Jitendar Canth(Reviewer) posted this on Saturday, 22nd December 2018, 20:23
For the last two versions apparently, Windows 10 has had a bug where it can’t read file sizes and directory sizes correctly. I noticed it recently when I was reorganising my speccy games folder. Win 10 listed the directory size as 30 MB, but when I backed it up to my Vista laptop, the size was actually 179MB.
Reading around it seems a bug in Windows means it doesn’t read the attributes of files where the path length and file name length is above a certain size something like 250 characters or so. So directory size and file numbers are incorrect. Worst case scenario is that the user sees what look like an empty directory and deletes it, when it actually has some data inside.
A workaround is installing Treesize until MS fix it, but they haven’t since the April update, so I’m not holding my breath.
=========================== Jitendar Canth
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