something just stole 20+gigs!!!!!!!!!!

[CyberSlave]

I have a 160gig as my main OS drive.
About 2 hours ago it was at aprox. 128gig free.
Now there are only 80gig free.

I have done nothing aside from downloading some torrents and emptying my trash and norton protected files.
And deleted about 2 gig of porn.

I have no idea what happened, please help.

 

[That_Sound_Guy]

browse folder by folder checking the properties of them to see what is using that space up. Make sure you set your options to see all hidden files.

 

[BillLeeLee]

You might also want to do a search for files created or changed in the last day.

 

[Oopsz]

Could be a problem with norton protection. It once stole 17 gigs off my firewire drive, and its near impossible to tell where they've gone.

Run this command in a shell:

del \\?\c:\recycler\nprotect\*.*

if you have more than one hard drive, change the c: to {d-z} as appropriate.

 

[Zwitterion]

Is norton known for just.. devouring hard drive space? What is it doing thats creating all that garbage?

 

[bjork]

it's "reserving" that space for itself.

right click your recylclebin, and check "norton protected files"... set it to use like 2% (not 15% or whatever it just "takes")...

there are a few other things, too... windows itself tries to take a big slice of every new drive (under recycle bin properties, too). system restore uses big chunks, too...

...and to think i was bold enough to think that stuff put in the garbage is actually delete-able...

 

[CyberSlave]

I found it.

Damn torrents finished and cleared and didn't tell me.

Thanks for the info.
Gonna save it for future referance.

 

[cosmos]

eek... I just ran that command and it deleted 30+ gigs off of two drives even tho I have norton protect set to 0%!!! EVIL!

 

[mosin]

It could be worse, I once uninstalled Norton's altogether, and it took drive space with it. Fortunately, it was on a data drive. I backed it up and did a quick format. I've used no Symantec program since, except Ghost.