Huge snapshot after Skype

[carfal]

athanasian_creed, I have to admit that to have a 94 GB snapshot would make me fall off my chair as well.

Something is definitely happening on your system that is causing massive changes hence massive snapshots.

You've assured me that you've checked the list i suggested so the only thing i can think of is to do a compare between the large snapshot and the one before it.

There are many programs that can do this.

First i would try one of the following programs that show large files

Free Windows 7 Disk Analyzer | Windows 7 Themes

Instead of rolling back to the large snaphsot to use the above utility i would simply mount it using the following method



When you click "Next" you'll see your snapshot history. Select the large snaphshot and it will mount as a VDrive. Be patient, it takes a while. Once mounted you can acces it using Windows Explorer and i believe the above utility will also now be able to analyze it. Hopefully something obvious will stick out as the cause of your space usage.

If this fails to yield results then you may want to try to compare snapshots. To do this you'll need to download a program called Beyond Compare located HERE.

I swear by it but it's not free. You'll get 30days free trial so it will be enough for your purposes.

Here is what i would do

1. Rollback to the SnapShot (SS) just before the 94Gb SS
2. Now install Beyond Compare
3. Mount the 94Gb SS using the method i've already outlined above
4. Load Beyond Compare and select "Folder Compare"
5. Select your actual Drive C on the left and select your mounted VDrive (which is the 94Gb SS) on the right.

It will take a while to update. When finished you'll see things that are listed in red or blue. If you also see black make sure your Icons are seleted like this



Anything in blue is an orphan file - it only exists on the side its shown on

Anything in red is a newer file - the side the red file is on is the newer file

So looking at the side that has the 94GB SS, anything in blue is something that will add to the snapshot size.
Anything in red is a newer file, therefore a change in data, therefore will also add to the snapshot size.
SIDE NOTE: alot of the red files you'll notice may only have a date/time change. Even though Beyond Compare lists these files as newer i cant say for certain that Rollback will or will not consider these files as data changed.


Beyond Compare is quite detailed and should give you a good insight into what is going on.

Let there be light....

PS if you have more than 1 Drive/partition protected then do the same for all protected drives as the issue may not even be on drive C.