I deleted a compressed file, now it just shows that it takes up space on my drive without actually taking up place

[YASHK241]

I tried to compress a 80 gb file, but it was stuck at 0 compressed for a while so i closed it. I then deleted the file. But now it shows that it takes up space on my drive, but when i actually check the total size of my drive by selecting all folders in the drive it does not add up. This means that the file is somehow still taking up space, at least according to the drive properties. Please help me fix this issue

[YASHK241]

[YASHK241]

Please someone help, i tried restarting, i dont know what to do

[davel23]

Run chkdsk /f on the drive.

[YASHK241]

it says it cannot run as the volume is in use. it is the onky drive i have

[davel23]

It should ask if you want to run it on reboot. Say yes, then reboot.

[YASHK241]

It should ask if you want to run it on reboot. Say yes, then reboot.

i did but it didnt work, i restarted but nothing happened

[YASHK241]

ok yeah it ran something but it still the same

[davel23]

When you selected all files on C: to check their properties did you have hidden and system files shown?

[YASHK241]

yes

[YASHK241]

also here, i had uninstalled all my games today morning and then i reinstalled them, but now with the exact same drive and same files, something went wrong, im not sure if its a problem with the compactor or what but i have no idea how to fix this

[YASHK241]

also this shows a different storage as well

[YASHK241]

are you done?

When you selected all files on C: to check their properties did you have hidden and system files shown?

[YASHK241]

i need help 😭

[davel23]

Download and run Space Sniffer. Make sure you run it as administrator.

[YASHK241]

i deleted a few files so it changed a bit, but space sniffer does find more hidden files but it is still not big enough to make sense of fthe 200 + gb difference

[davel23]

Find the results of the chkdsk in the Application log and post them.

[YASHK241]

Find the results of the chkdsk in the Application log and post them.

where is the application log

[davel23]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-access-chkdsk-logreport/9dca9ba8-9e80-44b6-a879-9d1bba42090b

[YASHK241]

[davel23]

That's not it.

[YASHK241]

let me run it again

[YASHK241]

it is not there

[YASHK241]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/run-chkdsk-now-cannot-find-log-files/915b4b7a-885d-4740-a104-4ba026405698

i used this but the logs are blank

[davel23]

I don't know what to tell you. Sounds like you have deeper problems unrelated to Freaky Compactor.

[YASHK241]

I USED WIZTREE AND FOUND A FOLDER THAT IS EXACTLY HOW MUCH SPACE IS TAKEN

[YASHK241]

but i am unable to delete it

[YASHK241]

YESS I DID IT

[Masamune3210]

DO NOT just randomly delete folders you don't know the origin of, especially if they are marked Hidden and/or System.

$Extend is a system folder and is used by modern versions of NTFS for things like Reparse data and the USN Journal. In your case, it was likely $TxF which was taking up the space, which is a location used by the system for a feature called Transactional NTFS.