Try restoring the stuff to the appdata folder. That's a shared resource folder used by a lot of programs for things they need to function correctly. Unless you are absolutely certain of what you're removing, that folder is best left alone.
That's one of the folder you have to leave as it is, some applications stores your preferences there. Is it usually safe to delete the stuff inside it, when you uninstall the specific application the refer to. A solution would be to completely remove your Maya folder inside AppData, and start the software, it should…
thanks for the suggestions. I endeded up disabling system restore, which freed up 32GB. also tried to clear some stuff out of appdata folder. however.... i dont know why but now suddenly like half my maya scenes (.ma files)wont open. ;( im guessing it's some 2015 bug. im so mad. anyone here know of this strange issue? or…
If I may suggest you a better way to evaluate the space occupied in your drive, there is a software called TreeSizeFree, available in portable version too, that can display in a more comprehensible way what's occupying your disk space. http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/ Anyway, by looking at the diagram you can…
Everytime after I use maya, my C drive on Windows 8.1 gradually gets bigger and bigger. At least I suspect it is caused by me using maya. I've deleted the crash save files in the appdata folder whenever maya crashes, so it's not that. Is there some extra data being saved somewhere that I don't know about? I started out…