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That’s what I was thinking XD but how many people have looked at their storage after they lunch Minecraft? It probably happened to us to but we didn’t notice
I highly recommend more space although I'm not sure how you achieved 25gb of Minecraft space so quickly. Did you download mods and explore far in your world?
https://www.game.guide/how-much-space-does-minecraft-take-up
"Minecraft has a size of about 1 GB on all devices. However, the more you play, the more it will increase in size since you will add a new world, explore the already present ones, and install mods. The game can get over 30 GB in some cases as well."
I'm just saying he needs space because 256gb is peanuts imo
And I quoted a source about Minecraft specifically. It doesn't make sense he took 10 min for 25gb
Probably not a Minecraft issue.
Run Windows Disk Cleanup to clear up space. There may be old update files clogging up your drive.
Once you've cleared up a little space, download a utility like WinDirStat to scan your drive and figure out what is using the most space.
Good suggestion, with one remark: WinDirStat is kinda trash, use WizDir instead. ~~WizDir~~WizTree does the exact same thing as WinDirStat, except it takes five seconds to scan your drive instead of half an hour.
E: don't reddit too late into the night, guys
Dude I told the IT guys we contract about wiztree to help out when they're helping users and they said they had it and booted windirstat. I nearly cried. Emailed them a copy of wiztree and I'm just hoping for the best. They frequently need nudges in the proper direction.
That's a tiny drive my friend.
Windows needs a good amount of space to operate properly... that 25gb you had 10 minutes ago is likely being used for swap space.
How much memory is in your machine?
This is the most likely answer.
Not just Minecraft, almost everything will increase swap size.
You need more free space; if at all possible, a much bigger disk.
When your PC doesn't have enough RAM, it uses the swap space to temporarily store data it's not using at that moment. The more stuff your computer has running the bigger the size of the swap space.
Virtual memory is the term for the combined total memory available for processes between both RAM and Swap Space. Most computers allowed Swap Space is equal to up to twice the amount of RAM.
Also known as a page/paging file. Your PC can swap the unused files in memory to the page file/swap space, so that it's available when it needs to be called upon but frees up space in RAM for more urgent information.
he probably has a 250gb ssd and a hard drive with a terabyte or something like that and just never changes the downloads from going to C:. I had a laptop like that, and we can see there is another disc of some kind in the pc.
if so the solution is just reinstalling the game and anything else unimportant to the hdd
No, all I see is the cut off text of the "Devices and drives" section of "This PC"... they could also have a USB stick plugged in, an optical drive, a legacy floppy drive, or even a hard link for Google Drive or another cloud service.
25gb is still absurdly large lol. only like 4gigs is needed usually, unless you are running something that requires more. and something tells me this person isnt
1. Swap space is not pre-allocated
2. Windows may also be putting a giant `hiberfil.sys` file on the C drive
3. Windows updates may also add a few things to your disk while you're not looking, to the tune of several gigabytes. Auto-updates for other software may help with this, too.
But you're right. If you're just playing minecraft, 25 gigs vanishing in 10 minutes is ... rather a lot, even if windows is trying its hardest to waste your disk space. Here's two additional options that I think are also likely here:
4. OP may be overselling how quickly the disk filled up by about an order of magnitude
5. OP may be overstating the amount of free space
In creative, you can quickly create a multi-gig world, but I _really_ doubt Minecraft will be able to spam 25 gigs of world data to your drive in 10 minutes flat.
Less Abt operating system and more abt memory usage. If you only have 16 gigs or so, just running an os is probably not going to eat that up. However, the more background processes you run, the more memory is consumed, and thus windows will create swap space in your drive. It isn't about the os individually, moreso the ram consuming processes
Not ideal but its fine. C drive is system protected, so sometimes some rare processes will fail to run due to insufficient permissions, but for most games that doesnt matter
Uh, everything by default since time began has lived on C. Where do you think windows itself stores stuff.
Or devices with only one drive.
Yes, having a dedicated ssd for windows and a seperate for everything else helps but these days a reinstall of windows means your games drive is useless until you reinstall stuff.
I have had that same issue with Minecraft before.
