C-drive filling up with unwanted bytes

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    photo.marijke

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    I have an Acer Aspire 4937 G that I use for my photos.
    I installed Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.1 and Elements 7.0 as well as Microsoft office 2003 and Nero 9.
    When I upload the images from my camera I sort them, edit them and then move them to a portable HDD. After I have finished there are no more photos on my C-drive and just a few on the D-drive. However, my C-drive seems to be filling up with bytes that I cannot retrieve.
    I empty the recycle bin, delete folders on Lightroom and images on PSE, but I cannot stop this process. I defragment the C-drive and do a disc clean-up, but that doesn’t help. I never go online with this computer, so the things that fill up my HDD must come from my photos. What can I do about it?
     
    photo.marijke, Mar 18, 2011
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    KiNG

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    I have seen this happening before myself, was with photoshop. I would reinstalled lightroom/elements. Also try running the exe as adminstrator.
     
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    i think you have got some virus like Trojan in your hard-disk in you Pc all you need to install some nice antivirus sowftware or if still it doesnt work than you need to format the hard-disk than before opening your any drives first install antivirus in your computer try this out .
     
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    hispoiema

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    This happened to me once. It was when I updated Google Earth. There was a bug in it, I ended up reinstalling my os.
     
    hispoiema, Mar 12, 2014
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    Just make sure that you regularly clean your temp folder. Sometimes it is the one growing without your knowledge. I normally clean mine every week to remove all those unwanted folders and files.
     
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    That is a good recommendation. When I got my first computer, I used to defrag and use Disk Cleanup once a week. I don't think it needed it that often but it made me feel like I knew what I was doing and kept me "in touch" with my machine.
    I recently stuck the defrag shortcut on my desktop so I will remember to do so from time to time.
     
    hispoiema, Mar 13, 2014
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