Hi all, my user profile has 100 gig somewhere in it and i can't find where!

I transferred all my data to the other in build drive, all that visually remains within my user folder, under my profile is some adobe programs, and a few empty folders. Although when i back up out of my profile right click and go to properties, it shows 103 gig which is no where to be seen with my profile files!!

Are these hidden files or something? I can't get my head around what would need 100 gig!

It's taking up the majority of my operating systems hard drive. I've thinking about just deleting this user profile and making a new one seeing that i have moved my data off it...would this be a wise move? 

This profile has been a  bit dodgy recently also, where it signed me into a temp profile and i could not get back into my original. I ended up taking it to a pc shop as i could not figure out how to get it back to normal myself. I don't want to be doing that again. Any help would be much appreciated Thanks

Hi,

Was it local user profile or roaming profile?

Try this:

Select the disk(which is user profile on) you want to cleanup. Right click it and select Properties, on the General tab, Click Disk Cleanup button. Follow the wizard to finish the cleanup to check the result.

I regularly do disk clean up on that hard drive..i tried it nothing changed.

I managed to un-hide the files for my user profile and it shows in app data, a local, local low and roaming section. The majority of data (85 gig) is in the roaming section. 

What's the difference in roaming and local?? Is this normal for a profile, to store that much gig? I haven't properly looked through where the data is exactly stored, but it looks like they are my programs etc...Is there some way i could have been installing my programs to my profile?

Many thanks

Hi,

Roaming. This folder (%appdata%) contains data that can move with your user profile from PC to PClike when youre on a domainbecause this data has the ability to sync with a server. For example, if you sign in to a different PC on a domain, your web browser favorites or bookmarks will be available.

Local. This folder (%localappdata%) contains data that can't move with your user profile. This data is typically specific to a PC or too large to sync with a server. For example, web browsers usually store their temporary files here.

The apps themselves choose whether to save to the Local, LocalLow, or Roaming folders. Most desktop apps use the Roaming folder by default, while most Windows Store apps use the Local folder by default.

Note: We don't recommend moving, deleting, or making any changes to files or folders in the AppData folder. Doing so could make your apps run poorly or stop working entirely.

However, you could delete some of them to free up space if you cannot sign it any more.

VE

There is a good free 3rd party app that will show you exactly what is using the space called Treesize from Jam software.  100 gigs is not even close to bring normal.  Mine a 4 gigs