I had noticed a lack of space on my C drive, more so recently. I checked the storage and seen that Forza 7 was installed o there. I don’t remember doing this as all my game installs go onto one of my other drives. I tried to move the install to my E drive but when i clicked to move it, it said that it was also installed on my E drive. Looked up some advice but didn’t get much so I thought I might as well delete it. However after I had uninstalled the game from the C drive it also uninstalled from the E drive. The problem is that it is still taking up 100GB of storage on the C drive and there is no indication of the game being installed there.
In short Forza 7 copied itself onto my C drive, got deleted and is still taking up 100G somehow.
Yep have seen this and I believe it may be caused buy your Game being on One Hard Drive and Some or all of your Add on content being on C drive for this problem to happen.
To check this go to Apps and go to advanced and look to see what drives the Add on content is on. And if on C move it to the same location as the game.
Ah OK should have said to use the App manager to move them to the other drive not copy and paste And yep it is a right royal pane the way Windows goes about installing apps on your Computer only to tell you you have no right to try and open or move the folder with out doing all the pernmissions transfrers. And even then ther is still stufe you just can not touch.
Had this as well. The only fix is a complete uninstall. Check both drives to make sure they aren’t there. I had to still manually delete it from my C: drive after it uninstalled from my Game Drive. Reboot. Then download/reinstall. But make sure at MS Store you select the drive letter don’t let it select on for you.
So I’ve uninstalled it, but the system won’t allow me to delete the OpusPG folder, which is the last Forza folder on any drive. Even after I’ve given myself full control of the file
Note:
If you do find Forza 7 on C drive and you know it’s on another drive check the folder icon to see if has a arrow in the lower left corner. If it does it should mean that it’s a symbolic link or some other kind of link but it’s only an image more or less and not a duplicate copy. So keep that in mind when you reinstall. It may still show up on C drive even though it’s installed on another drive. As to the name of the folder it should read something like:
Microsoft.ApolloBaseGame
I know this is old but if that C: folder does have the arrow in the bottom left hand corner indicating that it is an image does that mean that FH3 is properly installed on my secondary E: drive and not the C: drive? Thing is when I click properties on the C: “image” it still is 55GB.
Right, rebooted the PC, gone to check storage first and there’s still 100 GB being used up by an imaginary Forza install on my C Drive. Reinstalling the game to E drive now but it still takes up space on both drives
All I can tell you is to look up the error you get when you try to delete it. See if that google search will tell you how to fix it.
I would delete that duplicate file 1st before I reinstall it again on the other hard drive.
So that Opus file belonged to Horizon 3. Got confused by the Forzax64.exe. So now there’s actually no files related to Forza 7 on any of my drives yet there’s still 100 GB missing on my system drive. No idea what to even try next.
Hmm there is an app called SpaceSniffer that allows you to “visually” see the content of your HD. Problem is this is for advance users who understand the folder structure of windows such as temp directory. Directory where restore points are held, etc. You have to know this. But it can identify a 100GB block you just have to research the name of directory to see what it pertains to.
However…
I’ve seen large restore points that take up a lot of space. Have you tried typing:
-Create A Restore Point in the search box
-Click on Configuration for C drive
-See the Current Usage
To see if it matches the missing hard drive space?