Free Space

[Guest]

I was just checking how much free space I have in my OS partition and found
that out of 5.85 GB i have only 1.92 GB free. Turns out I have 2.02GB in my
documents folder for my login but when i look at the individual files in the
folder they only add up to about 4.5 MB and I dont think anything is hidden.
What is up with this? Any help is greatly appreciated.....thanks

 

[Guest]

If you actually think that the "space remaining" reading is incorrect, try
this [it just may be correct though, as i see you haven't completely ruled
that out, so neither will i]
go to my computer, right click the drive, go to properties, go to tools tab,
click "check now" and put check in both boxes, and press ok. then a box will
come up saying you will need to restart your computer. press ok, and restart
your computer. The point of this... the scan has a "free space verification"
process, so if the "remaining space" number is infact inaccurate, this should
find the problem and fix it.

 

[Guest]

thanks for the info, i tried that and its still the same. I guess my big
question is where is the file at thats taking up all the space. I definitly
shouldnt be 2GB in my documents folder and like i said, the individual files
hardly add up to anything

 

[Guest]

Well, your operating system, and it's many files are going to take some space
too. So in account of your operating system, and the many files along with
it, plus your files, and your user account information, and any other user
accounts and files in them (including the admin account [hidden in XP home]),
there might just be that much space being used up.

-Tony

thanks for the info, i tried that and its still the same. I guess my big
question is where is the file at thats taking up all the space. I definitly
shouldnt be 2GB in my documents folder and like i said, the individual files
hardly add up to anything

If you actually think that the "space remaining" reading is incorrect, try
this [it just may be correct though, as i see you haven't completely ruled
that out, so neither will i]
go to my computer, right click the drive, go to properties, go to tools tab,
click "check now" and put check in both boxes, and press ok. then a box will
come up saying you will need to restart your computer. press ok, and restart
your computer. The point of this... the scan has a "free space verification"
process, so if the "remaining space" number is infact inaccurate, this should
find the problem and fix it.

 

[Ken Blake]

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I was just checking how much free space I have in my OS
partition and
found that out of 5.85 GB i have only 1.92 GB free. Turns out I
have
2.02GB in my documents folder for my login but when i look at
the
individual files in the folder they only add up to about 4.5 MB
and I
dont think anything is hidden. What is up with this? Any help
is
greatly appreciated.....thanks

It's probably both of the following:

1. You have the default set of not showing hidden files. In My
Computer, go to Tools, Folder Oprions, and on the View tab, make
sure "Show hidden files and folders" is checked.

2. Space is allocated on disk drives in units called clusters.
The size of the cluster varies with the file system, and
sometimes with the size of the partition.
If you're using NTFS, your cluster size is probably 4K. That
means that every file between 1 byte and 4096 bytes (size) uses
one cluster, 4096 bytes (size on disk). Every file between 4097
bytes and 8192 bytes uses two clusters, 8192 bytes, and so on. So
you're looking at the logical number of bytes in each file, not
the physical number of clusters it contains.

 

[Guest]

Thanks!! It was a hidden Cool Edit Pro file that was 1.87 GB that caused the
discrepancy. Thanks to all for the help--john

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Thanks!! It was a hidden Cool Edit Pro file that was 1.87 GB
that
caused the discrepancy. Thanks to all for the help--john

You're welcome. Glad to help.