Windows 10: Microsoft Photos & Video Studio using INSANE amount of data???

Okay... so, I never would have noticed this if it wasn't for Steam... so basically, as a bit of a background, I recently bought a few new games from Steam, and downloading them used a ton of data. I only have 500GB available through Mediacom before I get capped. Anyway, I got a message in my browser from my router telling me I was at 95% of my 500GB limit for the month, which I've NEVER reached before. So I looked--my phone had used about 150GB (I binge watch YouTube at 1440p); my PC was sitting at around 250GB. Other devices took up the rest to make the 95% used.

When I went in to see what apps were taking up what, it was MOSTLY as expected for this month... Youtube/Chrome combined taking over 130GB... Steam took about 80GB... (this was a one time occurrence as I don't usually download new Steam games), which is to be expected. Then, most of the others were random apps and games. But what shocked me... is the fact that Microsoft Photos and my video editing program (Corel VideoStudio Pro x7) were taking up over 30GB combined! This has NEVER happened before and makes no sense to me whatsoever. I've never used Corel for anything online, and I have photo backups turned OFF and I haven't used any functions of either programs that would require data usage... the only thing I can think of is that I have a NAS on my LAN. But typically NAS' don't use data. (Only reason I brought this up is because I store my projects and photo archive on my NAS. But they are on LAN in the next room over and should not be taking up any data.)

Any possible causes for this???




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Recovery of lost photo & video data?

My win 7 mozart was interupted in updating and when I reconnected it sync'd back to April so I've lost all the recent photos and videos some of great sentimental value - is there any way I could look and see if there are any photos or videoes left on the
machine? Are there any data recovery programs that could be used? MS chat suggested this forum. Thanks for any help. Richard

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

 

Sync Photos to Studio

When you login to the Studio and select Photos & Videos, there is an Import option for you to import photos from your PC. Once imported, the photos will show up on your device in the Favorites section of the Camera App.