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[beandelphiki]

O...kay.

In the past twelve hours, I have:

-once-and-for-all-maybe deleted Alice 2.0 off my computer. +2MB (Yes, it's sad that 2MB was too much space for the program. Now that my sister's cleared all her damn music off, it hardly matters, but still.)

-downloaded Orbit setup -2MB

-saved 18 photos -2MB (approximately)

-downloaded Einstein and Eddington again, in three zipped parts -800MB total (approximately)

-burnt the first two parts to disc and deleted them (which I hope works, because I have the big file on a flash drive right now, and they love to eat .avi files) +572MB

NET TOTAL, if I've added this all up correctly, should be: -230MB, or thereabouts. I've also been using the internet, so I should have lost a certain amount of space to temporary internet files, but I'm not including that because I don't know what it is.


So explain to me why my free space has jumped from 1.20 GB to 2.14 GB in the past few hours? What the hell is my computer doing?! Some sort of room-making process? Defragging? Shouldn't I notice that happening? And why the hell didn't it do that when I actually needed more space?!

I'm a bit worried it's just eating stuff.

Comments

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

the only thing I can think of is that maybe those 2 episodes you deleted were not the only things in the recycle bin? Maybe your sister deleted her music files and they were still sitting in the recycle when you emptied it?

That happens to me a lot where I've deleted stuff and the storage space doesn't change because I don't think that it's still there, just moved to the recycle bin.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

We have separate user accounts, so we can't access each other's files at all. It's basically impossible for me to delete her files unless I go into her account as a System Admin.

Yeah. Really don't know.