- Dec 7, 2012
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First, let me apologize if this has been addressed here already, but I just discovered this 'out of space' error and, in truth, it is freaking me out because what I THOUGHT I knew (or understood) is totally incorrect - or at least totally evading me now.
I have a two year old Crucial 256 GB SSD in my primary Windows 10 Pro PC that is currently 'warning' me that I have only about 24 GB of 'open space' available. OK, so I started examining this and 'dumping' what seemed to be 'simple trash'. But if I try to 'tally up' the space consumed by all the files and folders (everything is purportedly 'unhidden' in the view), I can account for only roughly 72 GB of 'used space', which simply boggles me...
I've performed a 'disk cleanup' (and I'll say that this only "as I understand it") which removed all of Windows' temporary installation files and emptied the recycle bin, deleted the contents of my user account %temp% folder, and all the innumerable 'ancillary' pieces of junk that accumulate in any Windows PC, but I simply cannot account for what appears to be well over 120 GB of disk space. So WTF..? In researching this, I found a place that said to download and install WinDirStat, but I'll admit I don't exactly know what I'm supposed to see here, nor what it actually indicates, but it is a concern that I can't account for such a huge piece of my boot disk's storage space. Can someone 'enlighten' me as to why this is happening and how I might possibly 'fix' this? Alternatively, I'm about to use 'Microsoft Synctoy' to 'bit-copy' the whole darned disk to one of my currently installed 1 or 2 TB hard disks (that I use for 'additional data storage') and blow this beast away and re-install EVERYTHING from scratch... and maybe in the process consider going BACK to Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) which seemed to have a lot less of crap like this happening in it.
I have a two year old Crucial 256 GB SSD in my primary Windows 10 Pro PC that is currently 'warning' me that I have only about 24 GB of 'open space' available. OK, so I started examining this and 'dumping' what seemed to be 'simple trash'. But if I try to 'tally up' the space consumed by all the files and folders (everything is purportedly 'unhidden' in the view), I can account for only roughly 72 GB of 'used space', which simply boggles me...
I've performed a 'disk cleanup' (and I'll say that this only "as I understand it") which removed all of Windows' temporary installation files and emptied the recycle bin, deleted the contents of my user account %temp% folder, and all the innumerable 'ancillary' pieces of junk that accumulate in any Windows PC, but I simply cannot account for what appears to be well over 120 GB of disk space. So WTF..? In researching this, I found a place that said to download and install WinDirStat, but I'll admit I don't exactly know what I'm supposed to see here, nor what it actually indicates, but it is a concern that I can't account for such a huge piece of my boot disk's storage space. Can someone 'enlighten' me as to why this is happening and how I might possibly 'fix' this? Alternatively, I'm about to use 'Microsoft Synctoy' to 'bit-copy' the whole darned disk to one of my currently installed 1 or 2 TB hard disks (that I use for 'additional data storage') and blow this beast away and re-install EVERYTHING from scratch... and maybe in the process consider going BACK to Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) which seemed to have a lot less of crap like this happening in it.
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