Facebag Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Alright, so I'm having a pretty serious problem. A little while ago, I checked my hard disc space, and saw that I had less than 1 gig of free space. I wondered how this was possible. Well, upon checking programs and sizes in the control panel, I cam across something kind of shocking. According to the control panel, Oblvion takes up about 6,853 MB, which seemed normal. But then I checked the plug-ins. And according to the control panel, each plug-in is taking up 6,612 MB of disc space. How is this possible? And also, it reads that Oblivion Mod Manager and Operation Optimization take up 6,853 MB each, the same amount as the Oblivion game? How is this possible? How I am running out of disc space like this? Even with three copies of the game installed, it would not take up that much disc space. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccrab Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Actually Oblivion only takes about 6GB of hard disk space. For some reason Windows thinks that Oblivion and plugins each take the 6GB space. For example my control panel shows that both Oblivion and construction set take 6GB but if you right click your Oblivion folder It shows you the real size wich in my case is about 7GB because of some mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facebag Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 So my computer is misreading the amount of free disk space? Huh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 So my computer is misreading the amount of free disk space? Huh...No, just the add/remove programs part of the control panel. The free disk space read by your computer is what you have. If you're trying to find out what is taking up all your space, you might want to turn your attention toward things like folders full of pictures or movies. The joke of "250gb of downloaded porn, 20 gb for programs and games" is unfortunately a valid one. The stuff that shows under add/remove programs is never to be considered a complete list of what you have on your computer, but instead only shows things which have a registry attachment and an uninstall feature. Everything else will only be detected when you look at the folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facebag Posted February 5, 2010 Author Share Posted February 5, 2010 I wonder if there's anyway to scan for large folders. Complete with all mods and plug-ins, I don't think Oblivion could be taking up more than 15 gigs? What could be taking up all this space? I don't download many (or any) movies (as of yet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I wonder if there's anyway to scan for large folders. Complete with all mods and plug-ins, I don't think Oblivion could be taking up more than 15 gigs? What could be taking up all this space? I don't download many (or any) movies (as of yet).You can always bring up folder properties, and work your way through to find anything out of the ordinary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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