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Old 05-21-2008   #2 (permalink)
Richard G. Harper


 
 

Re: hard drive shows full but select all files and properties don't ad

If you don't have the option to show hidden files and folders selected, you
will only see files with normal attributes. That could explain a lot since
several large files (hibernation, virtual memory swapfile) are hidden and
could be several gigabytes each.

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"Justin" <Justin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that
> the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select
> all
> files and view properties it shows only 40 gigs worth of files. Is there a
> glitch or patch anyone knows of because someone asked me about this with
> XP a
> couple months back and I didn't have an answer. Now I'm curious. Thanks
> for
> any help
>
> Justin
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