# hard drive space disappering
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hard-drive-space-disappering/944
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 30, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hard-drive-space-disappering/944 "2004-03-30T14:14:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@detchibe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/detchibe)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hard-drive-space-disappering/944/1 "2004-03-30T14:14:15Z")
every time i change a tag a few MB of space on my hard drive are taken up. the mp3 files that i'm changing the tags of are not increasing in size and i can't figure out where this space is going.
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### Author:  [@detchibe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/detchibe)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hard-drive-space-disappering/944/2 "2004-03-30T14:22:50Z")
well, i just figured out that it was because of a previous installation of Norton System Works that was duplicating (i assume) the files for the Norton Protected Files. i just purged them and the space reappeared.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hard-drive-space-disappering/944/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:12Z")