Thread: Where did all my C drive space go?

Try doing a search on large files over C: That may uncover something. Just search for file size.

Originally Posted by Takeovers

Try doing a search on large files over C: That may uncover something. Just search for file size.

Been there, done that. The largest thing on my C is 16.3 Gigs....and that's the OS.
There is nothing else that I can see that would account for this lack of disc space. I should have about 40% of the 120 Gigs still free, but now I'm down to 4.3 Gigs...and counting.

One more idea. Run a drive test. Maybe all the disappeared space is blocked defective blocks? Which would mean your drive is dying fast. If you can, do a drive copy, test and replace the disk if found faulty.

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

and clean up your Temp directory in your Local Settings, it's probably full of shit

That's a known place where I can usually reclaim a GByte or two or (even three if I've long forgotten to clean it).

WinDirStat just showed me that Local Settings was 12 GByte and the culprit was not the Temp folder but an application folder.
I installed and used MP3SkypeRecorder before making a Skype phone call to authorities in my homeland half a year ago and it seems the program did not stop recording when the Skype call ended so the recording occupied 11++ GBytes

Good useful program that WinDirStat

WinDirStat is indeed nice, but you need to know how to use it and understand what it does. Don't think the OP can understand any of it.

Good one about Skype, had something like this with DropBox in the local settings dir, the silly shit was downloading itself upgrades like 200 times and not deleting its crap, that was about 500MB worth of useleless shit

I clean my Temp dir at least once a week, and it's always 100MB or 200MB worth of shit

although, Chrome cache and FireFox cache is collecting a lot of crap in Local Settings or their own app dir

Originally Posted by koman

maybe I should just trash the Operating System.....that's fix the foker......

well maybe you should, because if you can't make any of it in this thread, as it seems, it will be pointless to point you in the right direction if you can't make the difference between flushing your Temp dir and your DNS cache

That's why Apple invented the iPad

You're fucked if Buttplug is offering you advice.

Originally Posted by Auroria

Wipe your computer and transfer a few of the common files you use onto it, keeping it mainly empty.

Not so fast. He'll want to keep his executable files on his C: drive. And for that matter, he should keep his file structure exactly the same when empty as existing apps require default directories (like downloads via torrent, EH?)

Originally Posted by koman

Now it's telling me that my C drive is full and I can't even download an episode of a crappy Zombie TV .series

Direct your torrents to download onto your D: drive

Originally Posted by Plan B

Originally Posted by koman

Now it's telling me that my C drive is full and I can't even download an episode of a crappy Zombie TV .series

Direct your torrents to download onto your D: drive

They actually get sent to an external HD and stored there for ever...so they are not taking up any space on the computer at all.... I just delete them from the computer once the transfer is completed, including the history.

4.28 Gigs this morning....and holding steady...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You're fucked if Buttplug is offering you advice.

I try to be selective when taking advise, which is the likely reason my computer is still running at all.....

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

if you can't make the difference between flushing your Temp dir and your DNS cache

Why do you think I don't know the difference......when I've stated several times that I've done both? Can you please confirm that you're not from an Indian call center....

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

for people like you only one solution, buy a new PC

I sort of figured that out all by myself some time back.....but I like the challenge of trying to fix things first. It's not completely broken yet, so I'm still at it......

Originally Posted by koman

The largest thing on my C is 16.3 Gigs....and that's the OS.

So what are the sizes of all other directories (folders) in the root of your C drive?
It should be easy peasy to add the sizes together to see if they match what is reported to be occupied (drive size - 16.3).
It should also be easy peasy to see which folder is abnormally big.

This is how space occupancy is presented by WinDirStat which I assume you didn't bother to install

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by koman

The largest thing on my C is 16.3 Gigs....and that's the OS.

So what are the sizes of all other directories (folders) in the root of your C drive?
It should be easy peasy to add the sizes together to see if they match what is reported to be occupied (drive size - 16.3).
It should also be easy peasy to see which folder is abnormally big.

It's all in post number 1. and repeated several times in subsequent posts.
There are no abnormally big folders in the C drive....that's the mystery I've been trying to solve.

...and yes I did download WinDerStat, but all it's done is confirmed what I already knew.

Anyhow, I figured out how to direct all my Movie and TV series downloads into drive E.....which has 800 Gigs of storage, so that's one problem taken care of.

No Indian call centers involved so far...

Originally Posted by koman

It's all in post number 1. and repeated several times in subsequent posts.

Partial info, a bit here and a bit there..

Now take a look at my screenshot of WinDirStat, you can see on the first line for C: that I have used 88.8GByte of the disk which is the same as the accumulated space of all directories below.
What value do you get there?
It should be the drive size minus what you currently have reported as free.

upgrade to Windows 10, you can still do it for free this way

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/acce...FXNhiu3o52rA)(