Where has disk space gone?

I am running Vista Home premium OS. When I look at the SW Preload C: drive it says that I have 105G capacity and am using 102G. When I look at all of the the visible directoriies, they say I am using about 40G. When I use the DOS command window, I see other directories such as RRBackups and "System Volume Information" which I am not able to view. How do I determine how much space is being used by these directories? How do I view these directories?
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I've been driven nuts by wondering where my hard drive on my X60 has been disappearing to! Now - after months of deleting tons of PowerPoint files, video etc to try to make space and having to buy CDs to copy them to - which is hardly efficient (and fearing viruses, Trojans or something worse as being the cause) - I have recovered FIFTY GIGABYTES!!!!!! I am so relieved, but SO B****Y ANGRY!!!!! What kind of an idiot thinks putting utilities on like R&R is a good idea without making it very clear to users what the effect of having it is going to do? It was only after downloading Space Monger software to analyse my hard drive that I found 'protected sections' of the disk and that it referred to RRBackup. A Google lead me to the Lenovo pages and then I found so many other people with the same problems as I had been having!
Don't get me wrong, a back up utility is useful - but for God's sake Lenovo do a better job of telling people that it will use increasingly more of the hard drive to store backups. As it happens, I back up to an external hard drive so don't need the R&R feature, and I am a bit sceptical that a backup on a drive that might fail is useful anyway. But that's by the by....
The inconvenience and hassle this 'feature' has caused me is considerable and I guess it's the same for many other people too. Still, at least I've found it - deleted the backups and now have a hard drive that's usable again!

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Where has the space gone ? I can't find it.

I have a late 2009 iMac 21.5" and recently replaced my HDD with 2tb drive. the new drive shows only 110 gb free space after restoring from Time Machine. The original drive was 1 tb and was only 70% full. All folders total just under 800gb...huh?

What, exactly, did you restore from Time Machine, and how did you do that?

Where has my music gone!?

I just reformatted my puter and i chose to Store Tab in iTunes, then clicked Check for purchases.
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ITs all on my iPod, and i can listen to it.. but my libary has a Tumbleweed blowin around
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jello,
the replacement policy is very clear.
Here are some steps from reverse syncing
Use your iPod and iTunes 7
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HT1605 Where has sleep iPod gone from the timer menu?

Where has sleep iPod gone from the timer menu?

Hey, thank you very much for the clarification.
I just performed a quick test. If the iPod doesn't have any programs running it will indeed go to sleep after the "stop playing" timer ends. But if I'm playing music the "stop playing" timer will only stop playing the music when the timer ends, but will not actually put the iPod to sleep. Same goes for watching videos, the timer only stops playing the video but does not put the iPod to sleep.
The "sleep iPod" option, on the other hand, actually put the iPod to sleep when the timer ended.
The "stop playing" option only stops an app from playing media but does not put the iPod to sleep.
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How do I put my iPod to sleep now?
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Memory Shortage/Where Has The Memory Gone???

Hi,
I have just recently bought a Apple MacBook, i have had the Apple people to partition the hard drive so that i can heave both Windows and Mac on one computer.
Im new to Mac so I'm not sure how it runs and what to do.
On my desktop i have to hard drive icons one is Macintosh HD and the other one is Untitled, so you would presume that it would be Windows. When i right click the Macintosh HD icon and click get info it says that
Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled)
Capacity: 47.88 GB
Available: 19.06 GB
Used: 28.82 GB on disk
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I was just wondering where has about 28 GB has gone? i have tried search for some help on the apple site, but there is nothing.
I have about 8.5 GB of music on my computer and i have deleted all the movies and tv shows. Also i have iwork on my MacBook.
I was wondering if there is any how i can get most of the memory back and if there is a scan of some kind to show what is taking up the parts of memory. Also is there away of finding out if i have got Tiger or Leopard on my MacBook because the apple guys gave me a Leopard CD.
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You can use
WhatSize or Disk Inventory X to see what all is there. The macBook comes loaded with extra software. Office and iWork are both demos. There are some things you can get rid of.
These two articles can help you clean up some.
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The XLab: Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
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External disk space gone crazy after upgrade to SL

