Posted: 4/17/2009 7:30:54 AM EDT
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Sometime in the past couple weeks, I seem to have mysteriously lost 9GB of free space on my hard drive. Actually I've lost 10GB, but I can account for 1GB with a bunch of pictures I downloaded from my camera.
Is there any way to figure out what happened here? |
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The best tool I've found for tracking down what is using up drive space is WinDirStat. It uses an interactive treemap view to visually sort out your files and directories. |
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Automatic update is on.
Definitely wasn't porn. I said in the past few weeks, but by that I just meant some time in the past few weeks. It actually happened in a potentially very short time period, perhaps even one day. At one point I knew the free space was around 30GB. Without ever making a serious download of any kind, I noticed a brief time later it was around 20GB. Disk cleanup looks like it will clean up around that much space, but only if I use the "compress files" option. |