From: Man@the.keyboard   
      
   On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 10:57:16 -0600, VanguardLH  wrote:   
      
   >Maria Sophia  wrote:   
   >   
   >> If you're still seeing unexplained space loss, these are worth checking:   
   >>   
   >>  C:\Windows\LiveKernelReports   
   >>       Kernel dumps can be hundreds of MB each, especially if a driver is   
   >>       misbehaving.   
      
    Oh. Thanks, I had a couple of small ones of those from 2014. Trivial   
   use of space on a 3 TB drive but as they ere old I binned them anyway.   
   >>   
   >>  C:\Windows\Minidump   
   >>       Traditional BSOD dumps. Usually small, but they add up.   
      
    I have never had a BSOD on this box but I did have two very small   
   dumps in this Folder. . As those, too, were from Pre-Cambriam   
   times, I removed them.   
      
    I hope Windows didn't treasure them.   
      
   >   
   >The dump files are datestamped in their filenames, so multiple minidump   
   >log files could reside there.   
   >   
   >>  C:\Windows\Memory.dmp   
   >>       A full memory dump can be several gigabytes on its own.   
      
    Yeah, well, I had one of those on an old Win-9x box some decades ago   
   but I've yet to have one on my "new" 2013 machine.   
      
    Thank you for prompting me to look.   
      
   >   
   >In this case, it's the same filename, so the file, if it exists, gets   
   >overwritten.   
      
    That may or may not be a good idea. It'll save HD space but if your   
   box is crashing a lot it may not always be the same program doing the   
   nasties.   
      
    Still, is anyone ever going to *read* a 64 GigglyBite memory dump? I   
   don't think I ever fully read one when they were 8 Meggies. I scanned   
   the first few lines, yes, but reading the entire dump was not   
   something I ever looked forwards to. :)   
      
   > If present, it will be the size of your RAM, so disk   
   >consumption depends on how much RAM you have.  If, for example, you have   
   >64GB of RAM, likely you also have 1TB, or lots more, for drive capacity,   
   >so the loss for the memory.dmp file is likely trivial.   
   >   
   >>  %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp   
   >>       Some apps leave behind enormous temp files that never auto-clean.   
      
    Good stuff, Sir, thank you. :)   
      
    Uhhhmmm, it may be a rather good idea *not* to search for "Temp"   
   (without the quotes, in your chosen file-manager using C:\ as the   
   target.   
      
    Including things like "SystemProfile*" and "Template*", there could   
   be thousands of the buggers. :)   
      
    How do I know? Guess.   
      
                                                    J.   
      
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