Full C despite deleting 1 gig - FAT32 not compressing?

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Dann - 26 Nov 2003 14:41 GMT

I have a 2-gig C drive, got a "disk full" error, deleted
nearly a gig of image files, yet the disk is still full.

Have defragged and scanned. Fat32 seems not to have
compressed the drive since then.

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Tim Slattery - 26 Nov 2003 17:34 GMT

>I have a 2-gig C drive, got a "disk full" error, deleted
>nearly a gig of image files, yet the disk is still full.

>Have defragged and scanned. Fat32 seems not to have
>compressed the drive since then.

Depending on how you deleted the files, they may have been moved to
the recycle bin. If that's the case, they still occupy space on your
disk until you empty the bin. So that's your next step.

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Dann - 26 Nov 2003 17:55 GMT

I did delete them, empty recycle bin as I was trying to
recover disk space - even searched the hard drive for
those files to see if they were tucked somewhere, didn't
find them. Any hints?

Thanks much -

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Jeff Richards - 26 Nov 2003 21:49 GMT

Why have you mentioned compression, and exactly what are you looking at when
you see the disk used space and the disk free space?

Is it possible that there is another recycle bin (such as Norton's)
installed on the machine?
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Jeff Richards
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> I did delete them, empty recycle bin as I was trying to
> recover disk space - even searched the hard drive for
> those files to see if they were tucked somewhere, didn't
> find them. Any hints?
>
> Thanks much -

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philo - 27 Nov 2003 00:27 GMT

if you are using norton utilities
you must also delete norton protected recycle bin

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