Loosing 1GB of space a day

[Brian Smithers]

I loose about 10GB a day.
Thats why I have 2 1TB backupdrives.
First one is filled
Second one only has 200GB left
and my computer only has 30GB left.
Edit
Yesterday it had 40GB
The day before that it had 50.7GB
The day before that it had 80GB (I moved my downloaded/baught operating systems onto my external drive)
The day before that it had 89.9 (I was doing some things with some images)
and I think you can fill out the rest.

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[dorkdotdan]

I loose about 10GB a day.
Thats why I have 2 1TB backupdrives.
First one is filled
Second one only has 200GB left
and my computer only has 30GB left.
Edit
Yesterday it had 40GB
The day before that it had 50.7GB
The day before that it had 80GB (I moved my downloaded/baught operating systems onto my external drive)
The day before that it had 89.9 (I was doing some things with some images)
and I think you can fill out the rest.

Jesus stuff.

[Alyx Vance]

Jesus stuff.

Thats some holy stuff.

[dorkdotdan]

I thought it's spelled "losing"

Spellcheck doesn't give a stuff.

[Brian Smithers]

Lets see
In my "LaCie 2" Drive in the root there is 20 items, 209.4 GB available
In the root
Folder:Backups.backupdb
File:rob 2 release.rar
Folder:School
Folder:First season of Breakout Kings I downloaded from iTunes
File:Science.docx (contains a history of all my experiments)
Folder:Skyrim (contains all my skyrim stuff)
File:Tron Legacy (that movie, got it on iTunes)
File:Image.tiff (image of cheese6 I messed up in photoshop, used to be in the TribalRP folder)
Folder:Adventure Time (I downloaded every single episode of Adventure Time
Folder:Blockland (I found my first Blockland folder from v8 on my old computer, put it on for nostalgia)
File:gamemode_minecraft.zip
File:cheese pickin g nose.png (me and him were video chatting playing truth or dare, fill in the rest)
Folder: ubuntu (30GB, it contains all the operating systems I've bought and downloaded)
Yeah, Im a boss. In total that takes up about 800GB. Ill plug in my LaCie 1 in a sec
Edit
Just plugged in my LaCie 1, time to list

File:300 (The movie, bought)
Folder:Aptana Rubles (No idea)
Folder:Backups.backupdb
Folder:blockbastion
Folder:Blue Crab (what the forget is this)
Folder:BrianHosting (old backup of my site before I deleted everything on it)
Folder:Bunch-O-Add-ons (contains about 5,000 addons.)
Folder:CaveJohnsonLemons(You dont want to know)
Folder:Test (I have a few of these)
Application:Final Cut Pro (Bought, backed up for obvious reasons)
Folder:Game Works(the forget)
Application:[Removed]
Folder:Mario Paint Composer OSX (oh yeahh)
Application:Microsoft Silverlight (the forget)
Folder:Monopoly (you really, really, really, do not want to know)
Folder:NetBeans(no idea)
Folder:New Movies(some Final Cut stuff)
Folder:Old Movies(^^)
Folder:Other Movies(look at Monopoly)
Application:Parallels Desktop(yea, i bought this and never used it so i just backed it up)
Application:PHP Code Tester(this is about 2 years old, when I was a noob at PHP and I needed to test stuff locally)
File:PHP Code Tester.zip(I tried to click on get info but i clicked archive ^)
Folder:PixelStuff (Contains all my pixel creations)
Folder:Random Stuff (well I guess I wont be going to sleep tonight)
Folder:School
Folder:[REDACTED]
File:[REDACTED]
Folder:System_BlockOS (Build 5 of BlockOS, weird)
Application:Vidalia(idk what this is)
Folder:Virtual Machines (I assume this is some VMware thing)
Folder:VirtualBox VMs (I assume this is some Virtual Box VMs)
There is 41 items in that folder, and only 27.1 GB available in it.
Both of those I posted are 1TB backup drives.

[CreamTurk3y]

Spellcheck doesn't give a stuff.

We do

[KoopaScooper]

Your HDD is dying.

you have no idea what you're talking about lol

See if windows is creating restore points daily.
http://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER

You could also consider monitoring where the space is going with something like this

this

[Kalphiter]

Your computer is now on a diet.

[Sheath]

Have you done a virus scan? And I recommend you also check the Internet data tracker, if you have one on your computer or as an online tool with your ISP, to see if anything has been downloading.

Many years back I realized my computer was infected with a growing raft of viruses. I started to lose disk space, and our capped Internet was going really quickly.

When trying to salvage my files in Mac OSX after virus remover tools failed, I found masses of folders. Thousands of them, all with names of games and programs, with megabytes of data in each. There were gigs stored there, and every file was hidden to Windows (even with "show hidden files" enabled).

I'm not sure what it is, but sometimes I wonder if my computer had been turned into a file host for torrenting or something sinister. I ended up clearing the hard drive and starting from scratch.

[Frontrox]

See if windows is creating restore points daily.
http://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER

You could also consider monitoring where the space is going with something like this

That is amazing...

[ZSNO]

You are browsing the internet, right?
Clear your cache, see how much space comes back.

[dorkdotdan]

You are browsing the internet, right?
Clear your cache, see how much space comes back.

about 100MB.

Have you done a virus scan? And I recommend you also check the Internet data tracker, if you have one on your computer or as an online tool with your ISP, to see if anything has been downloading.

Many years back I realized my computer was infected with a growing raft of viruses. I started to lose disk space, and our capped Internet was going really quickly.

When trying to salvage my files in Mac OSX after virus remover tools failed, I found masses of folders. Thousands of them, all with names of games and programs, with megabytes of data in each. There were gigs stored there, and every file was hidden to Windows (even with "show hidden files" enabled).

I'm not sure what it is, but sometimes I wonder if my computer had been turned into a file host for torrenting or something sinister. I ended up clearing the hard drive and starting from scratch.

I don't think I have viruses, I'm usually good at that, but my Antivirus is Norton so who knows. IT expires soon though.

[viper30000]

There is a parasite in your computer that is sucking your GBs
Amputate it
its the only way

[Ethan]

No.

You're pretty funny

[Ethan]

I've forgotten the exact details but Windows 7 has some kind of dynamic cache or something similar that varies the disk space available by considerable amounts (a range of 10GB in my case) randomly.
Just monitor it.