- Jan 26, 2011
- 48
- 0
- 0
[FONT="]Like many of you who were relatively early SSD adopters on a budget, I opted for the Kingston [FONT="]SNV125 40GB about a year and a half ago. It was a nice boost for my aging C2D system from ’06 which is still kicking today.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]Obviously w/ only 40GB, space is at a premium. I basically only have win7 64, ms office, and a bunch of standard utilities, with all data/games on separate spindle drives. As of a week ago, I noticed that my normally comfortable 8-10 GB of free space had been reduced to a mere 500 MB. What gives
[/FONT]
[FONT="]After checking the usual suspects (shadow copies, Picasa thumbnails, etc.) I was at a loss. Win Dir Stat was only partially helpful, showing windows taking up its customary 16GB. But all the data did not add up to ~37GB like it should, but was 13GB short. So I enabled “show unknown” and sure enough there was 13GB of something on there. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Running Win Dir Stat as an admin is key, because that showed me that the unknown was actually known and that the culprit was ~800,000 jpg files! A ton of pr0n you say? Wrong! Stupid Windows Media Player had amassed album art from virtually every album ever. Of course disabling album art did not delete the files—nice one, MS. After finding and changing permissions on all 800K files, I was able to delete them and live happily ever after. I hope you have enjoyed my story of triumph and will find this info useful if you find your precious HD space mysteriously disappearing. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Obviously w/ only 40GB, space is at a premium. I basically only have win7 64, ms office, and a bunch of standard utilities, with all data/games on separate spindle drives. As of a week ago, I noticed that my normally comfortable 8-10 GB of free space had been reduced to a mere 500 MB. What gives
[/FONT]
[FONT="]After checking the usual suspects (shadow copies, Picasa thumbnails, etc.) I was at a loss. Win Dir Stat was only partially helpful, showing windows taking up its customary 16GB. But all the data did not add up to ~37GB like it should, but was 13GB short. So I enabled “show unknown” and sure enough there was 13GB of something on there. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Running Win Dir Stat as an admin is key, because that showed me that the unknown was actually known and that the culprit was ~800,000 jpg files! A ton of pr0n you say? Wrong! Stupid Windows Media Player had amassed album art from virtually every album ever. Of course disabling album art did not delete the files—nice one, MS. After finding and changing permissions on all 800K files, I was able to delete them and live happily ever after. I hope you have enjoyed my story of triumph and will find this info useful if you find your precious HD space mysteriously disappearing. [/FONT]
Last edited: