Windows folder excessively large

On 9/11/2018 10:32 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 9/11/18 7:07 PM, Zaidy036 wrote:
On 9/11/2018 4:38 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 9/10/18 9:56 PM, Paul wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:


I patiently ran through the rest of the folder, looking for something
that seemed out of whack.Â* Couldn't find anything, so I went looking
elsewhere.

I think someone in this thread mentioned the hidden folders, so I
turned
them on.Â* To my huge surprise, I discovered the AppData folder was
taking up half the 120GB drive, 60GB +.

Can this be right?

I'm also thinking my memory of the size of the Windows folder is in
error.

A basic install of a modern Windows OS is around 10GB total.
That's if you reduce the pagefile to 1GB or less. And
you switch off hibernation.

Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* powercfg /h off

The Win10 VM in front of me, the AppData in my account
contains 1.5GB of files.

My W10 AppData folder is just 693 MB.Â* So how does his AppData folder
get to be 62 GB?

There's got to be something disastrously wrong here.

The next time we get together, I'm going to peek in the folder, see
what's there.Â* The only program he has installed, as listed in Programs
and Features, if Office 365 Home and Student.

Looking at my AppData folder, in the subfolders I see folders for
programs that are no longer installed.Â* Why?Â* Did the uninstall routine
simply not remove them?

There must be some way, other than guesswork, to compare what's
installed to the data in AppData folder, and delete what is no longer
needed.

About 900MB of that AppData, is a Thunderbird profile
with News and Mail folders.

Some people can hold onto large quantities of email,
and perhaps that's what your perp is hiding on you.
Todd can tell you stories about people with 25-30GB
of mail. It happens.

His email is Gmail, and he accesses it via Firefox, IIRC.Â* No email
client is installed, except The mail client that comes with W10, which I
don't think he would even know how to use.

He is definitely not computer knowledgeable.Â* :-(

Another possibility might be a cache for a browser.
My brother managed to jack up the size of one of
those caches once, that it dragged the machine down
to its knees.

I'll see what Firefox says about the cache size the next time we have a
Teamviewer session.

*******

Note: If you do find email is the culprit, don't
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* be in a rush. Large email folders have been
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* known to corrupt when you tidy or compact them.
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* *Make sure* to back up the machine before
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* attempting email maintenance on something that
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* large.

Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* Paul

Gmail may be configured for both POP and IMAP and Tbird may be using
IMAP while FireFox is using POP causing the difference in Profile size.

As I said, he doesn't use an email client.Â* So, wouldn't POP and IMAP be
irrelevant?

Not sure. I use Gmail web mail POP but have T-Bird running with IMAP as
a backup


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Zaidy036