File size moved doesn't equal space freed up.

[Dexahol]

This is odd. In an effort to free up some space on my C drive, I moved a "storage" folder, that was approx. 2G's to another drive. In doing so, I only freed up around 350 mb's of space. Any ideas what might be going on here?

Thanks all.

Dex

[104456]

Hi Dex
Have you tried defragging the drive as it may read more accurate afterwards?

[Dexahol]

Yeah, I thought about that after I posted, but it does seem like a huge miss-report. My C drive takes about an hour to defrag, so I'll give that a shot as soon as I'm finished with what I'm doing.

[Teknophobia]

Nothing to do with hidden files or compression is it? Like you said, very big difference!

TEk

[Dexahol]

Defrag did it, although, in an indirect way. When I ran Speed Disk, it said there were lost clusters, and I needed to run Disk Doctor. Disk Doctor found, and fixed, the lost clusters, and I got my 2 gig back.

Thanks 104456 and Techno.

Dex