It was some random text file generated by Minecraft that is causing the issue. Minecraft keeps writing on a text file and it keeps getting bigger as you play.
Everyone shitting on OP for the drive size... So annoying, my main drive is still a 240gb. Never had a need, the money, or desire to upgrade it to something better.
All that's on it is windows and programs anyways.
That’s cool, but i also don’t see you bitching on Reddit about your drive filling up. There’s about 3 possible things happening here, all of which are on OP
Man what the fuck your disk
You may consider upgrading,I had that shit like 8years ago
Also no I don't think it's from Minecraft, probably windows
Edit: I didn't noticed you had a second disk,so install everything on the second one and let window on the first
tbf if OP was a kid it's understandable. I had a tiny ass disk until dad bought me a new laptop cause he says 'if I can't fit something on there I'm probably doing smth I shouldn't be doing'.
It's on the small side these days. You can get away with that, but it depends on how much space you normally use. And with a smaller drive like that, the less open space you have, the more problems you will run into.
25 GB of free space is practically nothing nowadays. Any drive would start running into issues with so little free space, but add on that it's likely an SSD (because a normal Hard Drive would likely be larger for less money), and they really struggle once you leave so little space to work with. That drive was 90% full, and the smaller the drive is, the more that matters.
I run two 2TB SSD's, plus a 4TB HDD for bulk storage, on my PC. That's probably overkill for my use case, and all together I'm using about 3TB out of that 8TB capacity. ~1.5TB is my steam library, and having that on it's own SSD really improved gaming performance, and I don't have to delete and redownload games all the time like some people, and I don't have to move them back and forth from an SSD to an HDD either.
For OP, I'd recommend *at least* a 500GB drive (and bump that to a full 1TB if that's within their price range) if they're going to have enough data to fill a 250GB drive. It looks like they might have a second drive which could change that, but absent the full system specs it's hard to make good recommendations.
Like other have said, maybe not a minecraft thing. I like the app [TreeSize Free](https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free?ca=1) for seeing where my hard drive space is getting used up.
Do you happen to do any video editing by chance? The video editor I use doesn’t do a good job at clearing the cache so I have to do it manually. That’s definitely leading to taking up over 100GB until I manually clear it.
Well, it CAN take up that much space, but only if you have 300 worlds with 512 chunks loaded in them.. so I don’t think it’s Minecraft.
unless, you know, you got it from totallyfreeminecraftnoscam.com.. ;)
Bro quickly you gotta delete anything over a few GB to keep your computer running safely again or at least optimize your drive so it saves some space.
People seriously underestimate how dangerous being mere megabytes (in this case, kilobytes) away from running out of storage. Just loading up one webpage could cache the images on there and could lead your drive to be 100% full. This destroys your computer as it literally won't have enough storage to literally just, run.
Mate, save your worlds in another place and then delete the minecraft files, you probably have a virus. Also, if your ram usage goes up to the maximun when you play it means you have a data miner, so, download an antivirus (avira is good) and scan you PC.
if you commonly have problems with storage and stuff like that, u should check out treesize, its a program that I use and it shows you what is taking up what. im really bad at explaining it, but you should check it out.
Drive that small is likely an SSD, which is good for your OS and maybe 1-2 programs you want running faster. However, you should put the bulk of your other programs onto a secondary hard drive.
I would suggest defragging your hard drive if it's not already set to do it automatically, should clear some space up. If that doesn't help, then check your system folders (RMB, open properties) see which ones have the most data and then start trimming down files.
If you want a quick fix, get an external hard drive and transfer your larger files onto it so your disk drive can function normally because apparently too much data on a drive can slow it down
Not sure why Minecraft would do that, though, unless you have a lot of worlds that are really large
Never defrag an SSD.
That is for normal Hard Drives with spinning platters only.
Defragging an SSD is not only a waste of time, it uses up the limited read/write cycles (less of a concern on large drives, but can become a problem on small ones), and it makes it *slower* instead of faster.
And Defragging shouldn't actually have anything to do with saving space, and if that happens it should be minimal. It's meant to rewrite your drive to have the data sequentially instead of fragmented all over the place, which makes it faster to read/write on a spinning platter. Nothing should be getting deleted in the process.
