Restore Points Being Deleted

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Something is deleting all of my restore points,  and I cannot track down the culprit.

Any suggestions with respect to where to look will be appreciated.

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By default, Windows allocated 3% to 5% of your hard drive space for restore points, up to a maximum of 10 GB. If you want to increase the number of restore points, you need to allocate more space for them.

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System Protection, Disk Space Usage, Max Usage is set at 100% (448.67 GB).

Even the most recent restore point is removed leaving me with no restore points and Current Usage, naturally, shows zero GB.

Thank you for the reply.

 

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Also see:
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/restore-points-being-deleted-automatically/

but this is an experience on Windows 10.

Windows 10 22H2 desktops & laptops on Dell, HP, ASUS; No servers, no domain.

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Long shot but any chance you have saved files in your main users file directory?

I know that restore points backup that folder and, if files in that folder exceed the usage allotment, it will automatically delete previous restore points first and not be able to create new ones due to size limit.

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Thank you for the reply,  but I do not know what (or where) my “main users file directory” is.

 

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For example.  C:\Users\ and then whatever your admin or account name is.

Now I think it through, same thing probably happens whenever the restore point size would exceed max usage though.  So it was probably a dumb idea given your Max Usage set to 100% but it is the only thing I could think of.

 

 

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C:\Users\Me\Properties\General tab shows Size 4.18 GB and Size on disk 4.23 GB.

Hey,  but you taught me something,  thank you.

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Do you have any third-party software that deletes restore points?

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Maybe this Microsoft link below on this problem will help. It lists the event error IDs to help you track it down as well as know issues that can cause this.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/system-restore-points-are-deleted-after-you-restart-your-windows-7-based-computer-14e74133-2941-1d2a-5c08-315510e5f986

HTH, Dana:))

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