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PC just backed up everything to my own HD, no space left

Mar 16, 2014 6:52AM PDT

I guess my external HD was disconnected and Windows backed up my data on top of my internal HD, and now I have 700kb of space left. I have no idea where this stuff is stored, any ideas?

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Clear off some of your stuff to backup copies then
Mar 16, 2014 6:54AM PDT

Go get TREESIZE to find what folder on your drive is bloated.
Bob

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how to safely delete
Mar 16, 2014 11:56AM PDT

Awesome. So under:

AppData - Local - Microsoft - Windows - FileHistory

it has two folders: 'Data' is using 68GB, 'Configuration' is using 0.5GB.

Is it okay to delete the File History folder, or should I delete the two subfolders, OR just what's inside both? Thanks.

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(NT) Since you have backups, select in Explorer and delete.
Mar 16, 2014 1:45PM PDT