In my case, it was caused by having Reboot Restore Rx installed on the machine and only switching it on when I wanted to do something risky on my machine so as to create a fresh baseline to restore to. I had this *exact* problem myself and it took quite a bit of investigating to nail it down. I was wondering if I had accidentally generated a large file and it got saved in a location I had mistyped, but when I search for large files, I don't find any (and wouldn't it show up in the WinDirStat report?). There were a few attempts where I typed the wrong syntax. Could this be affecting this, even though the backup target is an external drive and I'm not even backing up anything on my C drive?Īlso, yesterday, I used fsutil command lines to try to generate large test files. What's my next step in diagnosing what's suddenly and mysteriously taking up more than 250 GB of space?īy the way, I started iDrive backup service about a week ago and am slowly backing up about 1.8TB from my other drives to a USB external drive. I already ran a disk cleanup, which only reduced it a little bit. WinDirStat run as administrator shows 67.6 GB total on my C drive, which is what I would expect it to be. This is about 5x the amount of space that I would expect to be used up and that I had the last time I checked a couple of weeks ago. For my 500GB SSD (C drive), Windows Explorer properties shows 339 GB used space and 125 GB free space
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