Captain’s Blog, 180902.1 – Disappearing Space on Your SSD Drive, and Hidden Files

“…anything in C:\Windows\Temp should be counted in the 107 gigabytes above, right? Because it’s IN one of the folders that I queried, right?

Right??

No. Windows is lying to you. Unless you go to C:\Windows\Temp, double click on it and explicitly grant yourself permission to it then Windows will hide not only the contents of the folder but also the file count and size of the files therein.”