Hi, I download old TV series & movies from uTorrent regularly. The movies take up so much hd space that I attached an external 250gb hard drive and I channelled the torrent downloads to it, leaving my main hd(drive D 35gb)free. Yesterday I cleaned my drive D(my main hd)and it had 13.5gb free. I continued my torrent download all last night and today I checked, and there are no torrent download files going to D(all are going to external drive H, as they should), and I added no new files to D, but D now reads only 9+gb free. I cleaned D and it still has only 9+gb free on it. None of the torrent files are on D any more--they are all on H(external 250gb drive) as they should be. Do you have any suggestions for where the 4gb missing from D went? I don't see any new files obvious increases in used space on D that would account for it. Thanks, Ron reb286

Use the windows search function to look for files name "*.*" over 50mb in size. Then sort the results by date created. -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com

Is your Recycle Bin and the Recycler folder empty? Life's more painless for the brainless.

Are you sure that your torrent client isn't storing downloads in progress in one directory and completed ones in another? I seem to remember that utorrent can do that

Yes, according to u-torrent"s properties the user can designate where to store "in progress" downloads and separately "finished downloads". I designated my external drive H for both. A very handy option. I found 3 of the missing gb in Nortons protected trash bin. I deleted them from the bin and now show 12 gb on drive D(main drive). I'm still not back to the 13gb I had yesterday but I'm still looking. The total size reading I get after disk clean never seems reliable, even when taken just a few hours apart. It's probably okay, though, close enough for an amateur. It goes from as low as 6gb to 13gb after a cleaning. I will never completely understand it. Thanks for the help, Ron reb286