Hi,
I have just upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and am now running 10.6.3. I have an iomega 320GB external USB hard disk which I use to back up via Time Machine, and also to periodically back up a virtual machine which is not backed up by Time Machine. Prior to upgrading, there was about 3GB of space on the iomega drive, the TM backups were taking about 251GB and my virtual machine backup was taking the remaining 66GB.
The first time I connected the iomega drive after upgrading to SL, I wanted to deleted the backup copy of the virtual machine (66GB), so I navigated to it in the Finder, right-clicked on the folder and selected "Move to trash", whereupon it duly disappeared. (I thought it slightly odd that I didn't hear the drive making any sound – I thought I should be able to hear it pysically deleting the file.) I then tried to copy a new virtual machine file of smaller size onto the iomega drive, and got an error message that there was not enough disk space. I selected the drive in the L/H pane of the Finder window and hit Cmd-I to get info: this told me the following:
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Available 1.89GB
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I know that the files I just deleted from the iomega were around 66GB, so why isn't there at least 66GB of free space? I have not run Time Machine since upgrading, so there is no way the TM backup set can have somehow expanded to fill up the additional space. I have run Disk Utility and tried repairing the drive, but this has made no difference. I then selected the Time Machine backup set on the iomega drive, which is a folder named "Backups.backupdb", and hit Cmd-I to get info. The get info window popped up and said it was calculating the size of the item. Some six-and-a-half hours later, it finally concluded its calculations and told me that the backup set is... wait for it... 4.54TB! (4,458,364,261,372B to be precise...)
What is going on? I'm aware that SL uses a different basis to measure disk space, but this does not explain where 66GB of freed up space has suddenly "disappeared" to, or why this backup set appears to be 14 times the physical size of the disk it's on!
Am I going to have to erase the drive and lose all my previous TM backups, or is there some other way around this?
Thanks in advance,
Rob

After you selected move to Trash, did you remember to then empty the Trash? When you move something to the Trash the Finder puts it in the invisible Trash folder of the drive in question, and there it stays until the Trash is emptied with the drive mounted.
I have many crackpop theories about things, and one of them is that Apple has somehow messed up the Finder's ability to calculate sizes in the newly rewritten Snow Leopard Finder. Mind you, Finder has not been very good at doing this for a very long time anyway, but it seems to me it has gotten even worse. Nonetheless it should be able to get an answer that makes sense using the GetInfo function for a drive, although it will take longer than it seems to me it ought to do (but in the range of minutes rather than hours). Thus GetInfo on my Time drive shows
Capacity 249.93GB
Available 140.95GB
Used 108.97GB
A result returned remarkably quickly (for a change). Using the disk usuage command in Terminal, where the results returned are shown in the "old" size format rather than the new PR influenced format, shows this:
NoobiX:~ francine$ sudo du -cxhd 1 /Volumes/Time
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Terminal takes a bit of time to return the above results, but again it is in the range of some minutes, not hours. If you DID remember to empty the Trash after moving the files to it, you might try running the du command in Terminal to see where the stuff is.
Copy and paste this into Terminal
sudo du -cxhd 1
press the spacebar, then drag and drop the mounted volume into the Terminal from the Desktop. Press return, enter your admin password (which is not echoed to the screen in any way whatsoever), press return again, and go have a cup of coffee while the sizes are calculated.
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Iweb opens with a blank default page..where has my site gone?

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Where has Sepia filter gone?

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New Hard Disk/Space Gone

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HT2905 Where has Display Duplicates gone in iTunes 11

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Where has search view gone in Leopard

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Below is a feedback that I have sent to Apple regarding my user experience with Leopard and how things have changed, with the disappointing loss of features and functionality that was present in Tiger. I place this oversight, on Apple's part, on the same level of the disappearance of the hierarchical menus on folder in the Dock. For me it is worse as I never actually used folders in the Dock this way. I do understand the frustrations of those that do though.
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