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Old 05-21-2008   #3 (permalink)
Justin


 
 

Re: hard drive shows full but select all files and properties don'

Thank you, I did select to show hidden files. Any other ideas?

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:
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> 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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> >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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