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| Thread ID: 144029 | 2017-06-11 06:22:00 | Locating what is taking up so much space on hard drive? | Misty (368) | Press F1 |
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| 1436429 | 2017-06-25 05:28:00 | Personally I use WindirStat - The portable version portableapps.com It does similar to Wiztree but also gives a graphical view, so you can instantly see what's using all the space including hidden files/folders. You select the drive ( if more than one) let it scan, depending on how much data may take several minutes. Had one person once wonder where all the space had gone. Lets just say their son was going to cop it when I discovered it was a hidden folder full of porn :eek: That was the look on the mothers face. Would have loved to be a fly on the wall when he got home :lol: Here's an example, this is my Computer here, there is a folder on the desktop that has 67GB in it - If I expanded it further it shows exactly what it is. 8111 I have d/l that app, Which part of it diid you use. There is a hell of a lot of it. Which Line did you use? Thankks. PJ |
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| 1436430 | 2017-06-25 07:39:00 | You run it, select your drive you want to scan ( if you have more then one) Once its run & finished, all you do is expand out the + beside the Users (for example) and it will show to the right the highest amounts. You can then expand out even further ( if there are sub folders) and the higher the usage the nearer the top it will be. There are of course some files that shouldn't be altered, Eg: windows system files. But other data like Pictures / Videos / music will all be listed and you can select to open the location. The example I gave, the kid had downloaded a whole lot of Porn, tried to hide it in a hidden folder on the C drive. which worked fine until this program was run and there was a folder with several hundred GB of movies, pictures etc. |
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