Re: PSA how to fix Windows explorer being blind to iPad sidecar .mov thumbnails

Maria Sophia wrote:
> Maria Sophia wrote:
>> I checked all the normal places to clean up disk space. Anything I deleted
>> kept the disk below limits for only a few minutes. Then the disk filled up
>> again. I looked in all the usual spaces for the usual culprits (which I cal
>> list separately in a followup article so others also know where to look).
> 
> While this PSA describes a Windows shadow-storage setting that can quietly 
> consume remaining disk space & how to correct it with a single command, 
> below is a list of the classic places to check for storage hogs (AFAIK).
> ... 
> In addition, I've written system-specific scripts, which check my own
> system (since I employ a highly-organized structure) for size hogs.

Ooops. My newsreader accidentally handed me the wrong post to respond to. 
That prior post was meant for this recent Windows-only PSA, not for here.

 Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
 Subject: PSA: Windows shadow storage can silently consume all free disk space
 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:24:31 -0600
 Message-ID: <[email protected]> 

Apologies for crossing up the two recent PSAs where one is about sidecar
files (nothing to do with Irfanview) & the other about Shadow Storage.