I keep losing GB after downloading OBS even though I only recorded a few minutes and moved the files to a hard disk

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LolHelloThere

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I downloaded OBS yesterday and recorded two videos, one being around 4 minutes and the other being around 2. My laptop had had at least 17 GB free, but since yesterday, even after doing the disk cleanup and deleting temporary files, as well as moving my recorded videos to another location, it's still gone down to 11 GB. Actually, scratch that, it just moved down to 10.8. Is there a way to stop this from happening??

This is my last log: https://obsproject.com/logs/r5XNAry2MHrHBlA7
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

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Did you just Delete the files? if yes, the problem is you (not understanding Windows Operating System) ... unfortunately
Deleting local drive (not USB/removeable media) files in Windows, typically, send files to the Recycle Bin, it does NOT remove them from your drive. This behavior has been standard for 20+ (?) years. Moving also does not remove the file. again.. standard OS behavior

Go check your Recycle Bin
Shift-Delete immediately permanently deletes a file (with no Undo option, so be careful)

And if that is a SSD, not HDD, realize that running a drive full is a great way to prematurely brick (ruin) the SSD.
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

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rockbottom said:
Even an rust HDD needs enough free space to run defrag correctly.
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true, but a HDD doesn't have the wear levelling considerations of flash. free space is important for performant operations with a HDD, but rarely will a HDD fail because its full. I've had friends ignore my advice, run a SSD at near full, brick the SSD and lose irreplaceable data. me being me, I wasn't sympathetic, as I had warned them ahead of time
 
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LolHelloThere

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Lawrence_SoCal said:
Did you just Delete the files? if yes, the problem is you (not understanding Windows Operating System) ... unfortunately
Deleting local drive (not USB/removeable media) files in Windows, typically, send files to the Recycle Bin, it does NOT remove them from your drive. This behavior has been standard for 20+ (?) years. Moving also does not remove the file. again.. standard OS behavior

Go check your Recycle Bin
Shift-Delete immediately permanently deletes a file (with no Undo option, so be careful)

And if that is a SSD, not HDD, realize that running a drive full is a great way to prematurely brick (ruin) the SSD.
Click to expand...
Yeah, I deleted all the files from the Recycle Bin after moving the videos to a hard drive, including a bunch of things I didn't need, and I'm still losing GB. Now I'm down to 10.6 GB
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

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I don't have this issue
You are really low on RAM, so have you checked your OS SWAP file? Or other temp files (OS or \<User>\AppData)?

And beware using WiFi to livestream
 
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