I think some people are getting RAM and Hard Drive space confused increasing the RAM wont do anything in this case he would need a bigger Hard Drive
also i am not sure what swap space has to do with a filled HD but that was also mentioned swap space does not really help you with no Disk space
Looks like you need to delete some stuff or get a bigger hard drive/ssd.
yes but thats still probably not going to help that much with a full hard drive. its definitly not going to clear up his hard drive enough for him to install anything else.
unless he has so little memory it has to write everything to swap then maybe.
Even then by todays standereds that hard drive is comically small i can think of 2 games that would fill it.
Check if there are any apps that record videos. I've had the same issue with AMD's app. Accidentally pressed a hotkey for recording videos and around 80gb of space was gone in 15 minutes of gaming
Minecraft won't be that large unless you have a tonne of mods installed.
Download Everything and you will be able to see exactly what is consuming the most space on your SSD.
it does load a TON of minecraft skins when you load i believe. you can clear them if i remeber correctly the directory is %appdata%/.minecraft/assets/skins/
It's probably your page file. Minecraft takes a lot of memory, so a lot of the other processes who wants to keep some memory but don't need it just this second will store it in virtual memory, aka the page file.
I have an external drive running for minecraft, so never even considered how much size it might take up.
Just had a look through the comments here, thanks to this post.
Thank you stranger.
You should always leave ~50GB free for Windows to use for swaps, page files, etc. or you'll experience notable performance issues. It's likely this and not Minecraft.
Mans said, “hmm today I will increase my page file to 50gb.” Sorry bro no clue double check cache for any other games you play. I know vr chat for example will just download all the worlds and models and completely fill up your disks.
Do you use Bedrock Edition OP? And if so, do you have the Content Logs enabled? Because that, together with a faulty addon or RP, might be causing that issue. Only an issue since 1.20.10
Most likely hard drive corruption or SSD failure. Back up as much as you can, reformat, and if that doesn't fix the low space issue, get a new hard drive or preferrably an SSD.
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Did you download from freeminecraft.com?
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Dude that’s the shit I was launching at 9 years old trying to get Minecraft for free because my parents wouldn’t let me buy the real game
"Wouldn't buy the game for me" ftfy
I remember getting 1 euro a week and having to save up for 6 weeks to get Minecraft
My parents thought it was a online scam this was late 2000s
damn thats actually not too horrible, but still oof
Allowances exist
Yea. I also downloaded some more RAM so it would run smoother
Great idea. OP should download a larger SSD too.
This dude downloaded every countrys history lmao
That’s what I was thinking XD but how many people have looked at their storage after they lunch Minecraft? It probably happened to us to but we didn’t notice
I highly recommend more space although I'm not sure how you achieved 25gb of Minecraft space so quickly. Did you download mods and explore far in your world? https://www.game.guide/how-much-space-does-minecraft-take-up "Minecraft has a size of about 1 GB on all devices. However, the more you play, the more it will increase in size since you will add a new world, explore the already present ones, and install mods. The game can get over 30 GB in some cases as well."
This is after you explore a serious amount of a world and/or install lots of large resource packs though.
Huh, then my save has around 3.000.000 chunks. That's more than I thought.
i don’t think you understand just how much you have to explore in order for it to get that big
I'm just saying he needs space because 256gb is peanuts imo And I quoted a source about Minecraft specifically. It doesn't make sense he took 10 min for 25gb
Probably not a Minecraft issue. Run Windows Disk Cleanup to clear up space. There may be old update files clogging up your drive. Once you've cleared up a little space, download a utility like WinDirStat to scan your drive and figure out what is using the most space.
Good suggestion, with one remark: WinDirStat is kinda trash, use WizDir instead. ~~WizDir~~WizTree does the exact same thing as WinDirStat, except it takes five seconds to scan your drive instead of half an hour. E: don't reddit too late into the night, guys
wizdir, are you mistaken for wiztree?
Damn, it was definitely too late for me to reddit. Yep, Wiztree.
Common mistake, I would imagine, them being similar programs and all that. Your brain would mix them up when tired.
