Storage full?

[Cypher_Bauer]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm new here so i'm sorry if this is in the wrong place or not formatted correctly.

 

I will keep my post brief. So my SSD is 223GB and there is only 11.3GB remaining. I only use it for windows and a couple of small games (Astroneer and Dawn of War). When i try to figure out what is taking up the storage i can't seem to find anything that would take up over 100GB!

There is nothing in the downloads, videos, documents or other folders. Is there a way to scan for what is using up all this storage space?

Thanks in advance.

[Oshino Shinobu]

WinDirStat or SpaceSniffer are both good programs for figuring out what's taking up space. 

 

https://windirstat.net/

 

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

[DoctorNick]

[Master Disaster]

When running Disk Clean Up its important to click "Clean System Files" and accept the UAC Prompt before ticking all the boxes.

[SupaKomputa]

Treesize Free

Use disk cleaner, make sure to check "clean system files" to see if there's any system files that you can clean.

Select anything looks big.

[KangUsapEmenq]

Been on the same problem lately. 120 GB of SSD (because I'm broke and I actually regret to bought it too quickly, rather get bigger size) and 21 GB left despite only using it for basic apps.

 

29 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

WinDirStat or SpaceSniffer are both good programs for figuring out what's taking up space. 

 

https://windirstat.net/

 

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

This does work. Really (fricking) well. Turns out some old SDK files of Android Studio still stuck in there, old unused backup of iTunes, and turns out LINE app taking so much space for a chatting app. Thanks a lot for this.

 

And edit. Guess what. From 20 GB of free space to 50 GBs. Holy shit man you're really a saver.

27 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

Spoiler

 

Indeed this does work too (albeit don't hope much from it, you'd only free 1-5 GBs, it really depends) if you don't clean your drive often. 

[Takt1kal]

22 minutes ago, Cypher_Bauer said:

Hi everyone,

 

I'm new here so i'm sorry if this is in the wrong place or not formatted correctly.

 

I will keep my post brief. So my SSD is 223GB and there is only 11.3GB remaining. I only use it for windows and a couple of small games (Astroneer and Dawn of War). When i try to figure out what is taking up the storage i can't seem to find anything that would take up over 100GB!

There is nothing in the downloads, videos, documents or other folders. Is there a way to scan for what is using up all this storage space?

Thanks in advance.

Clean temps-

Press the Windows Button + R to open the "Run" dialog box.

Enter this text: %temp%

Click "OK." This will open your temp folder.

Press Ctrl + A to select all.

Press "Delete" on your keyboard and click "Yes" to confirm.

All temporary files will now be deleted.

And download Clean up which can automatically clear more temps such has prefetch.

https://cleanup.en.uptodown.com/windows

The software is old but good.

Hope it helps. 

[TehDwonz]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

When running Disk Clean Up its important to click "Clean System Files" and accept the UAC Prompt before ticking all the boxes.

Or, if you want to clean up more things than normally appear there, try the following:

Admin CMD prompt

cleanmgr /sageset:<n>

Where <n> is any integer - I use 1 (you can define different profiles, for scripting)

 

This opens the familiar cleanup interface, but with every possible option. Tick all the ones you want cleaned, and click OK. Nothing happens!
That just saved the profile, to use it (again, admin prompt):

cleanmgr /sagerun:<n>

Again, <n> was the integer you used before. This will then run the cleanup defined in profile <n>.

I set this as a scheduled task once a week along with a batch file that wipes the following folders (skips files in-use):

%WINDIR%\Temp
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp

 

NOTE: the documentation on this command is less than amazing, and says that adding "/D C:" on the end will confine the cleanup to drive C:. I have found this is not always the case however, so use with caution if you ticked the "empty recycle bin" option, as it may empty all drive recycle bins that are mounted at the time. Oddly, I have seen it work as intended on some systems but not others, so YMMV.

 

edit: tagging OP @Cypher_Bauer

Edited September 29, 2020 by TehDwonz

[Cypher_Bauer]

Thanks for the help here peeps! I appreciate it! I managed to locate some files and folders that were taking up a lot of space and freed up nearly 100GB. Going to give one or two of those programs a go  todayand see if they can fish out a few more gig