Windows 10 Folder in WindowsApps is taking up all my space and I can't delete it.

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So before any one says anything, no I cannot change the security or the owner. Every option to change security is greyed out. I have tried using the CMD, even as administrator. I have tried updating, restarting, using every known command to delete this file but all I ever get is an Access Denied error. I have a whole other thread about this issue, and it's yet to be solved.


It's a copy of Halo MCC from the Microsoft store, which is about 120GB. Yet when I go onto the microsoft store it says I don't have that game installed. I try to start it but it says I do not have the appropriate permissions to run it, and when I try to start it using Search it says the executable doesn't exist (even though it does.)


It's even weirder because Windows, on it's own, decided to put it there. I had the game installed in a completely different location, but it decided to put the entire game into a folder I cannot access at some random point within the last week. I've gone to the file I installed it to and the last time I messed with it was over a week ago -- Windows moved this on its own without so much as a single notification or warning.


At this point I'm well over convinced the only way to delete it is by formatting the entire drive. I don't have the storage to back up everything on it I want to save.

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