Invisible Files Taking Up Space

[Going_Insomniac]

I have probably uninstalled something and it didn't go through. As you can see it says used space 185 but all my files equate to about 132. I have NO HIDDEN files. Anyway to fix this? Its an ssd I don't want to try out writing 0s on empty cells only to find out it didn't work out 

[dilpickle]

Take a screenshot of your root directory.

[Going_Insomniac]

3 hours ago, dilpickle said:

Take a screenshot of your root directory.

Not sure how this will help but ok

[dilpickle]

35 minutes ago, Going_Insomniac said:

Not sure how this will help but ok

It helps because it tells me that you are not viewing Hidden Files. There are a bunch of hidden files and folders at the root level that aren't being counted when you Select All. These are multi gigabytes worth of data.

[Going_Insomniac]

4 hours ago, Going_Insomniac said:

have NO HIDDEN files.

I made sure include that in my question

 

2 minutes ago, dilpickle said:

It helps because it tells me that you are not viewing Hidden Files. There are a bunch of hidden files and folders at the root level that aren't being counted when you Select All. These are multi gigabytes worth of data.

 

[dilpickle]

4 hours ago, Going_Insomniac said:

 have NO HIDDEN files.

Obviously not true since at the very least there should be a $RECYCLE.BIN and a System Volume Information folder. The latter is where indexing files are stored which you have enabled. Its also where System Restore points are stored.

[Going_Insomniac]

Possible reason: Either Steam, Xbox, or Ubi made allocation for a game and that installation ended up getting cancelled 

Solution: Just ended up formatting whole volume

[dilpickle]

Lol. When you fill the drive up again don't be surprised if the same thing happens again.