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Hi Folks, I am running a Vista Acer laptop. My 111GB D drive is full. From what I understand, this drive is for backups. It has three forlders, two of which are empty and the third has a few MB. I expanded the tree and deleted most of my backups. I kept about 15. All folders are unhidden. Deleting the old backups didn't get me any space back even after reboot. In the properties of each backup it the files are listed as having 0 bytes. What is going on? What is filling up my D drive, 111GB in 6 months. I changed the backup frequency from daily to monthly, this will help in the future but how do I get my space back. I am afraid to reformat the drive but if I cant figure out how to delete what is taking up the space, I might have to. Anyone have a problem like this.

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