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April 3, 2020

Why does my %appdata%\Local\Temp folder have over 15GB in it? If this data is disposable, why hasn't Windows told me?

https://superuser.com/questions/648164/why-does-my-appdata-local-temp-folder-have-almost-100gb-in-it-if-this-data-is

C:\Users\Rob\AppData\Local\Temp

Deleting 114,000 487 Meg.

Looks like I got that cleaned up, anyway. I now have 20.7 gig free of 74.5 gig on the C:\ drive. Lord.

Posted by Rob Kiser on April 3, 2020 at 11:13 AM

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WinDirStat - windirstat.net - is a utility for finding large files and folders, to see what is taking up space on your hard drive.

There are others, but this has worked well for me.

Posted by: anonymous on April 3, 2020 at 6:40 PM

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