What is taking up space on my hard drive?

[Nugicus]

So I decided to downloads Steam and install a couple of games with about 399 GB on my computer.

The two games took about 27 GB of hard drive space even though I installed them to an external drive.

After I decided to remove both Steam and any apps associated with it, my computer keeps telling me my available hard drive space is 372 GB.

So can anyone explain to me why Steam is supposedly taking up space on my computer?

[ReBoot]

Use TreeSize to check where the space is going.

[Nugicus]

BTW, I made sure I removed all files related to Steam in the documents folder and in Program files. So what the ♥♥♥♥?

[crunchyfrog]

Are you SURE they installed there?

Also save games generally go in the OS drive. But there's probably a few other files too.

You really shouldn't asking why it's taking up space, but just letting it do it, because it needs to run how it runs.

Just make sure you always have plenty of space on all drives and just let it do what it wants to.

You could try reading up some of the notes here about how steam runs and download encrypted games and so on, so you don't make some common mistakes too.

[ReBoot]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TRR Gordon Gren. Nugicus:

BTW, I made sure I removed all files related to Steam in the documents folder and in Program files. So what the ♥♥♥♥?

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ReBoot:

Use TreeSize to check where the space is going.

[Nugicus]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ReBoot:

Use TreeSize to check where the space is going.

Okay, so I download and ran Treesize. How do I figure about what's taking up space.?

[Nugicus]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย crunchyfrog:

Are you SURE they installed there?

Also save games generally go in the OS drive. But there's probably a few other files too.

You really shouldn't asking why it's taking up space, but just letting it do it, because it needs to run how it runs.

Just make sure you always have plenty of space on all drives and just let it do what it wants to.

You could try reading up some of the notes here about how steam runs and download encrypted games and so on, so you don't make some common mistakes too.

It shouldn't be running because it no longer exists on my computer or at least It shouldn't after I uninstalled it.

[ReBoot]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TRR Gordon Gren. Nugicus:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ReBoot:

Use TreeSize to check where the space is going.

Okay, so I download and ran Treesize. How do I figure about what's taking up space.?

You look at the user interface of TreeSize, there's a button labeled "scan".

[Nugicus]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ReBoot:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TRR Gordon Gren. Nugicus:

Okay, so I download and ran Treesize. How do I figure about what's taking up space.?

You look at the user interface of TreeSize, there's a button labeled "scan".

Okay, so I scanned. There are hundreds of files here. How do I find what Steam as added to my hard drive?

[ReBoot]

TreeSize shows WHERE the space is used, in what folders. Check that. Don't look for single files, TreeSize gives you a structured view, so regard it in a structured way!

To answer your question, Steam writes to it's own folder.

[Nugicus]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ReBoot:

TreeSize shows WHERE the space is used, in what folders. Check that.

To answer your question, Steam writes to it's own folder.

There is no Steam folder after I had uninstalled steam.

And now I suddenly have 370 GB of free space.

And it seems like my computer is lying to me. In the properties of my C: drive how can I both have 398,000,000,000 bytes and 370 GB of free space like it's telling me?

[primeinsurrection]

Porn?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TRR Gordon Gren. Nugicus:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ReBoot:

TreeSize shows WHERE the space is used, in what folders. Check that.

To answer your question, Steam writes to it's own folder.

There is no Steam folder after I had uninstalled steam.

And now I suddenly have 370 GB of free space.

And it seems like my computer is lying to me. In the properties of my C: drive how can I both have 398,000,000,000 bytes and 370 GB of free space like it's telling me?

In Steam was Userdata >screenshots.
If your using windows run windows disc cleanup tool and set it to find everything.
bytes explained
a Kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 Bytes
a Megabyte (MB) = 1,024 Kilobytes
a Gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 Megabytes
http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/links/dataRate/DataMeasurementChart.html

[Nugicus]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jaunitta 🌸:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TRR Gordon Gren. Nugicus:

There is no Steam folder after I had uninstalled steam.

And now I suddenly have 370 GB of free space.

And it seems like my computer is lying to me. In the properties of my C: drive how can I both have 398,000,000,000 bytes and 370 GB of free space like it's telling me?

In Steam was Userdata >screenshots.
If your using windows run windows disc cleanup tool and set it to find everything.
bytes explained
a Kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 Bytes
a Megabyte (MB) = 1,024 Kilobytes
a Gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 Megabytes
http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/links/dataRate/DataMeasurementChart.html

Right, so shouldn't I have at least 398 GB?

The disk cleanup only cleaned 11 MB.

[crunchyfrog]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TRR Gordon Gren. Nugicus:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jaunitta 🌸:

In Steam was Userdata >screenshots.
If your using windows run windows disc cleanup tool and set it to find everything.
bytes explained
a Kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 Bytes
a Megabyte (MB) = 1,024 Kilobytes
a Gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 Megabytes
http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/links/dataRate/DataMeasurementChart.html

Right, so shouldn't I have at least 398 GB?

The disk cleanup only cleaned 11 MB.

Well, mayybe and maybe not.

It really depends on what things are using the calculations and what are using that "rounding up". Wouldn't be the first time that displaying space was portrayed incorrectly.

The better question is why are you so hung up on this?

If you've gone through any of those steam files (and you DON'T need to study every file - you only need to look for things like screenshots or labelled stuff you obviously ain't gonna use), then unless it's massive amounts of space you desperately need, so what?

[The Mastermind]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย primeinsurrection:

Porn?

Thats 70% of my space. And I have like 2Tb. :D