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Discus and support Why are there 3 to 5 copies of everything that's backed up in the File History folder? And... in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; I am looking up what is taking up so much of my storage space. I have a 1TB internal M.2 PCIe NVMe 3.0 SSD and AND! a 2TB 2.5 SATA SSD and I just... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by RaymondDunne1, Oct 5, 2023.

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    Why are there 3 to 5 copies of everything that's backed up in the File History folder? And...


    I am looking up what is taking up so much of my storage space. I have a 1TB internal M.2 PCIe NVMe 3.0 SSD and AND! a 2TB 2.5 SATA SSD and I just happened to notice that they're both getting filled up much faster than they should be considering I just got a 6TB external storage drive for my own backup solution as I am not at all happy with the results of cloud storage. I have lost tons of data because of these so called "solutions". I'm done with any of it. I'll keep what's left of what I had locally so that I'll know what's going on with my data. Anyway, I have found that pagefile.sys and i

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