Used space went down by 10gb after using DF. Is this normal?

Defraggler
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I have a 250gb hard drive, essentially 160 though because the rest is on other partitions. Before running Defraggler I had 62 gb used, and 98gb free. Now after running it I have 52gb used and 108gb free. Is this supposed to happen.

I've had this computer for a year and a half, and only ran windows defrag 2 or 3 times. I'm a medium user, I use my computer a lot but usually just browse web. The last time I defraged was a few months ago, then used defraggler for the first time yesterday. I was browsing the web and saved 2 pictures yesterday while it was defragging. It's an emachines 250 netbook.

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http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=35459

the answer was stickied

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http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=35459

the answer was stickied

Yes I saw that but for me it's the opposite. Free space went up and used space went down.

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wait? you're complaining you have more space?

before we go too far into the woods, open your restore points and see if you still have some

edit "complaining" was tongue and check

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Did you lose 10GB of Restore Points?

Ninja'd again. :)

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am ninja >:-D

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am ninja >:-D

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WTF 10GBS?! I HAD 10 GBS OF RESTORE POINTS?! Wow lol

Well thanks, was worried I may have lost some data since I was using my computer while defragging. What does VSS stand for anyway? And what is VSS?

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In Vista I've had points 750MB to 1GB each.

VSS is Volume Shadow Copy Service.

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ok so now we seem to know that it was restore points, or at least I assume you were confirming and not just taking our suggestion as gospel, it seems what happened was during defrag your drive ran out of space and deleted restore points.

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Everything runs fines, no corrupted programs or missing folders. The fact that my points are gone I'm guessing it had to have been them.