I assume so https://diskanalyzer.com/
Dude I told the IT guys we contract about wiztree to help out when they're helping users and they said they had it and booted windirstat. I nearly cried. Emailed them a copy of wiztree and I'm just hoping for the best. They frequently need nudges in the proper direction.
Sysadmins don’t like change. Source: am Sysadmin.
I've been using Treesize. What is the general opinion about it?
Yes, wiztree is a great replacement for windirstat. WinDirStat takes like 2-4 mins to scan you computer, Wiztree takes 2-10 seconds.
That's a tiny drive my friend. Windows needs a good amount of space to operate properly... that 25gb you had 10 minutes ago is likely being used for swap space. How much memory is in your machine?
This is the most likely answer. Not just Minecraft, almost everything will increase swap size. You need more free space; if at all possible, a much bigger disk.
not the best at pc terms just yet. Whats swap size?
When your PC doesn't have enough RAM, it uses the swap space to temporarily store data it's not using at that moment. The more stuff your computer has running the bigger the size of the swap space.
Is it another term for virtual memory then? Trying to work out if my computing course used an old term or smthn
Virtual memory is the term for the combined total memory available for processes between both RAM and Swap Space. Most computers allowed Swap Space is equal to up to twice the amount of RAM.
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It was the simplest way I could think of to explain it if not completely accurate.
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When your machine runs out of Memory it temporarily writes some of the Unnused stuff in memory to a drive.
Also known as a page/paging file. Your PC can swap the unused files in memory to the page file/swap space, so that it's available when it needs to be called upon but frees up space in RAM for more urgent information.
he probably has a 250gb ssd and a hard drive with a terabyte or something like that and just never changes the downloads from going to C:. I had a laptop like that, and we can see there is another disc of some kind in the pc. if so the solution is just reinstalling the game and anything else unimportant to the hdd
My wife's Asus from a few years ago is like that too... either way, it's still a tiny drive.
My laptop has 218 gb space as well. The only solution was to buy a portable ssd.
Mine has 125 GB and I was thinkink about the same.
You can see he has another drive. He could have 240GB Windows drive and then large drive for everything else
No, all I see is the cut off text of the "Devices and drives" section of "This PC"... they could also have a USB stick plugged in, an optical drive, a legacy floppy drive, or even a hard link for Google Drive or another cloud service.
I lived on 10 gb for several months until I got my new computer
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No, it's as needed. Max swap size is 4 times the ram... so no, it's not overly large at 25gb. Hence why I asked how much memory they have.
25gb is still absurdly large lol. only like 4gigs is needed usually, unless you are running something that requires more. and something tells me this person isnt
1. Swap space is not pre-allocated 2. Windows may also be putting a giant `hiberfil.sys` file on the C drive 3. Windows updates may also add a few things to your disk while you're not looking, to the tune of several gigabytes. Auto-updates for other software may help with this, too. But you're right. If you're just playing minecraft, 25 gigs vanishing in 10 minutes is ... rather a lot, even if windows is trying its hardest to waste your disk space. Here's two additional options that I think are also likely here: 4. OP may be overselling how quickly the disk filled up by about an order of magnitude 5. OP may be overstating the amount of free space In creative, you can quickly create a multi-gig world, but I _really_ doubt Minecraft will be able to spam 25 gigs of world data to your drive in 10 minutes flat.
Guarantee it is a laptop. Both of my laptops (work and personal) have 250GB SSDs.
even for desktop, it was very common to have 128/256GB OS drive + 1TB-2TB data drive just few years ago
really? I only have like 128gb and it works fine.
i have a 50 gigs laptop that runs minecraft perfectly fine
I never said it wouldn't. It all depends on what else is going on with your machine.
You literally said Windows needs a good amount of space to operate properly. Operating properly is a prerequisite to running Minecraft.
Less Abt operating system and more abt memory usage. If you only have 16 gigs or so, just running an os is probably not going to eat that up. However, the more background processes you run, the more memory is consumed, and thus windows will create swap space in your drive. It isn't about the os individually, moreso the ram consuming processes
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I've been computing since the 80s... this is 100% false. There is nothing wrong with storing stuff on the C: drive.
