k-bom Posted September 5, 2006 Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 Computer:Intel 4, Dell Dimension 2400, Windows XP Home edition service pack 1, 2.8GHz.Once I had X memory left in Harddisk, began download of a 2 GB archive, the memory went down to X - 2 GB, which is right since seeing the download folder it creates the 2GB size from start and as it downloads it, it goes filling the contents. But when I saw the torrent wasn't good enough and deleted it, refreshed the explorer, the free memory reported hadn't return to X, it kept being X - 2 GB. And so was next day. As if the deletion of data, which no more shows in explorer had not done right.Deleting a few other completed torrents I didn't want to keep has ended right: recovering the disk space.However now I'm finding some thing strange:I began the download of a huge 25.0 GB file. As I start the download the explorer shows 40.0GB, even after refreshing, and so on for some minutes, until it goes to show 40.0-25.0 = 15.0 GB, as the 25 GB of files have been created. However, I'm seeing how, having not saved any new file to my harddisk, the free space is lowering and has gotten to 14.1 GB.It's it creating a temporary file between the final file where it stores and the download, that is getting bigger and bigger?. It will reach to ge tmy HD to 0, and then it frees those extra 25 GB?Though seemingly the free disk is going down faster than the downloading of the files.Is that what reading from cache does?I've turn off the options as FAQ suggest in how to change disk cache settings part, but it continues the same way, now it's at 13.1GB.Is that normal? Is there something I can do to reduce that? When would start to get back to the 40.0-25.0=15.0GB free disk final?Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Have you restarted your computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-bom Posted September 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Yes, I had restarted it and kept showing too low memory.However, today I've seen two new files, and I think one folder has changed size though yesterday it didn't show. It may be that not all files were created in start and some have begun downloading later and is then when they're created? Also I know for sure all but one have the same size than start, as for the last folder I think it hasn't changed either so the problem exists, but I'm not 100% sure. So I'll write down the files and sizes and have it downloading today.EDIT: No, I've written down the files and sizes. Certainly it seems some files it's waiting to start downloading them to create the placeholder file; but right now all big files that would justify a loss of 0.1GB are created, the only file that isn't yet created is 1.7 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Stop referring to hard disk space as "memory". It's not memory. It's hard disk space (or disk space for short).Do you run disk cleanup at all?What filesystem is your hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-bom Posted September 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Ah, sorry, custom to use same word. Answering to the questions above:I run disk cleanup rarely, every various months, last was more than half year ago.NTFSBut, seeing the free disk space keeps going down I've tested not after five hours of download that two foders of the torrent download, while having the same number of files (as there's no more to get there) has in fact increased the size accordingly to the free disk space reduction. Have not checked how the file sizes have changed though, had not the patience to write down each file's size this morning. Guess that's to be done now.Thanks for the answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-bom Posted September 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Hmmm... ran CHKDSK, which made some "removing xxxx from xxxx" (sorry forgot what were those xxx), detected errors and will have to be ran with some options.Now the free disk space has increased by 0.3 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Are you using some kind of automatic file backup utility or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-bom Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Nope, none.After that CHKDSK run, I still have to run it with write permissions to solve the problems it found, those 0.3 GB of free disk recovered after the first run, disappeared again, but the kept stable at that for all the evening. Today it went up 0.1 GB and no again 0.1 down. Apparently stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-bom Posted September 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 These last day it seems stabilized at the right free disk space left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Odd... I still say it's something else wrong on your computer, but as long as it rectifies itself... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike18xx Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 If he's using Norton, he should customize his recycle-bin settings, and also right-click and Empty Protected Files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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