5 Unexpected Reasons Your Computer's Storage is Full

[@ThioJoe]

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[@sobot_]

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[@OpinionatedBastage]

One potential correction... Recycle Bin max size: I believe it doesn't refer to the max size of an individual file necessarily. When deleting a group of files, where no individual file exceeds that max size, but the total size of the group exceeds the max, I receive that message asking if I wish to permanently delete.

[@gurillamann6534]

Ok

[@francescaperry8721]

can this be used on firefox too?

[@raznemon]

rip firefox users :(

[@BjornzzYT]

My storage kept getting full every week, so I had to delete something every time. Turns out DaVinci Resolve used hundreds of gigabytes to store render cache. Thank you for this video

[@bruph6984]

where is the cache stored?

[@M4rceI]

@BrUpH 1: open a project in DaVinci Resolve 2: go to options 3: click on "Master Settings" 4: scroll to the bottom 5: Look at "Working Folders". There you can find the file locations.

[@henok_gk]

Not many would understand or care but I really appreciate that dark souls lore satire in the beginning xD

[@H0LLEELUYER]

I don’t understand but i do care

[@zhila5958]

@lI Sloth II to be fair. that’s what makes it fun for me. haha

[@mzark5888]

@@zhila5958 Indeed.

[@MegasXLR]

Also a worthy candidate: the AMD folder in C:. I freed up 20gb by deleting old updates which for some reason were still there.

[@esolangsemerald6394]

Where would old updates be found?

[@MegasXLR]

@@esolangsemerald6394 for me they were literally under C:\AMD. Deleted all except the latest Adrenalin.

[@lukeson8934]

omg thank you! over 40gb 😂

[@BjornzzYT]

Hey, I remember you from one of my videos. "A surprise to be sure but a welcome one"

[@erina8295]

can i delete my amd64 folders under C:/windows/winSxS on my pc 10? i have sooo much all the way from 2019 but unsure if I should delete those

[@stephentidwell2244]

You should really mention about apps installed from the windows store as it doesn’t show inside of windirstat until you select show unknown space and even then it doesn’t show what is using the space but I’ve found that it is at least something to check if anyone has been installing large games in the windows store. Normally I’d go to the usual place in windows to remove or even possibly move such programs. Though I find it funny how windirstat gets all this wrong as it isn’t sure what it is because of its location on the drive. I remember that there was another program similar to windirstat that would show unknown files but can’t recall what it was called

[@dave6593]

WizTree?

[@anodyneliniment2326]

Wiztree

[@itzRyzen]

spacesniffer ?

[@lecoccslayer]

Son can i delete your 500GB Homework folder, my storage is low

[@CoderIQBE]

There is no way you just made this video! Last night my harddrive filled up completely, that can't be a coincidence!

[@ThioJoe]

I knew 🧐

[@pog16384]

@@ThioJoe wow you’re a god

[@EricChiEric]

@@pog16384No he just works at amazon and checked the secret cameras

[@Glaxes]

Another thing I think should be mentioned Both old windows versions and temporary files for programs like after effects and photoshop, The auto delete feature on ae doesnt work very well and ps doesn't delete the temp files sometimes when you close the application. Which both can add up over time

[@ShhheilaASMR]

How do you find and delete them?

[@pyp2205]

Well this was useful to know. Like I have a Laptop with almost 1TB of storage. And I saved about 200 GB or more by moving my games into a 4TB portable hard drive. I don't regret doing it, because I saved a lot of space. Since I have a lot of storage on the drive, I also moved my virtual machines there as well.

[@asadfarraj]

Another thing which takes up a lot of storage space, is Windows update. The old updates are stored for quite long, and many of them can take up as much storage as the OS in total itself. If you run StorageSense, it shouldn't be much of a problem, but you can always clear out old Windows update files if you need storage in a pinch.

[@flo_arki]

Interesting ! From my own experience : deleting old Unreal Engine projects and Unreal engine cache can save you Gbs. Also, if you use a video editing program, it will create a lot of temporairy media files that you can delete once the editing is done :)

[@Digital-Dan]

If you could do the same sort of analysis for main memory, I would be eternally (at least millennia) grateful. What fills memory on my system, without releasing it when I close all apps, seems to be in system memory, where attributing it to any one program is difficult. There are utilities that can free a bit of it, but over the course of a few days, I get to a point where I'm swapping all the time. Any help appreciated.

[@Strike105X4FunGaming]

Unless you have some adware/malware on PC That's windows caching in on you most used programs and files, its a normal process, if you end up running something more taxing like a game it will clear the memory of those files to make room, but otherwise it keeps them loaded/cached so you can access your most used stuff faster.

