where the fck did 7 gigs come from?!?

[thehunter1320]

ok, i have a HDD just for stuff, and it was kinda full, so i bought a new one... i moved the stuff to my local, then moved it back to the other one once it was installed... and 7 gigs of free space came out of nowhere on my local!! i had subtracted it from the original and after i moved the back-up stuff back to my 2nd HDD.... there was an extra 7 gigs from the start.. and i didn't do anything... WTF?!?

 

[ailevation]

Ummm yeah...? Anyways something familiar happened to me before, my C drive capacity is 13 gigs... I used up about 10 gigs, so I was left with about 3 gigs. BAM! One day I had 7 gigs of free-space, nothing was missing either! Weird shit!

 

[Xtasy0]

could be related to file slack, or simply a miscalculation of the free space(it does happen occasionaly, and chkdsk or scandisk usually fixes it)

 

[Direwolf]

*Wonders how often these guys defrag*

 

[thehunter1320]

*Wonders how often these guys defrag*

every other week... :|

 

[Chris D]

I defrag every 6 months :|

I should really do that more often...

 

[Brian Damage]

On my computer: Every month or so.

On my mum's: Can't be arsed.

 

[ewilson248]

most likely causes; old recycled files,old restore points,old user accounts, internet cache, any of these might recently got deleted by you or the system, or
virtual memory is being adjusted by OS.

 

[ewilson248]

setup a schedule using task scheduler to defrag and antivirus about 1 time per month unless you do a lot of adding/deleting/moving files around, then once a week..