Path:
eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!mx0
4.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POS
TED!not-for-mail
From: Paul 
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,microsoft.p
ublic.windowsxp.general
Subject: Re: Disk reports FULL even after deletes, etc
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:03:39 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 40
Message-ID: 
References: 
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 22:03:38 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org;
posting-host="rINphOabA15tDrAy8vnw0g";
 logging-data="20503";
mail-complaints-to="abuse{at}eternal-september.org";
posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+gfgcFDt+fOGzPRjN3k36OMQDNfcK0Yhk="
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)
In-Reply-To:

Cancel-Lock: sha1:mhKmZjbvaQTH6MiJD8yqF6/AQY4=
Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:27944 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:231
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:87240

voice_of_reason{at}australia.edu wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> I am having a problem whereby my disk is reporting as FULL (123MB
> remaining on a 18.6GB drive)
> 
> ODDITY 1:
> When I add up the sizes of the files on the drive, it comes to just
> under 13GB. Even adding in space reserved for system restore, this
> takes it to 15GB
> 
> ODDITY 2:
> Running disk clean-up, it shows that it should recover approximately
> 2GB.....but after running and even rebooting, the available space
> jumped up to only about 400MB....and then on subsequent reboot when
> back to only 123MB.
> 
> How can I find out what is taking up the free space on the drive and
> remove it?
> 
> Thank you!

You can use SequoiaView, to view the contents of your disk.

http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiavi
ew/download_sequoiaview/

It uses colored rectangles, to represent files. And that may
make it easier to spot a "hog".

http://w3.win.tue.nl/typo3temp/pics/736444cb4d.jpg

I was running a piece of software yesterday, that was doing a
download, and yet the file was not stored in the temp directory.
Using Sequoiaview, and doing a "refresh", I was able to spot where
the file was actually being stored by that program.

You could have some software installed, which is making hidden
copies of stuff. Think about any special software you've installed.

    Paul
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1