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  1. I deleted a game directory, Windows still shows it taking up storage. When I try to delete...


    I deleted a game directory, Windows still shows it taking up storage. When I try to delete it through settings, Windows can't find the specified file or directory

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    MOHITLAWANIYA, Jul 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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  2. I deleted a game directory, Windows still shows it taking up storage. When I try to delete it through settings, Windows can't find the specified file or directory

    I deleted a game directory, Windows still shows it taking up storage. When I try to delete it through settings, Windows can't find the specified file or directory. I don't have enough storage to reinstall the game and properly uninstall it, either.

    ***moved from Surface / Surface Pro / Surface Pro 7+ / Performance and maintenance***
     
    bigj333_684, Jul 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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  3. Drone Win User
    Directory Size Utility

    First of all nice utility, Mindweaver!
    Second of all, it's so nice to see that this section ain't dead.

    I have a few questions/suggestions, maybe you'd want to see ...
    • maybe you rename Get Folder button caption to something more intuitive? Add Folder, Get Folder Size, Check Folder Size or something like that?
    • Could you add subfolder files to the right pane? (it can be a tickbox with include sub dirs)
    • maybe you also add export list to excel?
    • there's delete file button maybe you add delete folder button too?
    • and finally maybe you can add UP button for directories?
     
  4. I deleted a game directory, Windows still shows it taking up storage. When I try to delete...

    CLI script to delete all blobs in a directory but NOT delete the directory itself

    I have this script and need to delete all blobs inside of a directory, BUT the directory cannot be deleted. I am doing this with a task in Azure DevOps. Here is my script:

    az storage blob delete-batch --account-name "mystorageaccount" --source "mycontainer" --pattern mydirectory/*

    According to the Microsoft documentation az storage blob,
    you can see it shows this script to do that:

    Delete all the blobs in a directory named "dir" in a container named "mycontainer".

    Azure CLI
    I have tried this code and it still deletes the entire directory.

    What is the correct code to do this please?

    Thank you for your help!
     
    DevOps Engineer, Jul 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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