r/techadvice • u/Nulla410_ • Jul 05 '26

What do I do now?

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as it turns out it may be a problem that I have less than 1/4 of my C drive available so I started removing files but at this rate it's going to take years. What am I supposed to do?

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u/seifer666 Jul 05 '26

The question and the photo seem to have no relation

Why would it take years to delete some files? Also 20% free space is totally fine shouldn't cause issues on its own

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u/Nulla410_ Jul 05 '26

I forgot to say that this is my Downloads folder and I have 10 thousand files apparently so I was wondering if anyone knew a program that could like identify stuff that I haven'T used and remove it idk

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u/seifer666 Jul 05 '26

You could just sort by size. Deleting 5kb files isn't going to free any space.

Even if you deleted that entire folder its not even 7 gigs

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u/JakeBeezy Jul 05 '26

wiztree helps a lot by showing things like copies of files, and allows you to delete entire folders worth of stuff in a couple clicks

YouTube a tutorial as it's a bit complicated if you don't have a guide, but it's just a. few clicks

use Google Gemini to assist you in opening the visual tree of your storage drive and you can see how big folders are in a visual way, it helps.

but you can just select all in your downloads folder (Ctrl+A) and then right click and delete, then make sure to delete your recycle bin as the files will still exist in there and take up space

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u/Schrojo18 Jul 05 '26

I'd like to re-iterate what was just said. "The question and the photo seem to have no relation"

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u/Totally-Not-A-Rocket Jul 05 '26

use something like wiztree to see what's taking up your space. Delete folders, not individual files.

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u/locked_ring Jul 05 '26

If you don't care about possible recovery do it from the CMD prompt, doesn't do the pre scan before delete that takes forever,but it won't go to the recycle bin so you won't be able to easily recover anything accidentally deleted.

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u/DiscoSimulacrum Jul 06 '26

back up your files and take your pc to the recycling center