I was gonna remove my text from the post when I stopped streaming but now? Nah. Fuck it.

Look. I have a twitch.

  • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    My dang /windows directory is like 160 GB and as far as I can tell there’s nothing abnormal going on! It’s infuriating. It’s just growing slowly.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      As someone who admins Windows systems for a living as part of my job, two options come to mind: Windows update files, or sync’d content from a file share.

      Network file shares that are mapped to a drive letter, and set to be “always available” or “available offline” end up in a hidden subfolder of the windows directory.

      Windows updates are stored there too.

      There’s also a small matter regarding log files. My best recommendation is to use something like windirstat or wiztree running as an administrator (so it can “see” all the files), which should tell you what directory or subfolder or file is taking up all that space.

      Good luck

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 months ago

    In my phone, never.
    In my tablet, this has happened more than once. And it still hurts, you never get used to it. Because it’s not just the apps, but the screenshots and memes in my messages, too.

  • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    8 months ago

    My phone’s at like 120/128 GB, I have 70 to 80 GB in apps, 90% of which I haven’t openened in the last year. But you better believe I’m not deleting those apps, cuz a) I still have pleeeenty of space and b) what if I need them some day.

    • force@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      it’s crazy how hard it is for me to use phone storage compared to computer storage. i used up 98% of 2 tb on my gaming laptop in like a few months, but i’ve had this phone for years have have 40,000 photos and videos and i only just recently reached 95% out of 256 gb (almost 190 gb of that being from images/videos, i have one singular video file filmed on the phone’s camera that is 8 gb)

      • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        8 months ago

        I highly recommend transcoding all your videos with ffmpeg, for me that reduces their size to anything from 10% - 25% of the original (100MB -> 20MB). I always use this command:

        ffmpeg input.mp4 -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 ouput.mp4

        (This will strip metadata, I was too lazy to figure out how to make it keep metadata). What I also do for most videos is turn them all into 1080p30 if they aren’t already.

        You can ask ChatGPT to make you a small script to apply that command to all files in a folder, I can’t remember how to do it off the top of my head.

        Edit: for linux run this in the folder with your videos:

        for file in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 "${file%.*}_transcoded.mp4"; done
  • TheControlled@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    Pft. Sucks to be you! I never need to delete apps or photos from my device lol. That’s because I use a carrier pigeon for all my (I really wish it was) instant communication needs. Photos? I can just draw it! Then whistle and wait 30 minutes for one of my pigeons who got lost to pick up my pre-school quality masterpiece, only to find that it still hasn’t delivered the other message to my mom. She lives in Alaska! It’s not that far!

    So yeah, I win.