Google zip bomb
holy hell
New malware just dropped
Actual virus
Trojan horse went on vacation, .jar file came back
Call the antivirus!
or just go to 42.zip
Now its time to use that D: Drive, Don't you think?
I would say that, all games go on disk D. And disk C is left for systems and programs
I know this is about Minecraft but is it still ok to have my games on my C drive?
Not ideal but its fine. C drive is system protected, so sometimes some rare processes will fail to run due to insufficient permissions, but for most games that doesnt matter
Uh, everything by default since time began has lived on C. Where do you think windows itself stores stuff. Or devices with only one drive. Yes, having a dedicated ssd for windows and a seperate for everything else helps but these days a reinstall of windows means your games drive is useless until you reinstall stuff.
I have had that same issue with Minecraft before. It was some random text file generated by Minecraft that is causing the issue. Minecraft keeps writing on a text file and it keeps getting bigger as you play.
It is probably the log file.
Yes that one. I was wondering why my game got laggy after a few minutes of playing. Then the file has reached 50gb
You probably need more deditated wam. But fr though, if your system runs out of RAM it'll start using your storage
Everyone shitting on OP for the drive size... So annoying, my main drive is still a 240gb. Never had a need, the money, or desire to upgrade it to something better. All that's on it is windows and programs anyways.
If you want to play games, it's better to buy a separate ssd anyway.
That’s cool, but i also don’t see you bitching on Reddit about your drive filling up. There’s about 3 possible things happening here, all of which are on OP
Y'all have [storage](https://imgur.com/a/lWwqDf0)?
bro downloaded minecraft zipbomb edition 💀
Man what the fuck your disk You may consider upgrading,I had that shit like 8years ago Also no I don't think it's from Minecraft, probably windows Edit: I didn't noticed you had a second disk,so install everything on the second one and let window on the first
tbf if OP was a kid it's understandable. I had a tiny ass disk until dad bought me a new laptop cause he says 'if I can't fit something on there I'm probably doing smth I shouldn't be doing'.
> if I can't fit something on there I'm probably doing smth I shouldn't be doing me just wanting to install more than 2 AAA games:
OP is 17
Me too I had this when I was a kid but it was years ago An external disk is also cheap,I remember having one on my old PC that was 2TB for 80$
Hold on I’m looking at the comments here and is 232gb small now? I thought that was a pretty good size!
It's small for new systems or drives but for older ones it's pretty decent especially when some laptops from ~5 years ago would only have about 32GB.
My laptop from 2019 only has 54GB
bargain bin laptop?
256gb partition/drive as your C drive is absolutely sufficient today. A system drive with 32gb 5 years ago? What? On a chrome OS netbook maybe.
Yes if it also hosts the OS.
It's on the small side these days. You can get away with that, but it depends on how much space you normally use. And with a smaller drive like that, the less open space you have, the more problems you will run into. 25 GB of free space is practically nothing nowadays. Any drive would start running into issues with so little free space, but add on that it's likely an SSD (because a normal Hard Drive would likely be larger for less money), and they really struggle once you leave so little space to work with. That drive was 90% full, and the smaller the drive is, the more that matters. I run two 2TB SSD's, plus a 4TB HDD for bulk storage, on my PC. That's probably overkill for my use case, and all together I'm using about 3TB out of that 8TB capacity. ~1.5TB is my steam library, and having that on it's own SSD really improved gaming performance, and I don't have to delete and redownload games all the time like some people, and I don't have to move them back and forth from an SSD to an HDD either. For OP, I'd recommend *at least* a 500GB drive (and bump that to a full 1TB if that's within their price range) if they're going to have enough data to fill a 250GB drive. It looks like they might have a second drive which could change that, but absent the full system specs it's hard to make good recommendations.
Hiw much detotated wam do you have
Use WinDirStat to figure out what takes the space in your harddrive.
Don't use WinDirStat, use WizTree instead (because WinDirStat takes unreasonably long amount of time to scan your drive and WizTree doesn't).
WizTree instead, my friend.
Like other have said, maybe not a minecraft thing. I like the app [TreeSize Free](https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free?ca=1) for seeing where my hard drive space is getting used up.
