We recently ran into an issue where the a system was running out of space on the system-drive. After initial investigation we’ve discovered that Direct Access Database Windows Internal Database was consuming a lot of drive-space on a system-drive. Below I will explain how to shrink Direct Access database In the output above we used RoboCopy to calculate the folder sizes, if you want to know more about that, read my previous blog post here: Faster Dir Size calculations in PowerShell!