Solved SSD space is disappearing. Troublshooted almost everything already.

z3r010 said:

I'm only going to say this once - We do not help pirates and I'll start slapping infractions on those that knowingly do.

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And this thread is the reason that I no longer fool around with any pirated software. You cannot trust it, especially the hacked and preactivated copies of the OS. You never know what was done behind the scenes and you simply cannot trust it.

All of my software is either "free" or paid for legitimately.

We started off trying to solve a mystery, in good faith. We ended up with a lesson on why not to pirate software. An interesting turn, but unexpected at the onset. A Guy

A Guy said:

We started off trying to solve a mystery, in good faith. We ended up with a lesson on why not to pirate software. An interesting turn, but unexpected at the onset. A Guy

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The time of many wasted trying to fix a problem created with pirate software that we were not aware of does bother me a lot.

Also bothers me. I sit here thinking what I could have done to have discovered the source of the problem easily. I would get massive resistance from people if I, at the start, asked them to run the Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper since that is a task which can easily take half of a day.

I had this situation occur to me at one time... Eraser at the time was creating jiberish folders full of nothing on my root drive.... i had it set to do schedule cleaning and somehow it left these weird massive files and folders behind....
I used free Norton commander, being certain that i initiated the program (free Norton Commander) as an administrator to delete all the garbage files and folders, uninstalled the Eraser program and re-installed it without the schedule cleanings and have not had the issue arise again.... I now frequently look for bogus files and folders to make certain my drive is clean.....

Good Luck

Check C:\Windows\Temp!

I just wanted to post an anecdotal comment about a similar issue. In fact, I found this thread when searching for why my 120GB SSD was showing around 60GB used and 20GB free.

After reading through this thread, I had the "duh" moment that I hadn't been running WinDirStat as administrator. Sure enough, my C:\Windows\Temp folder contained over 17,000 files, all pretty small in size, but that added up to around 40GB. These files were only visible to WinDirStat after running it as administrator.

Hopefully this note will help someone else!

I had the same problem but using using tuneup 2011 then opening gain disc space, then find and open delete large amounts of data which opens disc explorer program analyze c then open file(top left) settings set at edit personal settings and tick permanently disable protection press ok analyze c again open system volume information file in it i found a system restore folder which had 12 gb of data in it .to delete it, change the delete profile to tuneup shredder;overwrite data (at the top) then delete the file i have had no problem after doing this a week later but i still have my backup (just in case)and gained 12gb of space on my ssd ps you can do this in the trail period and used this program for years and would recommend it to anyone

I have the same problem with corsair 120gb hard disk . I run the spacesniffer and the results were


As i see, kaspersky pure has 53,5 GB !!!!!!! what is this?? It doesnt seem so ok to me :/

Welcome to Seven Forums costaspan. This is an old thread started by a software pirate. It is always best to start a new thread. But, have a look and see if Tracing is your problem.

With Kaspersky PURE 2.0 installed on my computer I have found the folder Kaspersky Lab with size of some gigabytes. Why is it so large?

A Guy

Thanks A guy. that must be the problem. Although i got more problems with Kaspersky Pure 3.0 now, with data manager. Thanks again for the resolution

No problem, post your new problem in an appropriate forum here and I'm sure you will get some suggestions. A Guy

I realize this is a very old thread, but I came here hoping for help with this exact issue (disappearing free space). I would actually have been fine with a response of, "sorry, because you have pirated software on your PC, we can no longer help you, and anyone else experiencing this issue should open a new thread." But the perception I got from the responses was, "this pirated software was the cause of the issue, problem solved."

I suppose I would have much rather seen the thread closed with a "will not fix" tag, because I wasted quite a bit of time getting to the end.

Oh, and by the way, I did figure out my own problem, which was caused by this redis bug:
https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/issues/87

For some reason, the RedisQFork files are not picked up by WinDirStat (maybe I'll need to file a bug report with them).