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re: Lost space on disk Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 11:11 am Posted by Special-K (582 messages posted) Paging file? I rarely return to a problem once I've answered it so make sure you clearly define what the trouble is. On Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10:09 am, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote: >I open C: drive to Documents and Settings(490MB). I open this folder and get one >of the folders Reuven(464MB).On opening this folder I get- Cookies(32KB), Desktop(56MB), >Favorites(1KB), My Doc(50MB), ntuserDat.file(6mb). These files total 113MB, but the >size of the folder Reuven in which they are is 464MB. A difference of 350 MB. What >has happened to the missing space? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Lost space on disk Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 11:24 am Posted by Reuven Ben-Daniel (91 messages posted) I have given all the information. There is no trouble, all I want to know is what has happened to the missing space, and can it be retrieved? How can I tell if it is a paging file, which of course cannot be altered. On Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 11:11 am, Special-K wrote: >Paging file? > > > > I rarely return to a problem once I've answered it so make sure you clearly define >what the trouble is. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Lost space on disk Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 11:53 am Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) Do you have you Computer set to show Hidden files? Are any of the Files Compressed? Depending on how you access a file it will display the compressed size or the Un-compressed size. You could also be seeing the Difference between the Actual size and the Size on Disk. Your HDD cluster size (set on Install) could explain the difference. Files always claim the Whole Cluster. The Difference between Actual file size and size on Disk is called Slack Space.(google) Have you used Disk Cleanup lately? Is the Compress old files option Checked? How HDD's store info. http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/clusters.htm Seems like you are trying to do something you are not asking about directly. What are you trying to accomplish? BW On Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10:09 am, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote: >I open C: drive to Documents and Settings(490MB). I open this folder and get one >of the folders Reuven(464MB).On opening this folder I get- Cookies(32KB), Desktop(56MB), >Favorites(1KB), My Doc(50MB), ntuserDat.file(6mb). These files total 113MB, but the >size of the folder Reuven in which they are is 464MB. A difference of 350 MB. What >has happened to the missing space? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Lost space on disk Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 12:12 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) The page file will not be in that folder. Your question is a common one. To best get an idea of what's using your disk space, you need a better file management tool than Explorer. One such freeware tool that may be of help is called Treeview, another is SequoiaView. On Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 11:24 am, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote: >I have given all the information. There is no trouble, all I want to know is what >has happened to the missing space, and can it be retrieved? How can I tell if it >is a paging file, which of course cannot be altered. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Lost space on disk Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) Most the rest will be in the Application Data Folder. It is Hidden [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum