SSD Slowly Filling Up After Every Boot

[dalekphalm]

7 minutes ago, JustAStrangeGeek said:

Results using Disk Savvy

 

 

 

That's certainly a start, but it's not specific enough to really gauge what's eating up your space.

 

You should also reboot, and run the program again, multiple times, (taking screen shots between each reboot), to track and see if you can catch which part of the chart is growing in size and percentage.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

That was only one side of the application, Disk Savvy does much more.

[dalekphalm]

1 minute ago, JustAStrangeGeek said:

That was only one side of the application, Disk Savvy does much more.

As long as it gives you details on specific files/folders that are big data hogs, then yeah - good.

 

Rebooting and tracking the progress should allow you to nail down exactly what is growing, and where it lives.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Will run these two charts for the next 2 boots.

[vanished]

Yeah that's what we need to see.  It should reveal a certain folder getting ~1 GB larger, which assuming the tool gives you enough detail should lead you right to the file responsible, and that should tell us what is causing it or at least point us in the right direction.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

2nd boot Disk Savvy results:

 

After Analysing these charts, Nothing has changed apart from:

 

 Disk Space Per Directory

- First Analysis - Users - 11.13 GB

- Second Analysis - Users - 11.10 GB

 

Disk Space Per Extension

- First Analysis - DAT Files - 703.08 MB

- Second Analysis - DAT Files - 702.72 MB

 

- First Analysis - Other - 10.40 GB

- Second Analysis - Other  -10.39 GB

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Aaaand, Ima do some 3D modelling.

[dalekphalm]

10 minutes ago, JustAStrangeGeek said:

2nd boot Disk Savvy results:

 

After Analysing these charts, Nothing has changed apart from:

 

 Disk Space Per Directory

- First Analysis - Users - 11.13 GB

- Second Analysis - Users - 11.10 GB

 

Disk Space Per Extension

- First Analysis - DAT Files - 703.08 MB

- Second Analysis - DAT Files - 702.72 MB

 

- First Analysis - Other - 10.40 GB

- Second Analysis - Other  -10.39 GB

Nothing particularly out of the ordinary there.

 

Does This PC or Disk Management show a significant increase? More than what we can account for here with Disk Savvy?

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Windows Shows no increase, it hasn't been doing so since I updated it.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Disk Management, Storage settings and Magician all report no increase.

[dalekphalm]

1 minute ago, JustAStrangeGeek said:

Disk Management, Storage settings and Magician all report no increase.

Well, you might be in luck, then.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Maybe.

 

I think I will analyse the disk two more times instead of the original three times. Just to make sure.

[dalekphalm]

Just now, JustAStrangeGeek said:

Maybe.

 

I think I will analyse the disk two more times instead of the original three times. Just to make sure.

Keep an eye on it over the next week or two. If you notice an increase, immediately run a utility to check.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Looking at Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Application

 

Almost every event is an error under the application tab.

[leadeater]

My guess is either Windows Updates download cache or the swap file growing.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

8 hours ago, leadeater said:

My guess is either Windows Updates download cache or the swap file growing.

Could be.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Third boot Disk Savvy results:

 

 

Changes from 2nd boot to 3rd boot (it should be noted that my SSD firmware updated before this test)

 

Disk Space Per Directory

 

- Second Analysis - Users - 11.10 GB

- Third Analysis - Users - 11.15 GB

 

- Second Analysis - Windows - 21.66 GB

- Third Analysis - Windows - 21.65 GB

 

- Second Analysis - Program Files - 6.12 GB

- Third Analysis - Program Files - 5.80GB

 

Disk Space Per Extension

 

- Second Analysis - DLL Files - 19.02 GB

- Third Analysis - DLL Files - 18.98 GB

 

- Second Analysis - NOEXT Files - 7.47 GB

- Third Analysis - NOEXT Files - 7.52 GB

 

- Second Analysis - SYS Files - 692.35 MB

- Third Analysis - SYS Files - 692.01 MB

 

- Second Analysis - DAT Files - 702.72 MB

- Third Analysis - DAT Files - 598.87 MB

 

- Second Analysis - VPX Files - 461.35 MB

- Third Analysis - VPX Files - 461.62 MB

 

- Second Analysis - Other - 10.39 GB

- Third Analysis - Other - 10.20 GB

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Windows settings and Disk Management report no increase while Magician reports a decrease.

[vanished]

I would not bother running the tool unless you notice the 1 GB drop in disk space that you reported experiencing in the OP.  After all there's no need to see details if you know there's no change.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

23 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I would not bother running the tool unless you notice the 1 GB drop in disk space that you reported experiencing in the OP.  After all there's no need to see details if you know there's no change.

Yeah. Just did it to see if Windows was accurately measuring SSD space.

[JustAStrangeGeek]

Hey all,

 

I just wanted to say thanks for all the replies and support that I have experienced from all of you guys (this is getting real cringey). I greatly appreciate it.

 

For the past few boots now, my PC hasn't been adding that 1GB extension, and if it doesn't report any more odd changes like this, the thread will get abandoned. If there is another change in storage space that was not of me, I will report it here. But in the meantime, thanks again to everyone.

 

-JustAStrangeGeek