[@matthewparker9276]

Windows allocates unused ram to preload frequently used files, but if the computer is having to use the pagefile more the longer it is on, it sounds like a memory leek.

[@MLGaeming]

RAMMap for windows is a really good tool for analyzing your memory in-depth, it gives way more info than something like task manager

[@LucyKosaki]

For me the main culprits are Avast and some browsers like opera or firefox. If your ram frequently runs full due to a lot of browser tabs or multiple games open for example, Avast or browsers may start to malfunction and leaking ram. When I have my PC running for extended periods of time (like multiple weeks) and the ram caps too often, I need to restart, because even when closing all games an programs, it will still be at for example 5/8GB used and the resource manager showing Avast or browser processes taking up most of it.

[@ChibiKeruchan]

It more likely chrome.

[@dm12e]

Damm perfect timing I only have 22.7 out of 222GB free (I only have a C drive)

[@pgplaysvidya]

This is oddly specific but if you have plex, there is an option to enable thumbnails that appear when you mouse around the timeline (like how on YT you can do this if you mouse around the timeline on the video) this creates a huge amount of thumbnail images on your plex folder and can get really big really fast, especially for large plex databases. I ran into this problem randomly and it took a while to undo (didn't want to just randomly delete a plex subfolder in case i delete something i wanted to keep)

[@kingssman2]

For those with lots of RAM, the windows pagefile will create a reserve near equal to the amount of ram you have. Same goes for the Hibernation file. So if you have 32GB of RAM, you might have a 32GB page file AND a 32GB hibernation file.

[@Lentrail]

I got 128😂

[@averagerobloxsimp]

@@Lentrail Did i ask?

[@MonocledTree997]

@@averagerobloxsimp u mad?

[@averagerobloxsimp]

@@MonocledTree997 yes

[@MonocledTree997]

@@averagerobloxsimp lmfao alr amigo

[@karlrovey]

Who gets rid of games after beating them? Most people replay them.

[@pog16384]

Uhh me but that’s only angry birds

[@kotoriminami8296]

Treesize is a banger program too, I think it might be a bit faster from what I've heard(?)

[@ThioJoe]

Yea I have used that too, but to be honest I like the way WinDirStat visualizes the data much better than Treesize

[@OttoLP]

@@ThioJoe What about wiztree?

[@kotoriminami8296]

@@ThioJoe Yea each to their own, keep up the good content my guy :)

[@mirror1766]

@@OttoLP Wiztree gives similar function to windirstat but has much faster NTFS scanning stage. If I recall, you cannot click on categories of file types on the right to view where they are scattered on the graphical map. Their 'donate' button that occasionally starts spazzing out until you mouse over it is obnoxious.

[@KingChristensen]

It's like the universe is trying to tell me something

[@xenajin6827]

When you use linux but you still watched😅

[@nischaln.i.c]

*As soon as I opened the comments section to comment it showed the guidelines of ThioJoe!!!* That's new and I felt it very useful for commenters, As they can never misunderstand any part of the video that you explained!!!! 🔥🔥🔥 PS: I think no one noticed that!!!

[@SinghTejas]

I did

[@realooffyy]

I did

[@Roy28_29]

not new ur just overhyping the feature for likes

[@maxthewincat]

Another thing that may take lot of space are Minecraft worlds, if you make too many of them

[@pog16384]

I see you are a man of culture as well

[@muneeblone2740]

Dark Souls? No dad it's copies of all available Elder Scrolls lore 🙄

[@windowsfan95]

You should also have mentioned the windows.old folder which contains old versions of windows. This folder gets created after you upgrade to a new version of Windows.

[@dave6593]

does it stay after a factory restart?

[@Fearagen]

That folder clears itself after 10 days of initial feature/major update. Even after the upgrade to 11. Wouldn't be a permanent waste of space for long if you didn't bother to delete it via disk cleanup.

[@CamronRaihani]

good job! your monologue is just the right tempo, your visualizations are timely and clean, even your studio background is Technicolor! add to these your clear voice and good looks! and it's easy to justify your large subscriber base.

[@skaltaccount]

2:42 "Yours probably isn't that big, but still, it might be bigger than you think." wise words.

[@Strike105X4FunGaming]

There is something you forgot regarding this, which tends to happen a lot, hibernation files + page file system, if you for instance pair 16Gb+ of ram with a 120Gb ssd your disk space will dissapear awfully fast, i had seen this happen so many times... including myself, in which case its best to dissable hibernation and reduce the page file to about 4096- 8192 MB, i said reduce not dissable because while some people might get away with it, dissabling page file can lead to issues with different software and games, same is also the case for reducing the pagefile under 4096MB any less then that can cause issues as well with extended software usage.

