Today I was running CCleaner and wiped all of my free space. I thought this would clear up some old files up but instead filled my local disk with tons of GB of who knows what. I panicked and stopped the command and used a restore point, but the space is still full of... who knows what. How do you undo this?
. . . I panicked and stopped the command . . .
Aborting wipe prevents CC from deleting the cache.
If rebooting computer does not retrieve the lost space, delete this folder or file . . .
Hey,
A reboot didn't retrieve the lost space, and I don't have a partition, where can I find the file/folder at?
Hey,
A reboot didn't retrieve the lost space, and I don't have a partition, where can I find the file/folder at?
Every lettered drive is a partition, however the file/folder will be at the root (highest level, in no folders) of the drive you wiped
Immediately after I stopped the scan, I loaded an old restore point, would that interfere somehow? Because I am still unable to find the folders, but I feel I'm probably just incompetent.
A while back, I wiped the free space on my hard drive. At the time, I hadn't known that CCleaner filled the space with files, then deleted them once it was done. In the middle of the process I stopped the command, then used a restore point. The space is still filled after restarting and shutting down. I'm unable to find the zzzzzzz.zzz files no matter where I look. They are supposed to be at the top of whatever drive I wiped, but I can't seem to find them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Locations: folders in C:
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Try enabling the view of 'Hidden Files and Folders' in Windows.
Alternatively allowing CCleaner to finish the Wipe Free Space should remove them.
(pre-merge reply) Try to rerun the wipe freespace and allow it to finish ccleaner should cleanup itself doing this (I don't use the WFS feature so I don't have 1st hand experience with this solution but I believe that is the correct method for your issue).
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Rerunning CCleaner didn't help. I enabled 'Hidden Files and Folders but to no prevail I cannot find the files.
Download TreeSize Free or WinDirStat to point you in the direction of the largest folders on your machine
Download TreeSize Free or WinDirStat to point you in the direction of the largest folders on your machine
I am so grateful, for you and everyone else's help. TreeSize helped me get my space back and I am so happy.
Just to know, where did treesize find the file?