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AVAST Data Shredder filled up all my HD.
« on: July 29, 2017, 01:05:14 AM »
I ran data shredder (Shred deleted files) after upgrading to Premier. Only time it stopped is when my computer when to sleep. It continued the next morning and made it to 100%. Now almost all my space is gone, I have about 10% left. How do I fix this and get my space back? Everything I have researched does not seem to have a clear fix for this. I feel like I have already spent to much time trying to resolve this on my own..

Yes im updated to the latest version.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2017, 01:18:21 AM by BIG MYZ »

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Re: AVAST Data Shredder filled up all my HD.
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2017, 01:57:37 AM »
Just downloaded CCleaner finally found all the ~0045 files, filtered by size and found all the 204mb files that were taking up all the space. It was not fun since there was ALOT of them but thy are deleted and I got around 300GB back. For whatever reason they were hidden in my C:/ so i couldnt just delete the folder. I still feel like I am still missing some space but im sick of looking today.

Will this continue to be an issue or something I can do to avoid this happening again? Thanks for all the help Avast :-/

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Re: AVAST Data Shredder filled up all my HD.
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