Weird Win10 Storage Allocation

Soldato
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I have an odd issue.

My system is broken up into drives for different duties; C: for System, D: For Documents, E: Media, F: Games, G: Archive. I backup each drive individually. So because of this, all my document libraries are on D:, with only 666Mb of data in my C:\Users\MyUsername Folder. I changed the location of all my libraries (documents, pictures, music etc) to the D: drive via the properties. There's about 60Gb of data on D:\Users\MyUsername.

However, when I right click on C: or back it up, it behaves as if the 60GB is present on the C: drive, even though it's actually on D:. It's pretty frustrating as I have 60GB less free space on my system disk that I should have, and C: backups are about 60GB bigger than they should be.

If I actually go into the MyUsername folder, select all the contents and view their properties, it comes out to 666Mb as it should, but if I right click the parent folder it shows as 60Gb.

Any idea why this is happening, and how to fix it, it's incredibly annoying; adding to backup times, backup sizes and occupied disk space.
 
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