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A simple question on 2TB storage settings

Anonymous
2023-05-22T20:55:58+00:00

So here's a little question I have regarding my storage and having 2 TB on my laptop. So, as you can see, according to my storage settings, it says I have a lot of room left over for more stuff on my computer with 1.63 TB. But I'm confused about why the category bar for Pictures is the most full. At first I thought that it meant that that's because the pictures are what's taking up the most of it as seen through the 120 GB out of 232 GB thing.

But now I'm worried that it means I'm almost out of room for how many more pictures I can save. I REALLY hope that's not the case since for the longest time I was led to believe that 1.63 more TB would allow me to save so many more pictures. I've always been a big picture saver and I'll definitely save more in the future so I really hope that the nearly full Pictures bar doesn't equal how many more pictures I can save and that it's rather the rest of the 1.63 TB showing how many more pictures I can save.

Once again, I really hope that it's what I initially thought it was in that it's simply showing that pictures are what's taking up the most of that 232 GB space I have and that it doesn't mean that come a few more gigabytes I won't have anymore room for pictures in particular. I'm hoping that maybe when the bar for pictures gets full it'll move over to 233 GB when my storage saves more pictures.

So sorry, I know I'm not the best at explaining these things and I know that I probably sound a little dense for not entirely knowing how this works and what it means, but I just want reassurance that it's the 1.63 TB that represents how many more pictures I can save rather than the Picture category bar itself. I really hope I'm wrong and that I can still save a whole bunch of more pictures still. I hope it ultimately just means that pictures are what's mostly taking up the already used 232 GB like I initially thought. I hope it doesn't prevent me from saving more pictures once it makes it up to the full 232 GB. I hope it simply leads to 233 more GB taken up out of all of that space on my 2 TB hard drive.

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  1. EmilyS726 227.5K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-05-22T21:32:31+00:00

    Hello, this is Emily.

    Based on this screenshot, it means you only used 232GB out of the 1.86TB space. (The system reserves some space for recovery partition, and other purposes behind the scene, that's why you don't see the 2TB space total).

    Then out of the 232GB already used, your pictures used 120GB of it. You are far from running out of room because you still have 1.63TB space left. All of the categories breakdown bars are showing you how much each category used out of the total space used.

    I hope that makes sense and answers your questions.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-22T23:13:42+00:00

    Of course. But it's just really great to know that I still have lots of space leftover like I originally thought I did. Glad it turned out to be exactly how you said it was with which category was taking up the most out of the 232 GB used. Once again thanks so much for your answer. :)

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  2. Craig Long 17,825 Reputation points
    2023-05-22T22:00:50+00:00

    Go to your Pictures folder and you will see the folder Camera Roll there which holds video. Video takes up a lot of space.

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  3. EmilyS726 227.5K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-05-22T22:23:01+00:00

    No worries. Yes, you have 1.63TB space left yet. Obviously you don't want to use it all the way to 0TB left as the system needs room to function, but you've got a lot of space left to use for any personal files or apps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-22T22:16:31+00:00

    Phew! Okay good, that's what I originally thought but I guess I just got a little worried and wanted some verification on it. So thank you so much for that! So I really can save a whole bunch of more pictures without worrying about that? Sorry, still just wanna really make sure cause I worry too much.

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