Hard Drive Nearly Full

PJB

WinDirStat result, not too sure what it means!!!

PJB

And a close up:

closed

It means, you probably have some large junk under users\pjb\appdata, keep expanding that tree until you find it.

Doubt there is any need to delete your photo's.

Movies appear to be taking up a lot of space

PJB

closed wrote: »

It means, you probably have some large junk under users\pjb\appdata, keep expanding that tree until you find it.

Doubt there is any need to delete your photo's.

Movies appear to be taking up a lot of space

Followed the tree and it is my alt.binz downloads. Want to keep reallyas it is my music etc collection but think i'll have to back up to external and select some to keep.
Edit: Just deleted some movies that watched and now have 12.3 GB free but hard drive still shows as Red???

Also I tried to download dupzilla from Cnet Download but got an Eset warning message saying it contains a potentially unwanted application. Anyone know if this is safe or should I just not risk it?

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37GB of movies, 3 gb of flacs, 4 gb of email, 3GB iso file.

PJB

closed wrote: »

37GB of movies, 3 gb of flacs, 4 gb of email, 3GB iso file.

Thanks

The movies is movies & music.

What are flacs?

How do I sift the email and ID the ISO?

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Do you need (any or all of) the movies on c:?, they take up more space than any other file format - search through your mpg's, avi's, mp4's, 3gp's, mkv's and trim/move to usb/burn to dvd then delete.

Emails are stored in pst's, thin out all your old emails, especially one's with big attachments, delete, then compress the pst.

.iso is an image of a dvd or cd - find out what it is, and delete if not needed.

flacs are high quality music files, if you aren't bothered about quality, they can be converted to mp3 to save space.

Empty recycle bin, and run ccleaner when you've finished.

If the photo's are jpg's they take up less than 1GB according to the report, is video mixed in with them?

PJB

closed wrote: »

Do you need (any or all of) the movies on c:?, they take up more space than any other file format - search through your mpg's, avi's, mp4's, 3gp's, mkv's and trim/move to usb/burn to dvd then delete.

Emails are stored in pst's, thin out all your old emails, especially one's with big attachments, delete, then compress the pst.

.iso is an image of a dvd or cd - find out what it is, and delete if not needed.

flacs are high quality music files, if you aren't bothered about quality, they can be converted to mp3 to save space.

Empty recycle bin, and run ccleaner when you've finished.

Thanks alot

Have deleted the movies and some duplicate music files and my system has hard drive back to blue, whoopeee and thanks everybody!

yangptangkipperbang

PJB wrote: »

Have 27gb of photo's which I don't mind compressing and copying to external hard drives but bit worried about losing them. Any advice?

If you are a "bit worried about losing them" why on earth have you only got one hard drive ??? :eek::eek: Get another - yesterday, if not sooner !

I have 260GB of photographs and 3 HDDs and am on the point of getting another.

googler

PJB wrote: »

Thanks I will try the WinDirStat.

I have 3 external hard drives. 1 is 1tb, the others I think are 550gb and in separate enclosures so prefer not spend nowt if I can!

If you have free space on any or all of those, then I don't see what the problem is.

Offload data from the C drive to one or more externals....