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How does "user" folder on C drive work?
I have several drives in my computer. The main drive is a 1tb hp laptop drive, but i have a 500G drive, a 2TB drive, & a mostly empty 6TB drive.
This Frankenstein computer is a desktop my brother built after my laptop died. I intend on cloning the laptop drive to a new drive but haven't been able to yet (mostly cause I'm scared lol).
I have moved everything I know I safely can off of my C Drive to make space but it's still full.
I produce music so my C Drive has all of my music software on it but I have moved all of the old regular stuff, as well as all of my saved music files.
I know I had issues with FL in the past because it saves stuff in the user file on the windows C drive, as well as the onedrive file which is weird because ive never used onedrive. so if certain stuff moves it no longer works in FL studio, but with the C drive full I also cannot record.
Plus the C drive says "154MB free of 913GB" even though I just moved 8GBs of old stuff.
Not sure what I can do. I really only need a little bit of space until I can do the cloning process. Can I zip files?
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Absolutely! Zipping is a quick way to compress files and free up space. It’s great for archiving things you don’t need immediate access to. Just right-click the folder or files, choose "Send to" > "Compressed (zipped) folder."
Since you're producing music and recording, make sure you keep enough free space on C: for the system and your DAW (FL Studio) to operate smoothly. Windows and audio software need free space for temp files and cache.