[@bernardonegri5416]

Fully disabling page file is a very bad idea. I have 8GB of RAM and when I disabled it, the browser wouldn't open up.

[@Strike105X4FunGaming]

@@bernardonegri5416 Yup, Photoshop starts bugging of without it as well, there are apparently though some people who get away with it though, but even so i would never recommend dissabling, i mean 4 to 8 gb of hdd space really ain't unbearable and you know that everything is going to work.

[@ElZamo92]

I once had my OS SSD full for some reason, So I scanned It and it showed a big chunk that was literally 150GB of NOTHING… but it fixed itself after the scan, so yay?

[@gameandelectronic8369]

I have a 500gb ssd, it show i only have 189gb left on file explorer, but when i check WinDirStat i only used 200gb on my ssd, can someone explain it to me pls :)

[@somehick6728]

WinDirStat helped me out so so much. i didnt know but FiveM was using 100 gigs and aslo a game i dont even have bc i refunded it on steam was like 100 gigs aswell. thanks bro

[@BattleMachines]

3:40 I think it's pretty save to delete whole temp. I'm doing it since W95 and never got a problem. Actually used files can't be deleted anyway so it's safe to select all and delete it.

[@mysheus]

Thumbnaul is incorrect. It should say "0 bytes free of 930 GB NTFS" without bar.

[@yelir64]

God, just hate it when my son downloads 400 gigabytes of Dark Souls lore videos on to my laptop. It hurts, because it's relatable. :(

[@steelfalconx2000]

You probably have battlefield installed. Immediately maxes out your hard drive regardless of size.

[@noam15A]

If you have an AMD graphics card, your AMD folder in the C drive could take a lot of space, it's all just old installers

[@mikeroberts4015]

which should i delete?

[@noam15A]

@@mikeroberts4015 You can delete all of them honestly. You can also just keep the latest installer and delete the old ones

[@Yas_Sin]

Speaking of storage, there's something in my computer that i haven't been able to explain, i lose space on the C drive every now and then due to things i can't identify, but when i launch the CHKDSK command, i immediatly gain it back, keep in mind that sometimes i have to use the command 2 or 3 times ! any ideas ?

[@DUMBDUDEGAMER]

Chkdsk checks your disk for errors and tries to fix them so if it's an old drive, especially an old hard drive, it may be on its way out. Try checking the smart indicators for that drive. Strange problem though. It might also be windows indexing as windows might reindex every time you check the disk.

[@ThioJoe]

Hm that is really odd. Well WinDirStat is probably the way to go to see what's taking up the space. Not sure why chkdsk would be freeing it up though, unless certain sectors are being marked as bad, and thus not being used by the OS. If that's the case, you probably want to replace that drive.

[@vermokarlo]

@@ThioJoe hi

[@naga_serpentis]

@@ThioJoe hai dere :3

[@aashd9245]

The hard disk might be corrupt or some folder names might be illegal in Windows. The fact that it keeps showing storage full is strange. You can try running an antivirus scan or replacing the hard disk if it is corrupt.

[@PhysicsOperator]

Please replace windirstat with wiztree it's ui is much nicer imo and its way faster plz take a look

[@moisesabuel3836]

You can also install deep freeze. It wont save anything after you restart your PC. Not unless you disable it.

[@skorpion1298]

Install Windows and everything else to RAM also works :)

[@donaciuxx]

what about deep frying the storage?

[@srpenguinbr]

Then you realize it saves this setting in a file lol

[@aldyreal]

@@skorpion1298 lmao, this reminds me of that enderman's video

[@electricz3045]

WinDirStat was a really good suggestion. It helped me to delete a Microsoft access database file i don't needed anymore what somehow had a size from 70GB i just deleted. I don't know why it took up so much space from my 125GB SSD i only use for Windows.

[@JoJo-xh4dk]

guys i know its late but dont use windirstat its too old and slow use WizTree instead :)

[@itz_pew]

make a video about how tou can free up storage

[@ThioJoe]

Delete stuff

[@moisesabuel3836]

Hold shift then press delete then press enter. Shortest way for your files that you want to delete are not GOING to recycle bin.

[@johnnystaccata]

What I've encountered is the disk allocation error, corrected by . . . CHKDSK C: /F

[@cappercapsen]

Guardio is a trojan, thoughts? did i read fake reviews?

[@nikhil_b_walker_r34]

Wiztree is better than this..

