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UserDataSnapshotRetentionLimit and Endless growing Edge Profile
Since V86 its possible to Rollback the version of Edge. For this rollback in a userprofile snapshot ist saved under AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Snapshots.
Unfortunatly endless growing.
I thought maybe UserDataSnapshotRetentionLimit would limit the grow and delete not any more neccessary snaphsots. unfortunatly not.
How can i prevent snapshots to eat up all my available space and slow down login for roaming profiles on terminalserver.
Greetings
Joachim
9 Replies
- Kelly_Y
Microsoft
Joachim_T Hello! Just to confirm, have you configured the UserDataSnapshotRetentionLimit policy correctly?
According to the documentation, if you set this policy, old snapshots are deleted as needed to respect the limit you set. If you set this policy to 0, no snapshots are taken.
Thanks!
-Kelly
Yes.
First i didnt set the policy because documentation says if not configured limit is 3. Good enough for me. But now i have seen the snapshots never where deleted on all of my thousands of userprofiles. Quite a amount of wasted space, money and time on logons in my company. All versions since V85 are still there as snapshot as you can see in the png in the first message.
And it doesnt matter if its a local Win 10 workstation or a romaning Terminalserver Profile. Same behavior everywhere.
After i found out the default doesnt work i set it to 2. Once again no result at all. All snapshots stayed as before.
Policy doesnt work as documented.- Kelly_Y
Joachim_T Hello! Have you checked edge://policy/ to see if there are any errors?
I took a quick look and do not see any reported issues with that specific policy. If you are able to send a screenshot of how the policy is enabled I can check with the team.
Another option is to reach out to Support. https://microsoftedgesupport.microsoft.com/hc/en-us They will be able to gather logs and help investigate your specific case. Thanks!
-Kelly
