Lost 14 gig of space on internal hard drive after backing up photos to dvd's

good Morning, I'm running pse 6 and yesterday I did a full back up of my pics which is about 14 gig onto dvd's.  This morning when I checked my free space available on my hard drive I was missing about 14 gig.  I normally only have about 20 gig of free space left on my hard drive so I can't afford to lose 14 gig.  Did backing up my pics on dvds also eat 14 gig of space on my hard drive?  Help!
Bill III

well probably you have told PSE to back up your entire hard disk , first check out the disk space usage and all by downloading any disk space usage analysis software..probably that will give you some help.

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