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how to find out what's mysteriously eating HD space (file sync)

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Deozaan:
You may also be able to use some tool like WinDirStat to see what's taking up space on your drives.

Target:
if its only a mirror, then why not just wipe it and re-synch?

if it re-occurs then you know you've got a problem

Stoic Joker:
Could File History (fka Previous Versions) be using one of the drives?

brotherS:
I tried chkdsk but it didn't show anything not normal.

Yes, those are HDDs.

> if its only a mirror, then why not just wipe it and re-synch?

Because it's >1 TB of data and both drives are connected only by USB 2.0.  :-[

No "File History" in use here.

WinDirStat finally helped me find the issue: a file with a >4 GB size only had a "size on disk" of a few MB on one drive but >4 GB size on the other. So weird! A similar finding with a >1 GB file. Now both drives have the same available disk space again! The file synchronizer might have an issue with larger files, I'll keep an eye on this.

Thanks for all your help!  :-*

MilesAhead:
The file synchronizer might have an issue with larger files, I'll keep an eye on this.
-brotherS (January 24, 2017, 08:03 AM)
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That could be it.  I was using a dedicated folder sync program.  It worked fine until it hung one day.  I assume the number of files, or the number of files over a GB, got to be too much for it.  I switched to the folder sync in FreeCommanderXE and so far haven't had an issue with the same folder set.

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