Have you tried selecting "Show hidden files, folders and drives" and deselecting "Hide protected operating system files"?
Type "Folder options" in the "Start Menu" search box.
Is Windows "Backup and Restore" running?
Is it saving the backups to that drive?
I've never had any problems with SourceForge.
Have you used your AV program to check your machine (since you got that warning)?
you said in your original post...
"I have looked. I don't think I have any videos on it. (I make little music videos. so maybe this is the answer. I just dont know where they are on my C drive. I transfer everything over to my F drive. and then delete them off the C drive, but maybe they don't actually delete??)...really just don't know whats taking up all the space."
Chas, I don't know how knowledgeable you are-so-forgive me if I tell you things you may already know:
first--files do delete (sorta) but,actually move to the recycle bin and are still taking up HD space until you empty the recycle bin (and maybe defrag drive).
second--iTunes gives you a choice, when you add files, to 'copy' files or 'move' them--if you chose copy, then there are two copies of all your files on your HD one set is in iTunes, the other in the original location--additionally, iTunes converts files to the MAC format, which by default makes the files larger--mp3s are incredibly small compared to an AIFF file.
don't know if this helps--but that's a couple ideas on where to look, or how to look, for what 'may be' taking up HD space--it doesn't seem likely that 'running processes' would take up hard drive space (use memory and CPU cycles, but not Hard Drive space).
you guys are all so cool.
thank you for the awesome excellent help.
thanks to you all, I figured out how to look in a couple places. my sony video camera software is saving my videos in the pictures folder.
there was 36 GB of videos in there that I thought I had deleted.
thanks for the help everyone.
I may be late to the party but you saved my bacon here!!!
I did not understand why Windows 7 Ultimate was taking over 275 gig of space considering I've cleaned and moved most stuff to storage drives (music, downloads...)
Turned out that it was the auslogic adware program that too a whopping 150 GIG,
Many, many thanks for this wonderful software!!!
Last edited by Barman58; 23 Jan 2018 at 12:37.
I have that program and it takes up only 81.5 MB. Were you saving thousands of quarantined files?
If I was, I was unaware of it. Was just shocked to see that amount due to the malware soft
It was on my ssd which I use for operating systems (dual boot) The win 7 partition which I gave 300 GB allocation was almost full and I did not understood why and I usually clear quarantine items. It was a huge surprise lol
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