Riiiiight, so today I decided to clean up my PC a bit, because it told me that I only had 33.8 (somewhat) gigs of space left of my 285 gig hard drive. So... I was like, "There's no way I have that many files." But I figured well, you never know what might eat some of it up. So I backed up all of my video and photography stuff on an external drive, and went through and deleted 8 or so gigs of media I don't need off of my computer.
So I think I ended up after cleaning up with about 45 gigs of free space left. I had run CCleaner and all of that jazz, emptied recycle bin and such. I still thought "What's taking up my 230 gigs of space here?" So I ran a program called "WinDirStat" that shows all of your directories and visually shows what is taking up space. Well, it reports that I'm only using 66.8 gigs of space, so I should have a lot free. The two biggest files it finds are my pagefile (bout 4 gigs) and a hibernation file (3.8 gigs). The bulk of the space it shows that is gone, is used by my music, photos, and some videos, and some programs, which I'm fine with, but where is the rest of the space?!
So, I thought, hmm, maybe it's hidden files or something? I don't know. Maybe I need to defrag? I haven't done that in months. So I used Defraggler and defragged my laptop. So yeah, that took about five hours, and guess what?!? It marked me having MORE SPACE USED!!! I only have 9 gigs free of 285 according to my computer, so it keeps telling me "You have less than 10% space left!"
AHHHHHH why did defragging eat 30 gigs? What's taking up my space? How do I get what should be like "200 gigs free of 285."
*whimpers* Help?
EDIT: AHH I forgot to say that this is Windows 7.
EDIT 2: Either I misread before or I just lost 2 more gigs. 7.77 free. lol
EDIT 3: Ooh hey, it's back to 10 gigs free, I suppose that's a step in the right direction.
Clear C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Temp
Clear cache.
Search for and delete FLSpew
Zealot Wrote:Just go play the game and have fun dammit.
Treewyrm Wrote:all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.
Also, if you've recently downloaded or got some form of TV show or movie series on your computer, that could clog things up. I've a whopping 42 gigs of stuff I'd forgotten about until recently...
Uh, Ccleaner is saying my firefox interent cache is only 56 megs. I'm back down to 9gigs too, it's like, jumping around. If I have internet history for a few months would that eat a hundred gigs?
I can't find FLSpew, not coming up in searches, but WinDirStat is showing my largest file AS my page file, which is set at 4 gigs, I checked. Hmm
Oh, and I haven't really downloaded anything large lately. I never download movies/tv shows or whatever.
Just saying... did you checked the folder size of the Freelancer ScreenShots? You can find it in my documents/my pictures/freelancer shots.
These screenshots are .bmp and they eat a lot.
Oh and use the windows defragmenter , don't install other programs that are doing the same thing.
' Wrote:Just saying... did you checked the folder size of the Freelancer ScreenShots? You can find it in my documents/my pictures/freelancer shots.
These screenshots are .bmp and they eat a lot.
Oh and use the windows defragmenter , don't install other programs that are doing the same thing.
I rarely take screenshots, in fact, I don't think I have since I've reinstalled the game.
I did use a different defragger... would it change anything if I went and used the windows defragger now? I'm also running an MSE virus scan to see if there's anything of that manner...
I have the same problem on Vista, but a little more extreme. My wonderful 225 GB hard drive went down to 9 GB suddenly and was at the point where the computer was literally failing to boot. I had to go through some Drive Repair thing to get it back alive, after which I promptly cleaned up 30 GB of stuff. Another 10 GB has mysteriously disappeared since then. As far as I know, I'm probably not using more than 150 GB of space. Help me, Discoverse!
I'm just a firm believer that Windows is evil, and eats things; storage space, .dll files, and that piece of chicken you where saving for lunch, stupid windows *shakes fist*.