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WB @XInterverse :joy: :hugs:

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44,000 Russian troops dead. That’s horrific. Putin’s war against Russians is deeply sad - who would have thought such a mighty and proud country could be taken over by some little gangster twerp like that and made to look like a little version of North Korea. It’s pitiful.

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Yeah I know. What I’m saying is that I can’t find them because a) I haven’t actively searched for them and b) they could be anywhere.

Yep. Def can see that.

Why did I never think about that? I have probably subconsciously wondered why windows has to restart but never thought of that. I assume that windows slowly updates based off of what files need to keep running until the end and once it comes to that then it will release hold of those files as well and update them before shutting down (or restarting).

Found that for Bluestacks.

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I wanted to emphasize that it is often not a file but a folder :slight_smile:

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OH, never mind.

But still, they can be in many different places.

I have yet to find why 60 GB was taken, however.

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I can connect to your PC via quick assistant (tool from win for this purpose)

and you simply say you need help

I will give you a pin that you will enter

you allow me full access

and you watch what I do


but I think you can find it yourself

first you need to take into account when it happened and what you were doing then

you start by right-clicking on users (dir in C) >properties
and you see how big it is

and then to the program files , and so on.

There are also some tools(programs) that graphically (like a pie) show you what is consuming disk space


Also, in the folder options, it should be enabled to show hidden files

and sometimes enable the display of system files

in order to have a true picture of the situation

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I know that on my old PC, when I went to reinstall Windows a few months ago to clear up some space, I was using CMD and on c:\ I found ~3 files, named as GUIDs with some extension (I don’t remember it). Anyway, each file was about 5gb. I deleted those, restarted the pc and it still worked…

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Yep, done that

I’ve noticed that it generally decreases and then goes up. Likely some telemetry service, like what AMD did with their 14 GB excel file (yeah).

Had to look that up.

So was it a file that your PC didn’t know?

Interesting.

Basically. It was alongside these files (I could see them all):


It isn’t there now (and this is a different PC).

Also, if you use hibernation, the file will take up quite a significant amount of space (it basically is a file of important things in RAM):


So don’t feel ashamed disabling hibernation to get some more space (I think i will now)

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this is the menu on win11 under settings

it’s probably the same on win10

and then click on each one listed to open even more details


@wackyblackie

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this is “temp” dir from win mega update

and when the update is finished, you can delete it freely

check on win update to see if something is waiting for installation or if it reports that there are no new updates !

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also del :slight_smile:

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I think you can delete this too, because I believe there are temp files from the intel driver installation

which were just unpacked there and then installed from there

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if you never use hibernation
but like me, you turn off the computer or send it to sleep mode

you can delete it with this command (CMD as admin )

powercfg -h off

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Oh yeah I guessed it would do such (as it is basically a file to hold your RAM data, like you said). I never used it.

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I love using WinDirStat. Works really well and helps me delete bit pesky files/folders easily.

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That’s what I’m going to use some time to check where all the storage is going.

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The famous words

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I assume you have a lot of pictures in my docs :joy:

I never use those directories in Win to store images, documents, videos, etc.
(there are only some files from programs that like to write there)
instead, I keep everything on a separate disk

because if win goes crazy so it can’t be fixed anymore
then if you don’t have enough knowledge with someone external (lin os)
with whose help you pull it out and save it, you will be left without all your memories

and the backup of sys.partition/s would be unnecessarily large for me

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Nope. Most of it is Adobe and Autodesk files. Everything important is stored on an external drive (Or backed up to one when I am done using the software for the day)

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I forgot that you do 3D printing

search google imgs with this term “barbie trophy wife”

the woman made a whole business out of printing “extra!” parts for the doll :joy:

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Ok, that is a bit…weird

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Haahaa :joy:

but the idea is good

first you start showing certain scenes that talk about feminism, etc.
then you make it so that there is humor in everything
you create a blog or something similar where you post regularly
and then immediately there are customers who will buy one of your “artistic” works
or you simply sell accessories for an ordinary doll…

So you can get some idea how to achieve some material benefit in a “simple” way

You can make it for Batman :smiley_cat:

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I have not touched my machine for over two months now, I really need to get back into it, and my idea list is only growing.

I’ll have more time once I finish the big project I am working on the moment, as well as once I finish updating the TTL site, and finish creating and publishing the rest of the YouTube videos that are half-done.

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