[@boblangill6209]

If you're someone who hangs on to your computer for a long time, you might experience a gradual nibbling of your free space even though you're actively managing your contents. Some time back, I discovered that my computer had multiple copies of system dll files in different winSXS folders. At the time, this appeared to be Microsoft's way of dealing with dll hell where applications required a certain version of a particular dll to function. As an application was upgraded and used a different version, the old dll wasn't deleted because other programs might still be using it. The advice Microsoft offered was that if you deleted one of the older copies, it might have no effect, or an application could lose some or all functions. As I said, the result of this was a small steady nibbling, rather that catastrophic loss. Since the cure could be worse than the disease, I just ignored it. Someone brighter than me probably found a solution.

[@KangJangkrik]

As linux user, the most significant cause of full storage is: sudo dd if=sdcard.img of=sdb Note that it supposed to be /dev/sdb, not sdb

[@harshkhanna1628]

virtual memory can also take huge space

[@GifyTheOld]

Hey, 5:40 that Disk Cleanup is super, I have many Disks I used on older Win instalations, and I probably sometimes left recyle bin full, and on new instance it is invisible, so 60GB on one disk just like that. Nice :D

[@revoconner]

I was using duplicati to backup my drives to webdav for megasync. All the files that were created were being stored in the temp folder in C. My 2tb nvme ssd was trying to store about 5 tb of data in the temp folder

[@robertcioveie8113]

Thought he'd talk about that weird windows bug when you create a large file the disk you putt it on wouldn't report the right used space value, like copiing a 10GB file onto your D:/ drive but the driver says it took 40GB, but fixes itself when you reboot.

[@stephensnell1379]

You mean copying

[@robertcioveie8113]

Could you make a tutorial on how to remove files with ilegal names on windows? I accidebtly extracted some files from very old java code and now I've got aux.xx files stuck on my computer.

[@a.yashwanth]

you forgot about windows.old folder which you do after you did a major windows update.

[@maxthewincat]

I Guess this one don't fall into "unexpected" because you can delete that with Disk cleanup utility

[@nogoat]

@@maxthewincat Also, it shouldn't matter since Windows usually deletes it after 10 days.

[@monsourtecson4582]

If I use data from cloud using internet, the gadgets of the persons around me are being tracked and alarmed.

[@oldgamer1330]

Hi, can you help me, I have 111 gb C drive SSD with a total of 68.5 gb used space showing in Windstat which should have 42.5 gb free space, but my PC is only showing 11 gb free so where can the 31.5 gb be at.Thanks.

[@trallfraz]

pretty dumb. my windows 10 looks nothing like your windows 10, ASSUMING that's what you're using, as you give no directions other than, I assume you're in "my computer"

[@alimontasir439]

Hello dear friend. How are you? I'm from Morocco and I don't know English. I'm sorry. I am facing a problem with my computer Windows 7 32-bit version (2009). When I open the device a black screen pops up and at the same time it works, but I do not know what to do if you help me, I am grateful to you and thank you very much.

[@itzspikerobloxvideos3678]

Bro let me tell you something funni. Suddenly my computer was so slow and I didn't know the cause I just watched some vids. But the whole time the problem was that the CPU fan was blocked by a wire. I took off that wire and my PC just sped up like crazy 200 fps+

[@fenttweaker_12]

Hi

[@Random-ck3hf]

Why does compression require 2x the space? If I transfer a 50GB game to a drive with compression enabled, these 50 turn into 100 at the end. ??? Is it a windows 10 bug that remains to this day? This did not happen in Windows 8.1.

[@Rex-The-Wolf]

Use shutup 10 to voilently execute the windows store from automaticaly installing advertized apps on your computer, i hate microsoft doing that! I freed up apx 15 gb doing that and removing all that trash! Curse microsoft from doing that

[@Tubeytime]

Extremely helpful video. When it comes to personal computing, reclaiming space and garbage collection is not nearly talked about enough.

[@naga_serpentis]

I know why my 128GB Windows 10 partition is so full all the time. VRChat’s download cache.

[@tbnrcoding4404]

The storage: FULL ThioJoe: Download WinDirStat because that I want your computer to crash

[@barrytube2860]

Hey thio I just bought a laptop from someone and he forgot to format it but when I search in the folders and I found nothing but my space is still full and I installed cc cleaner it says all the space is full but when I try to delete the files it shows me and error and it won't delete the files

[@davldbradley6073]

Have you done everything on Windows 8.1, I have an old Gateway I think that's ASUS. Thanks Dave Subbed 👍

[@viewera]

I have occasionally clicked on some shady websites and they always ask to enable notifications, why is this? I couldn't find a clear answer on the internet.

