i seem to have lost 35gig of disk space after deleting VMware

Diss · 20 Oct 2007 at 16:11

I set up a 35gig vista installation in vmware and have just deleted the folder but i haven't got my disk space back - have i lost it forever? or is there any way to get it back?

thanks

diss

Diss · 20 Oct 2007 at 16:20

also

is there any way to get the floder back - it didn't go into trash

and is there a program that will find the space and free it up?

thanks

diss

Diss · 20 Oct 2007 at 17:04

i deleted a folder that had a lot of 2 gig files in it - is that a 'yes'?

thanks

diss

Diss · 20 Oct 2007 at 19:46

a) its not in the trash bucket
b) i was stupid

Diss · 20 Oct 2007 at 21:26

riddlermarc said:
VMWare probably would have defaulted to making the virtual disk to a size (such as 35gb) and pre-allocating all the disk size in advance (but splitting it into 2gb size bits). You can always try searching your hard drive for all files >2Gb?

thx riddlermarc

it was the folder with all the 2 gig files that i deleted, but its worth a try - how do i do a search on file size tough?

diss

Diss · 21 Oct 2007 at 07:18

thanks fourstar

didn't fix the main problem ( as i'll explain in a sec) but it was very usefull as i found 29gig in a root/.trash directory

however i found a tool in Accessories called 'Disk Usage Analyser' and it was then easy to find a folder with 35 gig in it - as it happens i deleted the file in Thunar File Manager and it seems it stores its trash in:
.local/share/trash
as trash isn't hidden here i assume its why the original search didn't find it?

thanks to all for the help and suggestions

cheers

diss