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Recycled items not deleted from drive

  • 06-05-2012 8:44pm
    #1
    M5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭


    I have a 1tb drive with about 400gb of photos
    Copied them all to a 500gb drive but left the old folder on the 1tb
    Then worked on them for a while
    Decided to go back to the 1tb drive
    Renamed the old folder on the 1tb "photos (old)"
    Copied over the photos from the 500gb
    Deleted the old folder
    1 now have 100gb free and my photos folder is 810GB????
    My photos just doubled in size?


    Anyone any idea what happened here? The folders do not contain double file names and i cant find any huge files


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  • #2
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    M5 wrote: »
    I have a 1tb drive with about 400gb of photos
    Copied them all to a 500gb drive but left the old folder on the 1tb
    Then worked on them for a while
    Decided to go back to the 1tb drive
    Renamed the old folder on the 1tb "photos (old)"
    Copied over the photos from the 500gb
    Deleted the old folder
    1 now have 100gb free and my photos folder is 810GB????
    My photos just doubled in size?


    Anyone any idea what happened here? The folders do not contain double file names and i cant find any huge files

    The space from the deleted folder is probably being reserved by the recycle bin. Emptying this should do the trick.


  • #3
    M5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    marco_polo wrote: »
    The space from the deleted folder is probably being reserved by the recycle bin. Emptying this should do the trick.

    Sorry, forgot to mention i did that

    The actual folder has doubled in size its now 810GB but it came off a 500gb drive


  • #4
    M5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    Found the problem

    Went through all the subfolders one by one, there was one named videos with all my photos in it 3 folder layers away from root. Confused as to how that happened but its sorted


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