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what is going on guys you're watching Jays two cents and a lot of people ask me all the time about easy ways to manage their files and keep track of their disk space on their computers and that's exactly what we're gonna talk about on today's little bita tip now before we get started if you're new to my channel or you stumbled across this video somewhere out there on the interwebs do me a favor and hit that subscribe button show some support for Jays two cents bringing any of videos that empower you on becoming more educated and more confident in doing things with your computer so hit that subscribe button hit that like button and I hope to see you guys stick around for more Jays two cents but let's go ahead and get this thing started I'd like to use a program here called tree size you can see it right here it's absolutely free and it's a very simple program that basically just queries your hard drive and shows you where everything's at how big it is and you know well if you if you need a program to tell you how big it is you've got bigger problems but anyways if you click the Scan button here and look at the local disk if you look over here in my computer you can see I've only got nineteen point three gigs free right now on that drive so it's kind of important to see what's going on and where all of that information and all of that data storage is going because you don't want to run out of disk space especially if you have a small SSD like I do but you can see right here the moment we scan the C Drive I've got 41 gigabytes that are being used up in Program Files Program Files is the biggest file folder in my C Drive so let's go ahead and take a look at that and you can see right here it's nearly double the size of Windows so if I double click on that it expands it up go to that origin games thirty five gigs being used up on origin or we can look at the percentage and see that Program Files is used enough thirty eight point seven percent of my drive and 85 percent of that thirty eight percent is being taken up by origin games and what game is that Battlefield three as you can imagine battlefield three I don't like long load time so I stuck that on the SSD but if I was to really get tight for space I would probably want to move that program over to another Drive and I can know I could free up thirty five right then and there but we've got other things going on in here as well whoops if you take a look at the program files you can see we've got nearly two gigs being used up in common files and one gig of the that is being used up right here by Adobe now the cool thing too is you don't have to expand it if you just put your mouse over it you get some information right here you can see that the folder here is using 35 gigabytes you can see who's got permission is to make changes to it you can see the last date that it was changed with how much you know space is allocated to it how many files the locations the full path all that information is there so all you got to do is hover over it and you can see all of that but if we take a look here at users you can see I've got 17 point two gigs being used up in the users folder and if I take a look at that there's my name and you can see that we've got a lot of app data being used up we've got one point three gigs alone in the Documents folder and that's because Adobe captivate cached projects that's what I'm doing right now so if I take a look at my hard drive you'll see it's probably smaller than before nope still in 19.3 but anyway so if you want if you see a file that you know is junk and you want to get rid of it let's go ahead and say I want to take a look at my public I've got four gigs with the games there I've got 4.7 gigs being used in cryptic Studios which is Neverwinter and I know I don't want to play that game anymore so I can go ahead and just right-click on cryptic Studios delete delete the folder go to the recycling bin delete it and look at that now we've got 24 gigs showing right here on my SSD so tree size is a very good program to use if you want to identify where you using up all of your space now I want to just kind of point out how fast this drives scanned as you guys saw if you go over here to scan say my one terabyte drive it's gonna take well actually started cached I take that back but anyways we've got 239 gigabytes being that it's being used right here on the drive and a hundred gigs of that alone is my Steam library and then 54 gigs of that is my YouTube library and then we've got World of Warcraft on here I don't even know I don't play the game anymore but you can see it makes things a whole lot easier when it comes to identifying stuff so we've got you know 14 gigs with the movies and effects we've got 11 gigs in Adobe so it's very simple to identify and if you guys need to know where some of this information is and where are you using up all your folder files it I've found that my SSD a couple weeks back was just slowly filling up and I logged in one day and I got the low storage warning and I was like what the heck what was using up all the space so I was able to bring up tree size and right off the bat I was able to see that my iTunes under users where is it it was at my board set Program Files whatever anyway the iTunes folder program files here we go iTunes was way up here on the top and it was bigger than origin and what was happening was every time I was plugging my iPhone into my computer to charge it was doing an automatic backup and what it was doing is it was saving each and every backup it wasnt overriding a previous backup so I was getting about 7 gigs worth of backup every time I plugged in the phone and it was just padding up and adding up so I just came to the YouTube full of files here I opened it up and it said backups and I deleted it and got all that space back so there you go guys tree size it's right here absolutely free download it I'm gonna put a link to it in the description check it 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