Emulator using 80+GB of my hard drive???

macstranded

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I only have one question: WHY?!



I checked my documents folder and there was only one PCSX2 folder which was about 1.3 GB. I also looked in the AppData folders, but I didn't find any folders for that emulator.

 

MattNo5ss

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I haven't used a PSX emulator, but is it possibly including the games when calculating the space it takes up?

 

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MattNo5ss said:

I haven't used a PSX emulator, but is it possibly including the games when calculating the space it takes up?

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The only game I have for the emulator is less than 3 GB in size

 

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macstranded

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I still haven't solved this. I can't be the only person who's ever had this issue.

 

Automata

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If the folder is actually 46 MB, like in your picture, it is reporting incorrectly. If you want to see a very good breakdown of folders and the size, use the program WinDirStat.

Simply put, there isn't a problem.

 

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I remember seeing a picture of Dragon Age 2 or something taking up 1.81TB in the programs and features manager. Not really a deal if the folder is not taking up the claimed space.

 

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It's a windows thing...

 

Niku-Sama

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as long as the size on disk thing is where its at it should be ok.

just wait till you come across a program in the uninstall listings that says its LARGER than your whole hard drive and/or partition......then is when you need to worry that windows is a bit eff'ed and it might be time to reformat and re install

 

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A format and reinstall for it showing the wrong size in Programs and Features?

Seems a bit extreme.

 

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Thanks for the responses. I'm just going to ignore this "issue" and not stress about it. I was mainly just worried that it was using the extra space for saves or for virtual memory or god knows what else.

 

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macstranded said:

Thanks for the responses. I'm just going to ignore this "issue" and not stress about it. I was mainly just worried that it was using the extra space for saves or for virtual memory or god knows what else.

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I wish it would show accurately but it doesn't in all cases. I have it showing megs of data when its Gigs typically. Though I really don't care what it says, I just go to the folder and look at what is taking space if I need to clean up.