Windows 10 eating up my SSD space

[Bubbaloo - Reusable P Cup 3039]

Hey NERDS (starting with @McDili ). Lately my computer has been randomly eating SSD space. I can start with 80GB and 2 hours later it is screaming "ran out of disk space".  I thought it was some sort of shitty program (scam) telling me my memory was low but I looked into my actual drive and I was down to 80MB and sometimes 0 bytes!.  Anyone know what gives? 

I have done a lot of research but I just gave up, haven't found anything helpful.  Maybe time to just reformat my C: drive? 

[Guest]

Really have no clue what's goin on there. Only thing I know that does that is when recording shit.

[Bubbaloo - Reusable P Cup 3039]

Hmm... well I use my EXTERNAL for recording. Sigh. I wonder what it could be. 

[KrispyK 22]

Take a screenshot of your program files directory and the I think (64x) one.

Not at my computer

[Jax 30]

Download windirstat and it makes a visual picture of what's eating up space

[KrispyK 22]

Or just sort by file size

 

[drraison 36]

Yeah what Krispy said. I've had this exact same issue before. My available disk size continued to decrease. I ended up sorting through the different folders on my drive to figure out where the files were loading into. (I think this issue is to do with some background application being stuck on a download and downloading the same corrupted files over and over again.) Check your task manager to see what apps you are running that might be updating aswell. Nvidia exp/ spotify / discord / etc.

I was led into my downloads folder and after deleting select few it stopped. My advise is to check the modified date to figure out what is being downloaded. 

Edited June 7, 2018 by drraison

[KrispyK 22]

Also purge you downloads directory, it adds up.

Also try CCLEANER

(It was hacked awhile ago look up to see if it's Gucci before you download)

[drraison 36]

3 hours ago, KrispyK said:

Also purge you downloads directory, it adds up.

Also try CCLEANER

(It was hacked awhile ago look up to see if it's Gucci before you download)

Mind informing what hack before I delete my 50 terabytes of rabbit porn. 

[Moose 316]

Do a defrag, fixed my problem

[Fat Clemenza 1722]

1 minute ago, Moose said:

Do a defrag, fixed my problem

Don't do this. Defragging an SSD is not a good practice and there are loads of forums advising against it.

[Moose 316]

30 minutes ago, Fat Clemenza said:

Don't do this. Defragging an SSD is not a good practice and there are loads of forums advising against it.

Believing everything you read on the internet

[L1on 8]

45 minutes ago, Fat Clemenza said:

Don't do this. Defragging an SSD is not a good practice and there are loads of forums advising against it.

+1, defragging has great potential to cause more problems down the line and it's not worth in the long run.

[Kitui 145]

You could have something on your PC copying program files to use up disc space, I would run some antivirus / antimalware scans / rootkits all that fun stuff.

 

[batGooseCan 622]

Throw that shit out the window and get a new one.

[KrispyK 22]

6 hours ago, Moose said:

Believing everything you read on the internet

Belive a person who's in fucking IT

[Bubbaloo - Reusable P Cup 3039]

Thanks everyone! I’ll check it out today when I get back home.