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My SSD filled up over night! Need help ASAP!

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You may wanna install windirstat and see what took up so much space.

Since Valorant is now in closed beta, i've been afk farming keys overnight.

I woke up to a low disk space error from Windows.

My C drive had 2MB LEFT!!!!!! FROM 200GB IT WENT DOWN TO 2MB.

OVERNIGHT!

I don't know what's the culprit, or if it's just an error, but I had to delete PUBG just to normally open Chrome and Discord.

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5 minutes ago, jaxxxxxx said:

Since Valorant is now in closed beta, i've been afk farming keys overnight.

I woke up to a low disk space error from Windows.

My C drive had 2MB LEFT!!!!!! FROM 200GB IT WENT DOWN TO 2MB.

OVERNIGHT!

I don't know what's the culprit, or if it's just an error, but I had to delete PUBG just to normally open Chrome and Discord.

Settings > System > Storage > let it calculate for a couple seconds and see what catagory uses up the most space.

Click on this to see what program/files take up all this space.

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1 minute ago, minibois said:

Settings > System > Storage > let it calculate for a couple seconds and see what catagory uses up the most space.

Click on this to see what program/files take up all this space.

There is no major game/program installed. When I went by size, the Call of Duty 2 is the biggest file in there.

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You may wanna install windirstat and see what took up so much space.

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To gain a bit of breathing space you can run the Windows built in Disk Clean Up tool to free up some space. Check the options carefully, especially as it includes an option to wipe the default download folder.

 

Beyond that, I like using windirstat to visualise what is taking up space. It shows what folders are using up how much space, and you can then use that info to work out where the hog is, and from there how to fix it.

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I restarted my computer to see if it was an error, but to no avail.

It's still at 38gb after I deleted PUBG.

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3 minutes ago, jaslion said:

You may wanna install windirstat and see what took up so much space.

Thank you for helping so much, holy shit.

It was the text documents (.logs) and they filled up a whopping 200GB!!!!!

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2 minutes ago, porina said:

To gain a bit of breathing space you can run the Windows built in Disk Clean Up tool to free up some space. Check the options carefully, especially as it includes an option to wipe the default download folder.

 

Beyond that, I like using windirstat to visualise what is taking up space. It shows what folders are using up how much space, and you can then use that info to work out where the hog is, and from there how to fix it.

Thank you too for recommending me windirstat, will definitely use it.

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1 minute ago, jaxxxxxx said:

Thank you for helping so much, holy shit.

It was the text documents (.logs) and they filled up a whopping 200GB!!!!!

May wanna report that to the devs. It's in beta after all and this is why :p.

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1 minute ago, jaxxxxxx said:

It was the text documents (.logs) and they filled up a whopping 200GB!!!!!

Is it obvious what software created it? 

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4 minutes ago, porina said:

Is it obvious what software created it? 

Yeah, Riot Games. Go figure.

I have Riot Games installed on the D drive, but it filled up 200gb in AppData.

Could be because of the Twitch-Riot Games connection for the drops.

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5 minutes ago, jaslion said:

May wanna report that to the devs. It's in beta after all and this is why :p.

Devs already know about it.

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