Disappearing hard drive space

[Everettc45]

Lately I've been trying to free up space in my 1 TB hard drive. I was down to only 1 GB, so I got this program called TreeSize. It helped me locate an exremely large video file that I didn't need. It was an 18 minute clip of a video game, sitting at 35 GB. Anyway, deleted that and in the file explorer my drive was showing about 34 GB free. A minute later, after looking some more at TreeSize to see what else I could delete, I looked at the drive again and it was 2.8 GB free. I had to delete another 20 GB file, and now it shows 23 GB free. Not sure what is going on but there's no way that space immediately got filled by something. Any advice?

 

[R0GG]

Did you delete files in recycle bin? you might find the files you just deleted are still sitting there accounting for the free space not increasing. If your drive is the system drive you could try CCleaner (but use with caution while cleaning browsers and some other apps so you don't loose some of your settings)

 

[Everettc45]

Did you delete files sitting in recycle bin?

...yep. Good feedback, 10/10

 

[R0GG]

Great, so you were able to recover some free disk space?

 

[Everettc45]

Great, so you were able to recover some free disk space?

No, I was implying that emptying the Bin is a given, considering my lack of space issue.

 

[R0GG]

Sorry, I know it was trivial mention. If it's the system drive you're cleaning you can try CCleaner. There is also another tiny powerful files searching tool called Everything >> https://www.voidtools.com , which might help you locate quickly specific files or folders. If you're running out of space on system drive you can transfer some non system folder contents to a different drive directory (same name) and just link them together using a small program called Directory Linker (programs will think they are still reading of the original folder on C) >> http://reviewstash.com/viewtopic.php?id=1868

If you still suspecting there is some app writing regularly in the background on your hard drive, you can use windows resource monitor to watch disk writes and activity while loading selectively few apps at a time, while having either TreeSize or Foldersize open to see changes in folders size.