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Where is my disk space
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I recently received a notification that my system is low on memory. I have an xps12 9q33 and it has served me well for 2 years.
When I inspected the storage settings to see what was consuming my disk space, I saw that the main consumers were "System & Reserved" (using up 85.5G) and "Other" (73.7G)
But when I drill down to see whats in "OTHER"folders, I only see at most 8 G being consumed.
So why who is using the other 60G ?
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My system and reserved is showing around 37 GB with 13 being system, 5 Virtual 13 hibernation and 6 for System restore. It should show somewhere in one of those listings where the space is being taken up.
My "Other" section contains all sorts of things, like public folders, searches/links and such and if you are missing 60 GB it should show up, possibly in a public picture or documents folder.
There is another situation right now where you get a Drive full type message. That is being caused by an errant drive letter being placed on a very small partition which is not normally used for system access.
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Posted June 1st, 2018 06:00
Use an application called TreeSize Free. Make sure to run it as administrator so it can inventory all folders. It sorts top-level folders by largest to smallest, and when you drill into one, it sorts subfolders and files by largest to smallest as well, so it becomes clear very quickly where your storage is being consumed.