My "Documents and settings" folder has the property on it ......
It says size:85 mb and size on disk:115 mb....
Is there any way to recover 30 mb......
I tryed defrag.disk clean up,etc....
plz help...
2007-03-09 02:38:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
the property size of the folder is 85 mb the actual size is on the physical hddis 115 thats always going to be like that
2007-03-09 02:52:13 · answer #1 · answered by Call me Dick, Mr Head 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has to do with both file fragmentation and the number of files in your documents and settings folder. Many times your computer ends up leaving space between files and file fragments which creates the extra disk usage.
Defrag can help reduce the number of file fragments which reduces the number of spaces between files and file fragments but there is very little that can be done about the the space between the files themselves.
Your file system on that drive or drive partition does have some effect. FAT32 leaves more space then the more modern NTSF used by Windows XP and NT.
If your drive is already using NTSF you can switch to file compression mode which does eliminates these spaces and will give you that extra little bit of storage space back. The downside of this is that it will slow down the speed at which your computer can access the files.
2007-03-09 02:52:47 · answer #2 · answered by CM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 10:41:09 · answer #3 · answered by vyky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't bother. 30mb isn't worth the effort. If you want more space, just buy a HD with greater capacity or one of those external USB drives (around 70TB)
2007-03-09 02:51:23 · answer #4 · answered by martelli88 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manually clean temp files, temporary Internet files, history etc.
2007-03-09 02:45:29 · answer #5 · answered by blgsyr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run scandisk. This will detect the lost space and restore the files taking the space.
2007-03-09 02:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First, 30Mb of data is nothing that is going to make a difference to you.
Second, you do not need to worry about what that says.
2007-03-09 02:42:28 · answer #7 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