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System Restore was the culprit
Before I begin with the issue, please do not attempt this if you are not really advanced and know your stuff as I do not want to be responsible for borking your computer....
I was reading on another forum about a user having Macrium backups running on a schedule. He posted a picture of his System Volume Information folder showing there was multiple older VSS Shadow copies still lurking around.
I decided to take a look at mine since I use Macrium. I had to take ownership of the SVI folder to look in there of course. After I gained access and looked, there were quite a few VSS "snapshots" totalling over 11GB to my shock. I did a bit of digging on this and ran this command:
This reduced the size to just under 2GB. I have since rebooted and see no issues at all. This is not a request for help, but rather to see if anyone else using Macrium can confirm the same. Like I said please do not run any commands or do anything WITHOUT FIRST HAVING A BACKUP and knowing what you are doing.Code:vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=2GB
My main drive is over 9GB lighter now.
EDIT: I was able to tie together the exact date and time of the files in the System Volume Information folder to my logs in Macrium. Exact dates and times. Also upon reboot Windows took permission back of the SVI.
Any ideas, comments?
Last edited by Access Denied; 10 Apr 2018 at 16:18. Reason: fixing title because Macrium was not the issue