Consequences of deleting my “C:\Users\l* ” folder contents


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After a warning from Windows 11 that my HDD is getting dangerously low I checked contents. I find that about half (one TB) is occupied by my “Users” subfolder. See the image below (personal info redacted). Is it okay to delete the contents (or most of) of this folder? Presumably most of the contents of this folder is redundant and resident elsewhere on one of my local drives. I’ll save the really important stuff locally.redacted.webp
 
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It looks like you are using WinDirStat to examine the file sizes stored on your HDD. Before deleting things, you could expand on the II-**** user account directory, by clicking on the "+" symbol next to the folder name. That will tell you which subfolder, and ultimately, which file(s) are using most of that 1TB space.
 

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