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# Spotify Update Available – Download It Now To Save Your Hard Drive
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/spotify-update-available-download-it-now-to-save-your-hard-drive/
- Published: 2016-11-14T12:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-14T12:20:00.000Z
- Description: For weeks now, Spotify users have fallen prey to a major bug in its desktop application across multiple platforms that left 10-700 gigabytes and more of junk data every hour. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/11/spotify-update-available-download-it-now-to-save-your-hard-drive.ht
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, Streaming, Adam Bly, Apple Inc., Computer data storage, Hard disk drive, Rdio, Solid-state drive, Spotify, Streaming media, USB, USB 3.0, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:13

[![Spotify new](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8afa980970b-150wi "Spotify new")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8afa980970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)For weeks now, **Spotify** users have **fallen prey to a major bug** in its desktop application across multiple platforms that left **10-700 gigabytes and more of junk data every hour** on the unsuspecting user's hard drive. Now a promised fix has been released.

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[![Spotify-Logo](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d239789a970c-350wi "Spotify-Logo")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b8d239789a970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

Spotify has released desktop app version **10.42.151,** which the music streamer says fixes a major bug that was leaving many gigabytes of junk data on unsuspecting users' hard drives.

Depending on your settings, you may need to download it manually. Go to Help / About Spotify to download the fix.Read the full [story on the bug here](https://www.hypebot.com/spotify-is-dumping-huge-amounts-of-junk-data-on-your-hard-drive-fixed-promised/).

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