What is filling up my harddrive?

[switchthreesixty]

I only have 5 gigs free.
I have all media, photos, music, videos, documents on skydive (Online-Only).
So why do have such little free space?
Can anyone point me in the right direction to figure it out?

(I have very few apps)

 

[Joozeppi]

Spotify?

 

[Laura Knotek]

How big is the SSD on your Surface?

 

[switchthreesixty]

I don't think it is any app. I don't have Spotify.
I have Plex , but I don't think I have any media on the surface device.

 

[switchthreesixty]

32 gig.
Microsoft says I should have 16 gig free. So where is the 9 gigs? Very odd

 

[onlysublime]

what about your apps? apps and apps data and games can take a lot.

 

[WillysJeepMan]

Do you use Dropbox? If so, do you often access dropbox files on your Surface? If yes, then it is quite possible that it is the dropbox cache that is the culprit. I have a bunch of plain text .txt files with various notes on dropbox that I access from various devices. I was quite surprised to see that whenever the dropbox client for RT downloads a file, it creates a new file rather than overlaying the file if the file already exists.

Not a problem for text files that are a few KB, but download a 300MB video multiple times and that space adds up.

 

[switchthreesixty]

It could be drop box. How do I clear the cache ?

 

[WillysJeepMan]

On my Surface 2,
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\C27EB4BA.Dropbox_xbfy0k16fey96\


I suggest looking in that Packages folder for something that contains "Dropbox" in the name....

 

[WillysJeepMan]

Another place to look for space hogs:

C:\Windows\Installer

I had a few GB's taken up by old installers

 

[switchthreesixty]

I don't have a folder labeled appdata.
Is it hidden?
I just have the normal media folders like music and downloads folder.

Also, the folder installer doesn't appear under c/windows either

 

[Guzzler3]

Ok, try this.

Desktop, Windows Explorer, long click on C:, properties, Disk Clean up, Clean up system files (button at the bottom), select everything, OK.

You might get back a nice amount of disk space.

 

[WillysJeepMan]

I don't have a folder labeled appdata.
Is it hidden?
I just have the normal media folders like music and downloads folder.

Also, the folder installer doesn't appear under c/windows either

Yes the folders are hidden. Within Windows Explorer (on the desktop), select "View" and check off the box that says "show hidden".