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Did not recover disk space after migrating documents to a different volume

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Updated January 17, 2018

asked on April 19, 2017

Our primary volume is filling up the physical disk so we've migrated some of the documents to alternate volumes. However, after doing so we did not see the volumes folder size decrease very much. Only about 5%. E.g. - the new volume great to ~400GB but the primary volume only shrunk by about ~20GB. I would've expected that when you migrate 400GB worth of files to a different volume you would the experience 400GB of space freed up on the original source location. Does anyone have insight as to what may be going on?

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replied on April 19, 2017

Hi Brock. Did you check right after performing the migration? File deletion is handled through helper functions that clear them up in the background over time. Especially for that large a change, check back in a bit and see if there's more space now free.

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replied on April 20, 2017

Thanks for the reply. That makes sense.

Any idea how long it takes clear the files? I checked again this morning and still haven't very recovered much of the space. It's been a couple days now and I've only noticed a small amount of space recovered. Do you think it could take days/weeks before I'll see the all of the clean up completed? Is there any way to expedite the process?

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replied on January 17, 2018

Brock did you ever find a way to expedite this?

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replied on April 21, 2017

I checked again this morning. It looks like the volume folder is going down in size slowly. At a rate of about 1.7 GB/hr. I'll keep an eye on it over the next couple weeks and see if it eventually fully cleans up as expected.

Does anyone know of a way to expedite the process? If everything is migrated out and our recycle bin is empty, would it be safe to delete the files directly out of the windows folders? Do we need to keep the folder structure in tact?

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