Uninstalling games doesn't free up any disk space

[seu madruga]

So i've deleted about 150GB of games yet not a single byte was freed, something I've noticed was that Steam didn't take even a second to uninstall every game, so what should i do? even uninstalling them manually didn't help

[reg1s7]

Disk cleanup + disk defragment

[seu madruga]

Originally posted by EvanS_3826:

Disk cleanup + disk defragment

Forgot to mention, already tried didn't work

[ReBoot]

Check where the space is used with TreeSize.

[seu madruga]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Check where the space is used with TreeSize.

Checked too non-existant.it still consumes space somehow

[ReBoot]

How's your TreeSize overview look?

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Zord90:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Check where the space is used with TreeSize.

Checked too non-existant.it still consumes space somehow

do you have multi steam lib, it could be on other drev. ? and you look at other drev.
have no other idea.

[seu madruga]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

How's your TreeSize overview look?

Looks exactly like the file explorer

[seu madruga]

Originally posted by Iceira:

Originally posted by Zord90:

Checked too non-existant.it still consumes space somehow

do you have multi steam lib, it could be on other drev. ? and you look at other drev.
have no other idea.

Sadly not, thanks for the help though!

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Zord90:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

How's your TreeSize overview look?

Looks exactly like the file explorer

Then you're using it wrong because it displays you an overview on space used and where. I suppose you haven't told it to actually scan your disk, you merely opened it.
Tell it to scan your disk!

[Electric Cupcake]

Use Revo Uninstaller.
Run TRIM.
Run Ccleaner or Eusing Registry Cleaner.

[seu madruga]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Zord90:

Looks exactly like the file explorer

Then you're using it wrong because it displays you an overview on space used and where. I suppose you haven't told it to actually scan your disk, you merely opened it.
Tell it to scan your disk!

You mean to scan my entire disk right? if so then i did it 2-3 times still same thing am i doing something wrong? I tried to scan the disk C:/ *my only disk*

[seu madruga]

Originally posted by Hugsie Muffinball:

Use Revo Uninstaller.
Run TRIM.
Run Ccleaner or Eusing Registry Cleaner.

Nothing shows up on REVO, can't use TRIM already tried Ccleaner , I'll try going for eusing registry cleaner

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Zord90:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Then you're using it wrong because it displays you an overview on space used and where. I suppose you haven't told it to actually scan your disk, you merely opened it.
Tell it to scan your disk!

You mean to scan my entire disk right? if so then i did it 2-3 times still same thing am i doing something wrong? I tried to scan the disk C:/ *my only disk*

SOMETHING is clearly wrong if all you see resembles the file manager. Have a screenshot of how TreeSize looks when you get it to do it's purpose. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlN7g8lbRD78lpgKjIWt-wQIoGZrEA?e=GeB59x Note the area on the right which shows where the space goes.

[Jack Schitt]

Uninstalling doesn't always remove everything. A lot of times there can be a lot left behind that an uninstall process doesn't delete so we have to manually go to the folder and delete the contents and then empty what we've manually deleted out of the recycle bin before the space they were in becomes free.

The files left behind will be in your steamlibrary folder(s) and in the %appdata% or my documents folders. The stuff you'll find in the appdata and documents folders will be things you might want to keep like saves and content for the games from the games' workshops, and things you created in the game and copied or saved such as games like Space Engineers and Empyrion - Galactic Survival have blueprints for ships and bases or whatever a blueprint was made of ....those files are sometimes in documents or appdata folders instead of the library folders.

The reason games are designed that way to spread stuff all over the computer in several places is so that it's not mistakenly lost and so when we uninstall and reinstall our saved games and content we've previously made is still there. When we truly want everything gone we have to manually delete them. The uninstallers don't usually delete that stuff.

[seu madruga]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Zord90:

You mean to scan my entire disk right? if so then i did it 2-3 times still same thing am i doing something wrong? I tried to scan the disk C:/ *my only disk*

SOMETHING is clearly wrong if all you see resembles the file manager. Have a screenshot of how TreeSize looks when you get it to do it's purpose. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlN7g8lbRD78lpgKjIWt-wQIoGZrEA?e=GeB59x Note the area on the right which shows where the space goes.

Mine is exactly like file explorer *guess I'll die*, doesn't have the area on the right side, I'm 101% sure I'm doing something wrong, can you explain how should I do it?, using the latest version also