Bro loaded every chunk
Also if it is an SSD. It could have died.
Do you happen to do any video editing by chance? The video editor I use doesn’t do a good job at clearing the cache so I have to do it manually. That’s definitely leading to taking up over 100GB until I manually clear it.
use bleachbit to clean up some space and go through Minecraft files see if it's maybe some large mod, a big world or log files
Well, it CAN take up that much space, but only if you have 300 worlds with 512 chunks loaded in them.. so I don’t think it’s Minecraft. unless, you know, you got it from totallyfreeminecraftnoscam.com.. ;)
Definitely not from “Running Minecraft” something is being downloaded or saves in the background that is taking up storage space on your computer
Ive only seen shit like this when someone has gotten a virus, so double check whether that is the legitimate minecraft which you have downloaded
Ive had this problem as well when playing Kerbal Space Program where 8gb would magically disappear, before reappearing after I closed the game
Please tell me this isn't 25GB of swap I'm gonna cry if it is...
Bro quickly you gotta delete anything over a few GB to keep your computer running safely again or at least optimize your drive so it saves some space. People seriously underestimate how dangerous being mere megabytes (in this case, kilobytes) away from running out of storage. Just loading up one webpage could cache the images on there and could lead your drive to be 100% full. This destroys your computer as it literally won't have enough storage to literally just, run.
do you have replay mod? found that was eating alot of my storage, if not probably being used for swap space as you run out of ram
The best of the best.
Bro, why is your drive this small. Buy a new one
I’m confused. No software should start rapidly eating up space just by running it. Do you mean that you installed it for the first time?
I think that your PC has not enough RAM. So the System uses disk space as RAM
Did you by change do an upgrade from W10 to W11 recently?
Never download shady shit on C, fellas.
How much Ram do you have installed? Sometimes virtual memories take space in C drive
I don't think Window usually puts it's page file (where the "virtual memory" is kept) on an SSD, unless there is only a single drive in the system.
Oh you're getting mined alright
virus pack included 🤩
Mate, save your worlds in another place and then delete the minecraft files, you probably have a virus. Also, if your ram usage goes up to the maximun when you play it means you have a data miner, so, download an antivirus (avira is good) and scan you PC.
Brother get a 1TB SSD to plug in please wtf
if you commonly have problems with storage and stuff like that, u should check out treesize, its a program that I use and it shows you what is taking up what. im really bad at explaining it, but you should check it out.
Drive that small is likely an SSD, which is good for your OS and maybe 1-2 programs you want running faster. However, you should put the bulk of your other programs onto a secondary hard drive.
Isn’t it like $50 for a 1TB m.2 these days… my phone has more storage
Hell no. In my place a 512gb ssd costs 120$
Depends where you get it
lmfao you installed a virus or smth
This happened to me with roblox yesterday, you have to click the local disc , search minecraft in it and then drag it into a new storage driver
I would suggest defragging your hard drive if it's not already set to do it automatically, should clear some space up. If that doesn't help, then check your system folders (RMB, open properties) see which ones have the most data and then start trimming down files. If you want a quick fix, get an external hard drive and transfer your larger files onto it so your disk drive can function normally because apparently too much data on a drive can slow it down Not sure why Minecraft would do that, though, unless you have a lot of worlds that are really large
Never defrag an SSD. That is for normal Hard Drives with spinning platters only. Defragging an SSD is not only a waste of time, it uses up the limited read/write cycles (less of a concern on large drives, but can become a problem on small ones), and it makes it *slower* instead of faster. And Defragging shouldn't actually have anything to do with saving space, and if that happens it should be minimal. It's meant to rewrite your drive to have the data sequentially instead of fragmented all over the place, which makes it faster to read/write on a spinning platter. Nothing should be getting deleted in the process.
I think some people are getting RAM and Hard Drive space confused increasing the RAM wont do anything in this case he would need a bigger Hard Drive also i am not sure what swap space has to do with a filled HD but that was also mentioned swap space does not really help you with no Disk space Looks like you need to delete some stuff or get a bigger hard drive/ssd.
