Help, what's caused this ?


  1. Odd Job
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    Help, what's caused this ?


    I have just installed Windows 7 professional on my new built machine. This morning I have been copying over files and documents from my old OS (win XP on a different drive), to my current OS.

    I have another version of windows 7 professional on another hard drive in this machine, but decided to do a clean install on a seperate drive, (the one I am using) after building my computer.

    Two things I have noticed.

    1) All of the files and documents that I copied to my win 7 OS on this hard drive (C:) were duplicated on my other win 7 OS on drive D: and the documents that were on that OS have disappeared.

    2) I was astonished to find that my free hard disk space on C: had suddenly depleted to just 24 GB (on a 250 GB drive with virtually nothing else installed on it.

    Then I found this (picture below)

    My user profile is using up almost 73 GB of space . Any ideas what has caused this, and how to reduce the size back to normal please.
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  3. Odd Job
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    Update:

    I have noticed that the documents I have copied has been copied at least 5 times to 5 locations.

    Desktop/Libraries/Documents/My Documents
    Desktop/Gra/My Documents (twice)
    Computer/Local Disk C:/Documents and Settings/Gra/My Documents (twice)

    Also all of my downloaded programs have also been copied to two locations.

    Desktop/Gra/Downloads
    Computer/Local Disk C:/Documents and Settings/Gra/Downloads

    The downloads probably take up about 30Gb each so this will be a lot of my used space.
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  4. logicearth
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    Umm... "C:/Documents and Settings/" is a junction there is nothing there. And Libraries is just a view it doesn't store anything. Did you alter the permissions of the drive or folders in anyway?
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  6. Odd Job
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    No permissions were changed, I just changed ownership of certain folders to me so that I could access them.
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  7. logicearth
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    Odd Job said:
    No permissions were changed, I just changed ownership of certain folders to me so that I could access them.
    That is changing permissions. No doubt you opened junction points. Like Documents and Settings.
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