I deleted a compressed file, now it just shows that it takes up space on my drive without actually taking up place

I tried to compress a 80 gb file, but it was stuck at 0 compressed for a while so i closed it. I then deleted the file. But now it shows that it takes up space on my drive, but when i actually check the total size of my drive by selecting all folders in the drive it does not add up. This means that the file is somehow still taking up space, at least according to the drive properties. Please help me fix this issue

Please someone help, i tried restarting, i dont know what to do

Run chkdsk /f on the drive.

it says it cannot run as the volume is in use. it is the onky drive i have

It should ask if you want to run it on reboot. Say yes, then reboot.

It should ask if you want to run it on reboot. Say yes, then reboot.

i did but it didnt work, i restarted but nothing happened

ok yeah it ran something but it still the same

When you selected all files on C: to check their properties did you have hidden and system files shown?

yes

also here, i had uninstalled all my games today morning and then i reinstalled them, but now with the exact same drive and same files, something went wrong, im not sure if its a problem with the compactor or what but i have no idea how to fix this

also this shows a different storage as well

are you done?

When you selected all files on C: to check their properties did you have hidden and system files shown?

i need help 😭

Download and run Space Sniffer. Make sure you run it as administrator.

i deleted a few files so it changed a bit, but space sniffer does find more hidden files but it is still not big enough to make sense of fthe 200 + gb difference

That's not it.

let me run it again

it is not there

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/run-chkdsk-now-cannot-find-log-files/915b4b7a-885d-4740-a104-4ba026405698

i used this but the logs are blank

I don't know what to tell you. Sounds like you have deeper problems unrelated to Freaky Compactor.

I USED WIZTREE AND FOUND A FOLDER THAT IS EXACTLY HOW MUCH SPACE IS TAKEN

but i am unable to delete it

YESS I DID IT

DO NOT just randomly delete folders you don't know the origin of, especially if they are marked Hidden and/or System.

$Extend is a system folder and is used by modern versions of NTFS for things like Reparse data and the USN Journal. In your case, it was likely $TxF which was taking up the space, which is a location used by the system for a feature called Transactional NTFS.

DO NOT just randomly delete folders you don't know the origin of, especially if they are marked Hidden and/or System.

$Extend is a system folder and is used by modern versions of NTFS for things like Reparse data and the USN Journal. In your case, it was likely $TxF which was taking up the space, which is a location used by the system for a feature called Transactional NTFS.

That was deprecated years ago, if Compactor is using it people are better off looking for alternatives.

DO NOT just randomly delete folders you don't know the origin of, especially if they are marked Hidden and/or System.

$Extend is a system folder and is used by modern versions of NTFS for things like Reparse data and the USN Journal. In your case, it was likely $TxF which was taking up the space, which is a location used by the system for a feature called Transactional NTFS.

That was deprecated years ago, if Compactor is using it people are better off looking for alternatives.

Compactor uses compact.exe, not sure where you got the idea it would be used by compactor.

DO NOT just randomly delete folders you don't know the origin of, especially if they are marked Hidden and/or System.
$Extend is a system folder and is used by modern versions of NTFS for things like Reparse data and the USN Journal. In your case, it was likely $TxF which was taking up the space, which is a location used by the system for a feature called Transactional NTFS.

That was deprecated years ago, if Compactor is using it people are better off looking for alternatives.

Compactor uses compact.exe, not sure where you got the idea it would be used by compactor.

Compator uses the API, not compact.exe

DO NOT just randomly delete folders you don't know the origin of, especially if they are marked Hidden and/or System.
$Extend is a system folder and is used by modern versions of NTFS for things like Reparse data and the USN Journal. In your case, it was likely $TxF which was taking up the space, which is a location used by the system for a feature called Transactional NTFS.

That was deprecated years ago, if Compactor is using it people are better off looking for alternatives.

Compactor uses compact.exe, not sure where you got the idea it would be used by compactor.

Compator uses the API, not compact.exe

I'm not sure about the specifics but I'll take your word for it, either way I doubt it touches too much past that as windows will typically handle that stuff itself once it's told what to compress.

My only issue with this software is "compresstimation" otherwise I prefer this gui over compactgui, even if the latter is more developed.

I'm not sure about the specifics but I'll take your word for it, either way I doubt it touches too much past that as windows will typically handle that stuff itself once it's told what to compress.

My only issue with this software is "compresstimation" otherwise I prefer this gui over compactgui, even if the latter is more developed.

I’ve reproduced the scenario with the Windows Compression API on Helldivers 2 and confirmed that it does not leave residual data in the NTFS $Extend folder.

However if any user is seeing this issue and has the problem, please do not delete or modify $Extend directly, doing so will break NTFS journaling and related tracking services.

To safely reclaim that space, simply truncate the USN change journal. Open an elevated PowerShell or CMD prompt and run:

fsutil usn deletejournal /d C:

Windows will automatically recreate the journal on demand when any service requires it.

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