The Little Guy Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 My laptop had about 55 GB of free space on it, then I open it up today, and it says I have 1.23 GB of free space. Where did all that free space go? I haven't downloaded or installed anything big... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177832-lost-free-hard-drive-space/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Maybe you got a bloater virus? You should have seen what happened to poor PC on one of the PC and Mac: Conquest of the OS commercials. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177832-lost-free-hard-drive-space/#findComment-937749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 What does a bloater virus do? Does it make a lot of large random files or something? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177832-lost-free-hard-drive-space/#findComment-937775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 The bloater virus was more or less of a joke, but in all seriousness, your computer has a "bloater" virus or someone decided to copy lots of stuff onto your computer. Or how about a fragmenter virus. Fragments your entire HD. Downloading music? That adds up to alot in a short time. Movies? I'm not you, so I can't view what you did prior to your bloated computer. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177832-lost-free-hard-drive-space/#findComment-937782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 Well, I found out where my HD space went. I downloaded TreeSize, and It analyzes your hard drive and displays your directories by directory size. After the analyzation was finished, I found that 46GB of space was in a Mozilla Firefox profile called puca7p46.default So I deleted that directory (and everything in it), and uninstalled Firefox. Do you think I am now safe from that, and can re-install Firefox? I'm back to 56GB Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177832-lost-free-hard-drive-space/#findComment-940153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Nice, dude, I think you discovered the secerts of infinite hard drive disk space! You started with 55 GB prior to TreeSize, and after, you now have 56 GB! An increase of 1GB! Hmm...well I suppose that still isn't infinite though... Also, thats a pretty efficient program. Only 46 GB to list your directories by directory size. This is how we under appreciate Microsoft. They can list files by directory size (directories included) and it has to be less than what 2 GB (XP) as thats the entire OS! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177832-lost-free-hard-drive-space/#findComment-940172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garethp Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Nice, dude, I think you discovered the secerts of infinite hard drive disk space! You started with 55 GB prior to TreeSize, and after, you now have 56 GB! An increase of 1GB! Hmm...well I suppose that still isn't infinite though... Also, thats a pretty efficient program. Only 46 GB to list your directories by directory size. This is how we under appreciate Microsoft. They can list files by directory size (directories included) and it has to be less than what 2 GB (XP) as thats the entire OS! No, the TreeList program wasn't 46GB! He used the TreeList program to find the folder that had 46GB Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177832-lost-free-hard-drive-space/#findComment-940176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Nice, dude, I think you discovered the secerts of infinite hard drive disk space! You started with 55 GB prior to TreeSize, and after, you now have 56 GB! An increase of 1GB! Hmm...well I suppose that still isn't infinite though... Also, thats a pretty efficient program. Only 46 GB to list your directories by directory size. This is how we under appreciate Microsoft. They can list files by directory size (directories included) and it has to be less than what 2 GB (XP) as thats the entire OS! No, the TreeList program wasn't 46GB! He used the TreeList program to find the folder that had 46GB Oh ha ha. Foolish me. I thought treelist was a mozilla add-on. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/177832-lost-free-hard-drive-space/#findComment-940183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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