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Opening File Explorer Freezes PC

LYPTUS
By LYPTUS
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Hi there,

I had a long gaming session yesterday with around 175GB recorded through OBS. After I ended the session I noticed that whenever I open up my File Explorer, the disk usage according to Task Managers goes up to 100% and the memory usage climbs steadily. After around a minute it will be at 100% memory usage which is where the entire system freezes and only a restart will let me use it again. I can do everything as usual as long as i dont open file explorer. Does anyone know what the issue could be here?

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I can think of three reasons. One is that drive is nearly full. Another is that you haven't indexed in a while and added chunk of data to be indexed (duh with 175gb). Third would be that drive is failing.

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