Users > AppData takes up 25 GB

[Shodan]

I'm keep having less and less space on my C drive, only 30 GB left out of 110, and I found out that AppData in Users is taking up pretty much all the space which isn't Windows and other stuff. Any way I could get rid of this? I'm sick of games constantly adding their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ files on my drive where I have almost no space instead of my 3 TB drive which is only for games.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Its your user data specifically that is sucking up that much. Figure out from what exactly.
Use WinDirStat to break it all down in a much easier to view way.

[Shodan]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Its your user data specifically that is sucking up that much. Figure out from what exactly.
Use WinDirStat to break it all down in a much easier to view way.

What takes up exactly 25.3 GB is Local Disk C > Users > my user folder > AppData > Local

Some Temp folder takes up 15GB and I have no idea what the hell are all the folders and files in it...Nothing to do with anything I've installed.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Run Disk Cleanup and see what that helps u get rid of.

Then run CCleaner. Just be mindful of clearing things like History or Cookies for your Browsers. In CCleaner, those items will be in the Applications tab for browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera.

[LiMpY]

A couple ideas..
1) if it's in a temp or tmp folder you can delete it. Some programs use temp for storage while the program is running and you won't be able to delete a couple files. No big deal.

2) right click "this pc" choose "properties"
select advanced system settings
at the bottom of that tab click on "Environment variables"
in the top half "User variables for YOU"
edit TEMP and TMP and change the location to somewhere off of c:. By that I mean a different partition. eg. mine are both pointing to e:\temp
This makes it easy to delete all the rifraff in there and desn't take any space from c:

[Blaagh]

whats got history and cookies to do with this? if anything its the browser cache you can clear, thats saved in appdata too for 3rd party browsers.

btw. "games" usually dont use appdata but the documents folder. you can move that directory to your 3TB hdd

[Viper]

AppData is the folder most apps use for important data ( config files, databases, savegames, etc ). it is not a temporary folder. If you deleted it you would break almost every app on your PC. It is also by default hidden so people don't mess with it.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Run Disk Cleanup and see what that helps u get rid of.

Then run CCleaner. Just be mindful of clearing things like History or Cookies for your Browsers. In CCleaner, those items will be in the Applications tab for browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera.

^Do this.