I tried to unarchive a 40 gig zip archive in my d drive which at the time had 120 gigs free but i was greated by a message that i don't have enough disk space i was really confused and i decided to check out how much space i had and what i saw was that i had 0 gb of free space in my c drive and 120 in my d drive i used to have 20 gigs i pressed the cancel button that was in the error message and then i quickly got my 20 gigs back so i decided to free up some files and i had 45 gigs of free storage in my c drive and then i tried to unarchive it again and then i missclicked cancel instead of pause and now it didn't free up the space that it held i have 7 gigs free can anyone help me? maybe it created a secret folder?
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3You've typed 160 words without any punctuation. If you want someone to help you, at least try to make it easy for them to read your question.– gronostajCommented Dec 21, 2020 at 8:30
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Check where WinRar keeps the temporary files it uses when compressing and decompressing. Usually it is C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\Temp. You can see or change its location in WinRar Options, Settings, Paths. First go to that folder and delete all the files you don't need. Then change it to a folder on a drive with plenty of space, and click OK. May need to reboot.
I did this when my SSD got nearly full.
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thank you so much for the help that you gave me Commented Dec 21, 2020 at 8:39
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Sorry, it's Options, then Settings. Start WinRar using Windows Type Here To Search (next to start button), type WinRar. See image added above. Commented Dec 21, 2020 at 8:52