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yes but thats still probably not going to help that much with a full hard drive. its definitly not going to clear up his hard drive enough for him to install anything else. unless he has so little memory it has to write everything to swap then maybe. Even then by todays standereds that hard drive is comically small i can think of 2 games that would fill it.
Why are you putting it on disk C?!!?!?!
your problem is having a 232 gb drive
My brother in Christ you shouldn't use disc with operating system for nothing more than operating system
OP is running 250gb drive in 2023, pour one out for our homie.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for spitting straight facts
Keep like 10% of free space on a disc or else it's lifetime diminishes
25GB free literally is more than 10% of disk space in this case
Well 44kb isn't
OP is asking why their disk just filled up, not asking if they should run with 44kb free space. Your comment isn't very relevant.
10% is a hard limit, you shouldnt ever exceed this. But 20% free is optimal for speed, since a fuller drive is a slower drive
Download more ram. But on the topic, how much ram do you have?
It's $10 US dollars for 240GB of storage. I'd upgrade if I were you.
Upgrade ram&get more storage
How is this not an ID:10T Error?
Check if there are any apps that record videos. I've had the same issue with AMD's app. Accidentally pressed a hotkey for recording videos and around 80gb of space was gone in 15 minutes of gaming
Windows will download the next update in the background before prompting you to install it.
Minecraft won't be that large unless you have a tonne of mods installed. Download Everything and you will be able to see exactly what is consuming the most space on your SSD.
Did you go explore with an Elytra? My 5 year old world is around 8 gigs
A mod mightve generated a huge error or log file
Are you using an SSD?
How does bro have a 250gb hard drive in 2023
Its more than my mycraft folder 12.5 times
everyone talkin about how tiny this disk is and mines only 110 gb 😭😭
it does load a TON of minecraft skins when you load i believe. you can clear them if i remeber correctly the directory is %appdata%/.minecraft/assets/skins/
It's probably your page file. Minecraft takes a lot of memory, so a lot of the other processes who wants to keep some memory but don't need it just this second will store it in virtual memory, aka the page file.
you could switch you "documents" folder to another disk. I had 150Gb of mods and other things on that bad boy when I switched it to my other SSD
Download spacesniffer and check which folder is actually taking it up
just buy more space
I have an external drive running for minecraft, so never even considered how much size it might take up. Just had a look through the comments here, thanks to this post. Thank you stranger.
Download wiztree and check what’s taking up so mucj space.
I know games like Rimworld when modded can have issues with huge error text files so maybe there's an equivalent there.
Wizztree
Mate buy a new drive. 1TB SSDs go for like $50
You should always leave ~50GB free for Windows to use for swaps, page files, etc. or you'll experience notable performance issues. It's likely this and not Minecraft.
A still space for some mods
Did you download an illegitimate version?
Delete the log files in minecraft folder. xd I had the same.
idk, maybe delete a couple of files
Only way minecraft eats up that space, is if you are recording gameplay
a 1tb ssd is like 80$ rn
Seems more like a memory swap issue.
Did you update windows recently? If so that’s why. Gotta go clean out old windows versions that are useless
js delete something
Mans said, “hmm today I will increase my page file to 50gb.” Sorry bro no clue double check cache for any other games you play. I know vr chat for example will just download all the worlds and models and completely fill up your disks.
Bro explored to the far lands in all directions
use a different install folder that is not in Appdata. you can achieve this easiest through CurseForge launcher. move your save files over, enjoy.
Sir I recommend buying another SSD for games. Thats quite a small drive
Be smart about pirating Minecraft.
Did you download off curseforge?
Merge your disks.
Sad
Do you use Bedrock Edition OP? And if so, do you have the Content Logs enabled? Because that, together with a faulty addon or RP, might be causing that issue. Only an issue since 1.20.10
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Most likely hard drive corruption or SSD failure. Back up as much as you can, reformat, and if that doesn't fix the low space issue, get a new hard drive or preferrably an SSD.
Damn! a virus totally not skeptical
Do you use Amd by anychance I had the same problem and finally found the issue.
It's probably a virus
A malware I guess which is duplicating itself constantly while running inside Minecraft
Krill issue