'Size on disk' and Free Space

[Oreo]

This is driving me crazy. The other day I deleted a load of stuff on my 60Gb SSD, free up about 10Gb of space. Then that day I had to reboot my PC, some time after doing that I noticed my SSD said "1.3Gb free of 55.8Gb"

So I go into the drive, enable hidden folders and files, highlight everything and right click > properties, and this is what I see:

It makes no sense to me. 44Gb of the disc is used, there is 56Gb of capacity, yet only 1.3Gb free ?

 

[MindoverMaster]

Try running CCleaner.

 

[Oreo]

Turns out it was the paging file. I disabled that and now i'm all good.

 

[MindoverMaster]

You should check out Slaymate's SSD guide. To free up space.

 

[Fat.Clown]

you can also use spacesniffer to see what else is hiding on your SSD.