It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Unambiguous-Doughnut on 2024-08-01 19:54:40.

I have been ripping my blu-ray collection recently, in the collection i had The Walking Dead and Supernatural, I ripped the entire series of both and the file size was at the time 2tb ish for both, Now I checked again today and the file size appears to be 1.80tb and 1.83tb for BOTH the entirity of the shows.

Now i have heard of Drives rapidly growing in size for no reason but i have never heard of files suddenly giving you space back, I have done nothing with the files other than when i Initially renamed them and checking the folders and how many individual files it still has every single episode so what gives?