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Windows 11 not notifying me of drive becoming full.
I have windows 11 and I save large files in iterations rapidly to my D drive.
Windows 11 does not notify me of the drive becoming full.
How can I get Windows 11, either natively or through an app, hit me with a warning that is unmistakable and urgent when any of my drives get below a threshold, for instance 20gb.
Thanks
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If you want a more urgent and unmistakable alert, you can set up a script that checks your drive space regularly and triggers a loud alert when it drops below your threshold.
Press Win + I to go to System > Storage > Storage Awareness to turn on Auto Free Space and set a reminder threshold, or you can press Win + R and type cleanmgr to select Drive Scan to manually check disk space.
Is there a way to get that without windows deleting files. Storage Sense "cleans up enough space to help your system run its best."
I suppose I could do that but I'm not sure I want that. I want a warning and then I can go delete a bunch of (iterative) files myself.
The "Clean up" is very general sounding.
