ThunderBird

....Hey....does "Lack Expert understanding" mean me? That is great.

I deleted the .vmdk in WinDirStat. Seems too good to be true, but now I have 260 GB free (I cleared out some other stuff too). Uh....yay? I don't know...suddenly its fine. Thanks for all the help. I *think* the problem is fixed now. (still confused on how it happened!?!?) I don't think Wipe Free Space was the cause. If anything happens, I'll be back. Thanks! P.S. - If there are any CCleaner developers here in this thread, I have a suggestion. In the next release of CCleaner, add a warning message to the "This may take a while" dialogue when "Wipe Free Space" is selected. The message would warn the user to NOT cancel the wipe free space when it is running, as to prevent problems. Thanks.

I *just* updated to CCleaner 3.09.... Previously on 3.07.1457 (64 bit) I doubt that will help with anything. But I am posting version number anyways.

I'm back. 1) Thanks for the help. 2) Uh...they are a bit big - I didn't resize when I uploaded to ImageShack...Sorry. 3) No, I don't have 4 Blu-Ray Drives and 1 DVD Drive. I have a laptop with 1 DVD drive, but DAEMON Tools Lite is great 4) I blacked out two file folders in WinDirStat - private folders (but not pr0n, for you dirty minded people Lol JK ) Here is what I had last night after a reboot... http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5533/wtfharddrive.png Here is my NEW CCleaner settings.... http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7433/mynewccleanersettings.png Here is my Computer now... http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6014/mycomputere.png Here is WinDirStat. I still need to look through it. http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/2856/windirstatscreen.png Thanks.

I definitely learned that. Thanks, I'll let you know. I'll be right back - I am going to take some screen shots. ~10 GB free.

I will do so, however, part of me is starting to think it was not WFS... Well I noticed a 250 GB File in the Recycle bin - an old .vmdk. I am running Empty Recycle bin right now. After about an hour I've freed up 14 GB. And CCleaner is still clocking at 0% done - so this may fix it? Maybe it wasn't WFS, just a recycling bin error caused by me canceling...? (suddenly contents becomes SUPER bloated?) In WinDirStat, I see no large "zzz" files, or anything that would have been made by a WFS.... just massive files in the Recycling bin.... I can take a screenshot of WinDirStat if needed? Thanks so much for the help. I don't blame CCleaner - its still a great tool. Just my mistake. I have 100% confidence this is fixable.

Thank you, sir/ma'am. I'll try that and I'll get back to you.

Greetings - First off, CCleaner is a great tool. I believe I have a case of the common "free space suddenly used up" sickness because I didn't let CCleaner finish... Yes, it was totally my fault, I just need help. I made a stupid mistake. Here is the story.... I started CCleaner. For *some reason*, I don't know why, I selected to Wipe Free Space. I am not selling the drive, nor do I have anything to hide. Something possessed me to Wipe Free Space It was also set on Gutmann 35 Pass, so from my understanding, it wreaked havoc on my hard drive's life? After about an hour, CCleaner was still at 15%, emptying the recycle bin. I AM NOT an impatient person, but I honestly thought it was hung up/frozen. I decided to close CCleaner, and then I got the warning message from Windows, "Only 60.0 KB left on your Hard drive". At first I was really confused - 200 GB disappearing in under an hour! I did a Chkdsk, defrag, booted into my Ubuntu Partition (to check if Windows was displaying wrong information!) to no avail. I went over anything I did out-of-the-ordinary that day. Selecting "Wipe Free Space" was the only thing that came up. After some Googling and skimming through these forums, I see that it is a common problem. While I am not 105% sure that canceling the Wipe Free Space is the source of the problem, that seems to be the only plausible culprit. But, I can't seem to find the "ZZZZZZZ" folders created by CCleaner. There is no new, odly named directory under C:, and I can't find anything through search. Please help? I have an Ubuntu Linux 11.04 partition, and some Ubuntu and PartedMagic LiveCDs at my disposal. I need to fix this problem! Thanks so much, ThunderBird -------------------------------------------- 500 GB HDD (more like 480 GB....) 421 GB Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit ~200 GB free before I ran CCleaner ~1 GB free after I canceled CCleaner 60 GB Ubuntu 11.04 (32 bit...I think? I'll check later, if needed) Other, small recovery, utility partition(s), etc. If you need to know more detailed information, please let me know.