What's occupying my SSD drive?

Mel_P

Mel_P

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I have a Win 7 Home Premium OS SSD drive of 119 GB capacity.

Windows says it occupies 37GB
Hib file and Page file occupy 7GB between them
ITunes is 2.2GB
Other hidden / non-hidden files don't seem that large.

So I can identify say 50GB of files. So I should have 60GB + free.

BUT I only have 23 GB free. Disc cleanup shows only 980MB if I clean up everything.

What / where are the files I cannot find? Any ideas please?

Thanks
 
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No sign of any baddies with MSE and various on-line virus checkers.

SSD does show 57% fragmented but not sure what that means for an SSD?
 
I just checked mine and there is 35GB unaccounted for as well... :p

Pretty much the same amount as you!

However my drive is a 256GB so it is slightly less of a **** take.
 
Just installed "folder size". Says Windows occupies 79GB with a "Temp" folder of 42GB !!!

That's the difference accounted for - 79-42 = 37GB. BUT why is this temp file so big. Nothing this big in disk cleanup?
 
Mine is only 163MB - Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Go deeper and find which folder within the temp folder most of it is in.
 
Looking at it - it is huge temporary folder with some sub folders which are very small - like a balloon full of nothing but occupying space???
 
You have to go inside it once before you can go to properties and see the size.

Can you show us a screenshot of treesize, within the temp folder?
 
I have a jpg from a "snip" but as this is on my HP microserver system I have no means of uploading the jpg to a web page as I have no applications other than basic windows on the system.

Will do this tomorrow or ASAP - from google other people also have this problem.

BUT - It shows a temp folder of size 41.4 GB AND on closer inspection 335 cab files - each one is 0.12GB - 0.3% of folder - so these are the 40GB worth of files!

So what do I do with these?

Mel
 
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A quick google suggests that they are leftovers from Windows updates and can be safely removed. :)

Give it a search and see if you concur.
 
Had this a while ago on my SSD and it turned out that it was to do with Virtual memory settings. I just set it manually in control panel and that seems to have sorted it.
 
f3rr3t said:
Had this a while ago on my SSD and it turned out that it was to do with Virtual memory settings. I just set it manually in control panel and that seems to have sorted it.
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Ok - I had a spare SSD so I installed this as a cache disc for windows and a scratch disc for Photoshop

Windows virtual memory
C drive - 2-3 GB
E (cache) - 20-30GB

Should I change it to system managed?
Should I nor have the virtual memory on a separate SSD?

any ideas? Mel
 
you have a 20-30gb swap on your E: drive?

on my 16gb ram system, ive turned that sucker down to a single 2-4gb on my c: ssd with no problem (it's never grown over 2gb)
 
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