Huge Invisible Files On My Hdd

[Fishbong]

<Background story, skip if uninterested>
I´ve done some Video editing with Ulead Video Studio today, i was making a real huge DVD. Ulead VS informed me that it would need 12 GB of temporary storage so ich checked and found that i had 25GB left on my HDD, so i started the encoding. However it failed, and i was left with about 8 GB of useless DVD files. I deleted them and checked the free space on my HDD and it was only 13GB
<End of story>

So, i seem to have some huge hidden Temporary files on my HDD and can´t find them or get rid of them. Is there any program that lets me scan my harddisk for hidden files or any other method to delete all that stuff?

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

You'll probably find programs like that on www.download.com

 

[KoH]

Maby a silly question, dont be offended if it is (im only trying to help )

Have you check the options/preferences to see what folder the software is using as a work folder ??

 

[PokeParadox]

I can think of a few things:

1. Run scan disk ... it can recover lost space due to an invalid HDD index.
2. Check the program's workinf dir for temp files.
3. Check the windows temp folder.
4. Check random folders sizes to see if the numbers equate to the missing space...

 

[nickspoon]

Or use SequoiaView.

 

[NoidZ]

Nah go to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp and delete everything. Everything which is temp is put in there. (sometimes when I do that I get 6gig back or something!

 

[Fishbong]

I can think of a few things:

1. Run scan disk ... it can recover lost space due to an invalid HDD index.
2. Check the program's workinf dir for temp files.
3. Check the windows temp folder.
4. Check random folders sizes to see if the numbers equate to the missing space...

Ok, i know now which folder it is in, i just cant see it. Scandisc takes very long, but lets see if it helps...

Or use SequoiaView.

Thank you.

Nah go to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp and delete everything. Everything which is temp is put in there. (sometimes when I do that I get 6gig back or something!

No, that is completely wrong, only the Windows temp stuff is there, besides my Windows installation is on another Harddisk.

 

[Axeman]

Another good app is Treesize Pro.

get it here - http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

Its available as a trial download, and is absolutely fantastic!

 

[nickspoon]

If you can't see it, open up a command line and do 'del /S "#:\PATH_TO_DIRECTORY"' (without the 's).

 

[Fishbong]

I wanted to install Sequoia View, but Antivir says its a trojan horse called TR/Bdoor-OG.A !

Is that normal? h34r:

 

[nickspoon]

Shouldn't happen, but just in case, get it here:

http://freewarehome.com/index.html?%2FSyst...ers_t.html#1940

 

[BaDToaD]

Another good app is Treesize Pro.

get it here - http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

Its available as a trial download, and is absolutely fantastic!

Gotta agree. This is what I use at work and it's the mutts.

 

[Fishbong]

Another good app is Treesize Pro.

get it here - http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

Its available as a trial download, and is absolutely fantastic!

Gotta agree. This is what I use at work and it's the mutts.

...And solved my problem too. found the file and deleted it. Now for another attempt at creating that DVD...

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

XP creates a system restore point every time something is changed, all the restore points are in :
C:\System Volume Information\ but it is hidden and marked as system. To allow you to see this folder you will have to show all hidden and system files. I once had 30 Gigabytes of restore points. Not anymore!

Also, in the C:\Windows\ folder there's a bunch of hidden system folders named something like:
$MSI31Uninstall_KB893803v2$ These are all the service pack uninstall folders and can be deleted.

Don't forget to purge your Temp files from time to time. You can find the present location of the temp folder by examining the environment variables. Do the following:
Click start and then run, type CMD /K SET and press enter.

Hope that was of help

TTFN,
Clare.

 

[Han]

Another useful tip to locate huge evil temp files that all of a sudden materialize after a certain program has been used, is to use the Windows search function. You can search by date and find all files that have been recently created of modified.

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Another useful tip to locate huge evil temp files that all of a sudden materialize after a certain program has been used, is to use the Windows search function. You can search by date and find all files that have been recently created of modified.

Generally they will be located in the windows temp location, or in the location you chose to unpack the files to, but looking for things recently created is a good idea too .

By the way, another tip is that you can turn off the Windows system restore option. But this does mean that you will not be able to restore if you stuff something up. I prefer to leave it on and to selectively delete restore points by hand.

 

[Axeman]

Another good app is Treesize Pro.

get it here - http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

Its available as a trial download, and is absolutely fantastic!

Gotta agree. This is what I use at work and it's the mutts.

...And solved my problem too. found the file and deleted it. Now for another attempt at creating that DVD...

Cool

Been using it for years. Tried Sequoiaview (scanned mine, and no Trojans found!), but although it looks interesting, I dont like the way it presents stuff. Ah well... to each his/her own..!

 

[nickspoon]

Crap cleaner is great for deleting useless stuff

 

[Han]

Crap cleaner is great for deleting useless stuff

Thx for the tip, I have been looking for something like this...

 

[aapje89]

Crap cleaner is great for deleting useless stuff

yep, been using this for a long time

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