Windows 10: Help when i delete some files it does not clear space it adds more storage

Hello I recently decide to clear some space on my laptop aspire v5-571 and I checked my storage I saw it went from 187 GB to 214 GB what's going on I'm freaking out what do I don't understand. Extra info I recently got Avira antivirus



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Clearing storage space

I'm trying to clear up some space. I've cleared and deleted all unwanted files, the issue is when I open up my storage it indicates that 'temporary files' are taking up 4.25GB of space, yet when I open it up it shows only 50MB worth of data to clear. I have
previously cleared these files yet my laptop storage still seems to think its there.

Any ideas why? and what I should do?

Thanks

 

storage space

Hi Beccs

1

What size internal storage do you have on your PC, is that a 32GB (29.1GB usable)drive or do you have more storage than that on your system?

2

In the meantime try this, if this does not clear enough space, please let me know:

Open File Explorer

Click on your hard drive

On the Manage Tab, click Cleanup

Let Disk Cleanup do its initial scan

Select Everything in the list and choose Delete

Start Disk Cleanup again

Let Disk Cleanup do its initial scan

This time in the resulting dialog, click 'Cleanup System Files'

Let Disk Cleanup run another scan

Select Everything in the list and choose Delete

 

Storage Spaces capacity error

Hi, Thanks for your response.

But this does not explain why 'storage spaces' says my pool is full and 'My PC' says i have 7.5 tb of space available?

'My PC' IS correct, 'storage spaces is incorrect. But 'storage spaces' will not let me add any new files/data.

I did run Disk cleanup like you suggested but there were no files to clean in the 'storage spaces' pool.

The pool is only used to store media files. Not OS.

Please help x