Recovering disk space

[Mike Doyle]

I'm thinking I have an offline foldering issue. My winnt
dir is showing its using 6.5 GB, but as I look through the
sub dirs, I see no more then 2 GB of folders and files.
Something is taking up over 3 GB of disk space and I can't
find it. I have searched for files over 1 MB, the math
doesn't add up. It appears to have started with offline
foldering.


Mike

 

[Carrie Garth \(MVP\)]

Hi Mike,

If the lost disk space can be attributed to "offline foldering", file attributes
(Hidden and System) and NTFS permissions (by default only Administrators have
permission to access the Offline Files folder - C:\WINNT\CSC) can prevent these types
of files from being included in your search. So before trying to locate the lost
disk space log in as a user in the Administrators group and configure Windows
Explorer to include these types of files. For more information see the following
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:

KB303079 - How to Locate and Correct Disk Space Problems on NTFS Volumes
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=303079

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Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 07:11 AM
: I'm thinking I have an offline foldering issue. My winnt
: dir is showing its using 6.5 GB, but as I look through the
: sub dirs, I see no more then 2 GB of folders and files.
: Something is taking up over 3 GB of disk space and I can't
: find it. I have searched for files over 1 MB, the math
: doesn't add up. It appears to have started with offline
: foldering.