Recovering disk space

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Mike Doyle

I'm thinking I have an offline foldering issue. My winnt
dir is showing its using 6.5 GB, but as I look through the
sub dirs, I see no more then 2 GB of folders and files.
Something is taking up over 3 GB of disk space and I can't
find it. I have searched for files over 1 MB, the math
doesn't add up. It appears to have started with offline
foldering.


Mike
 
Hi Mike,

If the lost disk space can be attributed to "offline foldering", file attributes
(Hidden and System) and NTFS permissions (by default only Administrators have
permission to access the Offline Files folder - C:\WINNT\CSC) can prevent these types
of files from being included in your search. So before trying to locate the lost
disk space log in as a user in the Administrators group and configure Windows
Explorer to include these types of files. For more information see the following
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:

KB303079 - How to Locate and Correct Disk Space Problems on NTFS Volumes
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=303079

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Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 07:11 AM
: I'm thinking I have an offline foldering issue. My winnt
: dir is showing its using 6.5 GB, but as I look through the
: sub dirs, I see no more then 2 GB of folders and files.
: Something is taking up over 3 GB of disk space and I can't
: find it. I have searched for files over 1 MB, the math
: doesn't add up. It appears to have started with offline
: foldering.
 
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