you should be able to manually delete the contents of that folder.
I was wrong about the files being gone I just forgot to start treesize in administrator mode. Even with it off the files are still there also I have it set at 5% max usage so even so it should at most be using 11Gbs. I can't delete them either as the pc says my account doesn't have permission to delete it it says only system has access. Also I'm on an Alienware Aurora 11 pc so yes its a dell.
Open Dell Support Assist, then disable the System Repair function, restart your PC, then run Disk Cleanup.
If that does not resolve the problem, are you able to manually delete the backup files from this folder:
C:\ProgramData\Dell\SARemediation\Snapshots\Backup
That didn't work the files are still there even with system repair off the restart and disk cleanup. Unfortunately the files are locked to just the system being able to change/interact so it won't let me delete them. I can't even see the backup folder itself I can only see it in treesize. Even with it being set up to show hidden items the farthest I can see in to the folders is the SARRemediation folder after that there is no snapshot folder.
