Resolved A little lost space on my drive

I have a 186 GB SATA drive (Western Digital) that I use for video editing. With a big editing job coming, I set out to make as much space as possible. After deleting all the files I could, and then defragging and emptying the recycle bin, I show 5.17 GB of used space. But if I go down all the remaining folders and do a properties on each, I come up with 3.4 GB total in all of them. I seem to have 1.77 GB of lost space somehow.

I did a chkdsk /f, and it did not find ANY damaged areas.

I know this isn't a huge deal, but I'm curious where the 1.8 GB has gone. Does anyone have any ideas?

Terry Quinn

 

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Never mind. I found the problem. For some reason, even though I did dump the recycle bin, it didn't "take" the first time. I did it again, and now the overall used space matches the sum of all of the folders' used space.

Sorry,

Terry