System Volume Information folder is over 150GB

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John wilkes booty

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I have tried other solutions that seemed to work for people with the same problem but none have helped so far. I was able to see with TreeSize that my C drive, which has randomly been filling up over the past few months even though I have downloaded nothing, has 150GB of space taken up by the System Volume Information folder. When I open this the files taking up the space are not under a specific category. I have tried to remove these files because everyone has told me they are old restore points but when I go through this process nothing is deleted. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance
 
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The problem is System Restore is already disabled. It specifically says when I open it that no restore points have been created on my computer's system drive. When i open system protection, it says that the C drive has protection on, but when I go to configure this it says there are 0 bytes being used.
 
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I discovered that I was rapidly losing free space on my C Drive. I got a free copy of Folder Size. It shows the size of every folder, which Windows Explorer doesn't. The main thing I learned was that a folder called System Volume Information was 390 GB. Searching the Internet told me that this folder stored backup information. After several false starts tonight I found that if I go to search in Control Panel for "create restore" I'll get to the window for creating a restore point “System Properties" Click on the System Protection Tab, select the C drive, and select the Configure button I can adjust the size of the storage folder, which I did from 390 GB to 160GB.
Success!

I have my reasons for why the overload happened on my computer and they are very specific. I was creating a lot of restore points automatically as part of a piece of software filling up my disk's empty space.

 
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