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Game isnt installing but its using disk space | Itch.io app

A topic by loquero created Mar 13, 2024 Views: 232 Replies: 3
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Hi! i was downloading a game from the app, and when it was almost done the download dissapeared but the space was being used, the game isnt in any file, i've searched through the roaming and nothing, i was wondering if anyone could know why is it using space when it isnt installed,

using space ... where? How do you know that? Is the app telling you this, or your operating system? Could you resume the download?

well in the explorer, i always check my disk when i'm downloading it and i had 20gb and then 15gb

That is not a reliable metric. There is any number of reasons why your disk could have been cluttered at roughly the same time. And a download is usually written on disk as a temporary file. That the space is used up, even if the download fails, especially if the download fails, is the expected outcome.

We do not know what happened, but it seems something went wrong and installation was aborted. Aborted in a way that the temp files did not get cleaned up yet. That is also why I asked if you could resume the download. Because of said temp file already being on your disk, this might be possible in some cases.

Worst case (apart from the failing installation/download) for your disk usage situation, the temp file was left in a state where it will not get cleaned up.

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