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My computer memory appears to be nearly full, but I have no files saved?

Anonymous
2018-09-21T20:41:28+00:00

Hi all,

I have a relatively new computer and mostly work remotely on it from work.

So all my files are on the work's server and I then VPN and remote desktop in.

I have very few files saved on it yet it says I have nearly filled all of the available memory as you can see below?

 Checking through the folders on the system I find that "Windows" has 31GB and "Users" has 41GB.

No one else users this computer, if I check my folder under the users folder this is where all of the 41GB are located. If I pick through each subfolder in my folder I can't find anything like this total in there? Any ideas?

I do have iTunes and noted that it stored music files taking up a lot of space, so I exported all of these to an external hard drive.

Thanks in adavnce of your help,

James.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-09-21T21:48:34+00:00

    You are talking about "Disk space", not about "Memory".

    You can use this free tool to find out what's eating your disk space:

    http://www.jam-software.com/treesize\_free/

    Note also that an 89 GByte hard disk is grossly inadequate in the current environment. 250 GBytes would be acceptable, 500 GBytes would be good. You can get a 500 GByte disk for less than $50.00.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-09-22T09:22:18+00:00

    Did you run the Windows Disk Cleanup yet?

    Make sure your system is not afflicted with this popular Windows bug:

    https://www.computerworld.com/article/3112358/microsoft-windows/windows-7-log-file-compression-bug-can-fill-up-your-hard-drive.html

    How much RAM is in the system of unspecified make and model?

    If you have lots of RAM and have hibernation enabled you can switch that off which will/could remove a very large hiberil.sys file.

    To do that open a Command Prompt as administrator and enter the following command followed by the Enter key:

    powercfg   -h   off

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-09-22T08:58:46+00:00

    Hi Frederik,

    Thanks for the reply, yep I know its not much disc space but it was more the unexplained use of the space that I can't locate that I wanted ot find out about.

    Unfortunately due to a lack of disc space I cant download the tool on the link you sent, as I don't know where the disc space is being used I can't free any up to be able to download!

    Thanks,

    James.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-09-22T10:44:47+00:00

    I have free'd up a small amount of space, as I have around 1GB free now. But still this seemingly large amount stored in my files that I can not locate..... 

    Yes, you can when using the tool that I recommended.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-09-22T10:26:24+00:00

    I have free'd up a small amount of space, as I have around 1GB free now. But still this seemingly large amount stored in my files that I can not locate.....

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