How do you delete memory off a school account?

Question

At school, there is a login required for students to use the computer. While under my user name, I went to ABC.com and watched a episode of LOST. If any of you are familiar with it, you don't download anything to watch it, it's like Youtube when you just watch it. I may have downloaded the Flash plugin in order to watch it, but anyways. I can't use that computer because it tells me each time I try to log off that I have "exceeded storage space capacity." I've tried deleting my downloaded material but this is a school computer so I don't really know what to do. I can't ask a teacher because downloading anything is against school policy. Helppp.

Answer 1

my guess is that it already does delete the memory. it probably only gives you a 10 or 20 mb quota for temp files. which means you have no choice but to follow the rules

Answer 2

Not anything you can do... and it probably won't make any difference what computer you use at school. Unless you are certain it says that you have exceeded storage space capacity, I'd be more inclined to think that you've exceeded your quota of download for whatever your quota period is. Don't forget, download isn't just downloading files; it's also bringing any file to your computer, such as loading up Yahoo or Google pages or watching videos on Youtube - and watching Lost would use up a heck of a lot!!



School computers are run as a network - this means that the computer you are using is only letting you out to the internet through other computers elsewhere in the school. Although the video file is probably on the computer hard drive that you were using, how many mb you used to watch it is recorded against your name on one of those other computers. Something else recorded is where you have been while logged in, so if they decide to check what you've been up to, they'll know you watched Lost.



Best solution? Don't break the rules!

Answer 3

Sounds like you're in a pickle, serves you right. Im not sure where on the hard drive (or network drive) that you files are saved to. Could be some temp directory somewhere that you do not have access to. That episode of lost is probably cached on the drive somewhere...you better come up with a good excuse, good luck.

Answer 4

Epitman... ask a another teacher that you trust how to delete the storage space. Then DON'T ever break school policy again! You could get suspended. Don't you know?!

Answer 5

You can't delete anything off school computers, sorry, see what they've done is they've put a code lock on it, only they can delete history, eg, even if you delete photos, they can still find them and look at them, because they're not really deleted, the same goes with other things too, sorry...

Answer 6

just dont use that computer .go to a different one. if other people use that computer like from other classes go to your teacher and say my computer wont work,but say it was like that when you got on it .