[@Roy28_29]

to spam you with ads NEVER enable notifications if its a shady website and there's no reason for the website to use notifications

[@ARandomInternetUser08]

I just always delete everything in every folder that opens when I type %temp%, Temp, or prefetch into Run. It's never actually messed anything up.

[@zifebort8245]

Once my computer storage is full. I just delete some temp file and empty the recycle bin. It doesnt really work actually.. But after I use my computer for sometimes and ignore that, I check again and it's not full again lol (although the space still small)

[@SirenGlitch]

You can also explore the files on your PC and see the storage with treesize

[@Ankky22]

my C drive is full because there is a lot of softwares that don't allow you to pick the install location, which is annoying because I have TBs of free space on many other drives...

[@I_Do_Not_Know_What_I_am_Doing]

Is there a successor to WINDIRSTAT that has increased functionality, while still being free?

[@hentosama]

i just deleted a customers AMD root folder that was 32gb big lol old driver packs

[@TheDotYT]

Also system page files ,that will take up space. My device had a page file size of 7gigs

[@MET87]

I don't know who does your covers but when you have 0 GB on your drive, you no longer have a working system. You system will halt.

[@liracheer1433]

i know why my hard drive hates me. "Sims 4 Alpha CC" trust me, custom content makes my game lag a bunch but idc

[@The_Mirror994]

My Computer has SSD and 197 GB Free

[@MadHeaven_YT]

So what I do to save my precious 64gig hdd is to cut every files in the downloads folder and paste it to an external hard drive so that I can reinstall my necessary apps and files whenever I need. Pro tip turn off file history if it is taking too much space.

[@darklight8515]

thank you my bro, i had 170GB of gay furry porn and i didnt knew that it even exist, love u!!

[@MrRadsVarietyChannel]

This is my drive rn, but im getting a new ssd uograde soon, so I can move all my games to that drive

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Other causes I hate are programs that create duplicates of files in temporary directories that the user doesn't normally know about and that serve no purpose. These include files extracted from compressed archives using certain archive programs such as WinRAR, and files migrated from a guest virtual machine to the host system such as with VirtualBox.

[@Kris_M]

So 3 of those come down to having the Windows virus on your computer.

[@jasons8479]

Why does Windows call it a Recycle Bin instead of a Trash Can? I mean the files don't actually get reused. I guess you could say that it lets space get reused, but so does a trash can.

[@yousefslimani99]

By The Way if I Restarted my Computer those captivities has ben stored by unknown reason is now gone and then they free my storage space!!

[@02k9]

@2:41 "So yours probably isn't that big, but still, it might be bigger"......Pause

[@Thomario20]

Once i saw a picture of someone trashing the temp folder on a work computer and it tool like what 231GB of storage

[@yktv_edotty]

thanks for helping i found out why my storage wasnt going away. the recycling bin. im also going to delete every apps setup that i havnt even installed yet. i have all these random games that i havnt installed yet.

[@janekverhulst8693]

Ok my c drive is almost full bc its 128 gb ssd and i have nothing but windows and Minecraft

[@Slender-the-Blender]

As soon as I saw the Recycle Bin section I immediately said "that's the dumbest thing ever" and immediately changed it from 2,500MB to 250MB.

[@Be_Deep_In_Thoughts]

Oh. Got a glimse of Xamarin! Could you please make tutorials for xamarin coding?

[@goblinbrewdaddys]

for anyone complaining that its dubbed you can watch this exact same idea Subbed by looking up naruto Kai and going to reddit

[@grzegorzmajewski591]

U mnie jest jeszcze gorzej nie mogę usunąć fałszywego konta logowania Microsoft o nazwie Administrator. Nawet Microsoft nie umiem tego usunąć.

[@hentosama]

symlink is a godsend for stupid programs wont install elsewhere

[@AmyraCarter]

Symlinks are great. I'm glad I know how to use them.

[@Willchannel90]

Cloud is best for backup datas. Even internet checks for storage.

[@UmVtCg]

You better name Windirstat, edit: YEAH YOU DID FIRST OFF!

[@FunctionGermany]

thio is essentially creating a modern video documentation for advanced users, and i'm very grateful for it

[@arthurb.b.767]

A bunch of old AMD drivers were occupying 10 GB. I don't know why AMD Radeon software doesn't delete them when updating the driver😕.

[@mikeroberts4015]

which ones should i delete?

[@oliverer3]

WinDirStat is the best piece of software ever written I swear I've been using it for so many years and it's just as good as the first time.

[@clivethereddevil3178]

I went to bed last night with 21 gig free on my c drive. I now have 10.8 and done nothing but general browsing.

[@trevsguitarstash4967]

immediately started this video by pressing windows key + E and checking my pc lol