What's taking up the space?

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'Captain' Kirk DeHaan

I just repartitioned my disk with PM. All is fine except I cannot
find what is eating up about 7 Gb of disk space. There is 19 Gb in
the partition with 5 Gb free. Of the 14 Gb used I can only account
for about 8 Gb. The 8 Gb was derived from using the properties query
on each folder and getting the total space used.

Earlier I had a problem I was debugging and had to perform a restore.
After the restore my restore points all disappeared. I screwed up
somewhere I think. Anyway...did restore possible leave a bunch of
files around that I could delete to recover space? Where are they
kept?

The virtual memory is set to 348 Mb so that isn't the issue.

Any pointers to a solution?



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Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the
wonderful person 'Captain' Kirk DeHaan said:
I just repartitioned my disk with PM. All is fine except I cannot
find what is eating up about 7 Gb of disk space. There is 19 Gb in
the partition with 5 Gb free. Of the 14 Gb used I can only account
for about 8 Gb. The 8 Gb was derived from using the properties query
on each folder and getting the total space used.

Earlier I had a problem I was debugging and had to perform a restore.
After the restore my restore points all disappeared. I screwed up
somewhere I think. Anyway...did restore possible leave a bunch of
files around that I could delete to recover space? Where are they
kept?

The virtual memory is set to 348 Mb so that isn't the issue.

Any pointers to a solution?
Click to expand...

Turn 'show hidden files' and 'show system files' on, in explorer, before
even bothering to check space. You should then see (nearly) everything
... unless you are using Norton's dreaded protected recycle bin, in which
case you may still have a bunch of stuff AWOL.
 
Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the
wonderful person 'Captain' Kirk DeHaan <[email protected]>
said
What happened was my restore points got trashed but there was still 5+
Gb of restore data for those now non-existent restore points.
Shutting down restore cleared out the 5 GB of data. Turned it back on
and all is fine.

Guess this shows the need to clean out unneeded restore points.
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5GB is way too much anyway - no way it'll ever restore back that far
without a problem. Most people find 500MB is plenty .. 1GB if you're an
optimist (to restore back to date X, all the restore points between then
and now have to work right).
 
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