[SOLVED] feels like I lost more space than necessary

[Tac 25]

Hi, yesterday Genshin Impact game made a large update. Basically the game folder became 9 gb larger than before.

But it feels like I lost 20 gb of space instead of 9 gb.

is there a way to check the health of my SSD, if bad sectors appeared or something similar to that.

SSD is approximately 2 years old.

 

[Lafong]

But it feels like I lost 20 gb of space instead of 9 gb.

is there a way to check the health of my SSD, if bad sectors appeared or something similar to that.

"feels like"....can you give more details on why you feel that way?

Reported free space in File Explorer varies from day to day.

You can run Crystal Disk Info to evaluate your SSD health.

 

[hotaru.hino]

What does "feels like" even mean? Either the update added 9GB or it added 20GB.

If you need to clean up the drive and don't know where to start, use something like WinDirStat to get a visual representation on how data is consumed.

 

[Nighthawk117]

It may not be the game, I had a problem a little while ago where I would lose space day by day and I could never explain it. I lost a bit more than you though, more like 500GB. I downloaded Treesize and found it was SQL Server doing it, turns out there was a bug in it which Microsoft released a patch for. It may well not be your game, it may be something else and it's just a coincidence.
https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free?ca=1

 

[Tac 25]

@Nighthawk117

that's brutal losing 500GB of space on your drive. I hope you got that fixed already.

anyway, solved my problem simply by uninstalling the game, then reinstalling it fresh. There was a big event a month ago.. I assume something went wrong with the patching, or the files from the previous event either did not get removed, or a bloat happened somewhere.

 

[Nighthawk117]

@Nighthawk117

that's brutal losing 500GB of space on your drive. I hope you got that fixed already.

anyway, solved my problem simply by uninstalling the game, then reinstalling it fresh. There was a big event a month ago.. I assume something went wrong with the patching, or the files from the previous event either did not get removed, or a bloat happened somewhere.

Yeah I ran out of space on my OS drive so was forced into doing something about it, got it fixed a while ago now though. That's good you've found the cause