Ghost Data Filling Hard Drive?

[JaredFrost95]

I tried rendering a video with camtasia... It failed at the end because I seemed to have ran out of space on my main drive. After deleting the remnants of the video, I noticed there was still something taking up space that wasn't their before. I brushed it off as bad memory and started rendering again, and pointed it to another drive with plenty of space. Again, it failed at the end and it looked like my main drive, the one I wasn't even rendering to, was filled up even more than before. Camtasia created a folder with some files in the right place so it seems it was going to be on the right drive. I have no idea what is taking up room... Is there a way to sort files by size?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there JaredFrost95,

I guess you can use some tool that can analyze disk space. This should show you what is eating up your free space.
Check this tutorial out: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/
There is such disk analyzing tool in there as well as different approaches on how to free up some HDD space.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[JaredFrost95]

Won't following that tutorial compress my files? I don't want to do that... Also, I went to sleep last night with about 1gb free. I wake up, boot up and now I have about 8gb free... I'm confused. My ssd is healthy.

 

[JaredFrost95]

I have sourced the problem. The "ghost data" was temp files filling up in my temp folder. If you want to change where camtasia puts it's temp files, go to tools, options, and change to path at the bottom for "temporary storage folder".