Windows 10: Data folders unreasonably large

So my C: storage was filling up, and I wanted to find the reason. I found my user folder to be around 10GB large. However, I checked every single subfolder within the said folder, and the numbers don't add up. In fact, none of the subfolders even got to a gigabyte-level data amount. So what is taking up so much space?

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Files & Folders View as medium or large Icons

To assist you better, we would suggest that you try to follow the steps below:

• Open File Explorer.
• Once you are viewing a folder, right click an empty space within the File Explorer window and select View from the dialogue menu, then choose Large or any icon you wanted to use. Alternatively, you can use the following shortcut keys on the keyboard to
  change your View settings:

• CTRL + SHIFT + 1 Extra Large
• CTRL + SHIFT + 2 Large icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 3 Medium Icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 4 Small Icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 5 List
• CTRL + SHIFT + 6 Details
• CTRL + SHIFT + 7 Tiles
• CTRL + SHIFT + 8 Content

3. Once you have the view set, you can make it the default view for

every folder.

4. Click Apply, then click OK.

Update us on the result.

 

Large thumbnails as default to entire folders. Is possible?

Hi Kris,

We'd love to help you out with your concern.

You can set large thumbnails as default by doing the following steps:

• Go to the folder that you want to change the view settings and set it to Large view.
• Click on View tab, then click Options (Note: If a menu drops down, select
  Change folder and search options).
  
• From Options, click on the View tab, then click on the
  Apply to Foldersbutton.
• Click on OK.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Backing up moderate/large amounts of data?

There was never any suggestion to use 500GB drives rather, keep data to backup limited to 500GB chunks. It's all about organization. Organize your data directory so that folders for example do not contain more than 500GB or so. The OP's question was about backup of data and the time involved to do so. Obviously smaller amounts of data will backup faster.

You can have large capacity drives, nothing wrong with that. Just organize them so that you can back them up efficiently.