Fresh W8 install, 46gb folder?

[Chifte]

Hi all,

I've recently built a new computer, I decided to use a 64GB SSD for W8 and the main game I'm playing.

Now I've built this computer yesterday, installed W8, installed all drivers and then downloaded my 15GB game file, I am left with 2.6GB.

I tried to search and find what file is using all the space, there's a folder under my user name that says it's 30GB, yet when I open the file and look for what it is all the files are a single 15.6GB file then 400-600KB or 3mb-8mb files with no explanation for the other 15GB.

Anyone know what's going on?

I expected 20GB for the OS, 15GB download, then 20GB uncompressed and installed for the game, 2GB for drivers maybe resulting in 42 GB out of 59GB.

 

[redduc900]

What's the name of the folder?

 

[bmwbaxter]

Not sure what is up with that folder, but disabling hibernation will clear up a fair bit of space and on an SSD it isn't really necessary.

 

[NoMonitor]

Make sure to allow Windows to show hidden files and folders... Likely a few hidden in there...

What folder are we talking about?


PS: 64GB is nothing these days.

 

[Chifte]

Make sure to allow Windows to show hidden files and folders... Likely a few hidden in there...

What folder are we talking about?


PS: 64GB is nothing these days.

I was going to post screen shots of my issue, but then decided to go into folder option and view all hidden folders.

User>My Name> Appdata> Local>Temp>AC3

So the issue was I had AC3 15.3GB on my desktop, then I had this hidden temp file with 15.3GB. Not sure how I did that, or why the system did that but none the less it's fixed.

Yeah 64GB is nothing that's for sure, but I was really confused as I thought Windows itself was taking up all that hard drive space. I really just want the SSD for booting and whatever flavor of the month game I want to play and fast load.

Now I'm happily playing AC3.

Anyway thank you for the tip, and thanks to the other members for trying to help, I appreciate it!

Happy Holidays cheers!

 

[RockerGuy]

Do u have a folder called "old.window"?

Go to option to clean up windows, they should help clean up things that are taking up space. I had the same problem when I installed Win 8 from Win 7