OneDrive storage plan and billing questions. If you still need help, select Contact Support to be routed to the best support option. Files On-Demand might not be compatible with some third-party antivirus solutions. Notes: Files On-Demand settings are unique to each device, so make sure you turn it on for each device where you want to use it. Notes: New files or folders created online or on another device appear as online-only to save maximum space. Need more help?
Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. After deleting files from the Downloads folder, make sure to empty the Trash, or else the deleted files will still be on your computer, and still eating up storage space for nothing. At the end of the day, I see the Downloads folder as a temporary space where files sometimes get downloaded to.
Now do yourself a favor and go check out that Downloads folder of yours. It means my files not showing in hard drive but still there. Please help me fix Seagate external hard drive files disappeared but still taking up space issue. I need them urgently. If you want to access files not showing in external hard drive, then follow the below-mentioned fix sequentially:. Many times data files are in the HDD and user cannot view it because they are hidden.
As a result, users think files and folders missing from external hard drive but still taking up space. Thus, one can show the disappeared folders using the below steps:. Due to problem in a file system, the hard drive such as Seagate, Kingston in in Windows 10, 8, 7 etc. To resolve this glitch, go through the below-instructions carefully and fix users folder not visible in Windows hard drive:.
If external hard drive shows used space, but empty folders, then it might be the case of virus. Download the Zip archive on the website to use the portable version. Download JDiskReport. FolderSize did exactly what I wanted, I walked down the folder tree looking for big folders.
I found 20gb of Windows install logs from , realized I had a folder duplicated which cleaned up 7gb. The biggest culprit was a 15gb log file for McAfee. I just needed to see directory sizes so I could investigate. I was putting the task off for years, but this helped me speed it up by orders of magnitude, thanks!! I use Directory Report. It looks just like the MS-Explorer but always shows the folder size.
This lets me to quickly drill down to problem folders which contain the huge files. That is the only app that does the job. It finds large files and folders. It returns the complete report and works very fast too. It has some additional features such as Disks Watchdog.
Hi actually none of them check dept of Path directory levels as I can see , but is ther som good tool for that on w? Gave WizTree a go tonight. It does not report accurately at all. I noticed it when I scanned the hard drive I use for all of my games. It was showing many directories as having MB, less, or even 0 bytes, when each are in the multiple GB range. I just used it on a drive that contains most of my games 1.
Oh wow thx. This is awesome! Scanner is the fastest thing of them all he just needed seconds to scan may gb ssd while jdiskreport and WinDirStat need over 10 minutes.
Very useful post. Yeap, I would agree WizTree is a very quick tool and would have been included if it was around when the post was written.
It is something that will very likely be added when this post gets an update. Personally, I still prefer SpaceSniffer though :. I have spent days trying to remember the name of this. I kept looking for wizard tree! I agree this is by far the best one to get an overview of everything. Another free tool of Hard Drive manager for you! With this utility, you can create, format, resize and delete the parition.
Totally free for home users. Download free here. A similar product is sequoia view, also very easy to use works fine on xp and win7 only tried it on these two.
Thanks for the article, just tried Space Sniffer for the first time and love it! Something funny going on though, this article is dated Oct 16 this year, but there are comments from two years ago? Well spotted Mr. Raymond is going to write about the reasons for this and other things such as the new theme hopefully in the next few days.
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