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Can anyone experience difference in file and folder size on a large mixed folder?
- Sure, you're welcome, let me know if anything new happens 🙂
I reviewed your screenshots but I'm afraid they are a bit unclear. I couldn't be sure whether they are from the same folder or not, and also you took screenshot of folder sizes when you were copying/moving files, that can change folder sizes in real time..
They were all from single folder and it was when my OS drive was full. It was a folder with so much work files and as I have already moved them to my data drives, the problem seems to be resolved. That means when I am checking the moved folder everything ( Means right clicking on the new folder and clicking properties and selecting all files inside and clicking properties show same size and number of files/folders ) So it may be a temperrory fetching problem related to system resources available at that time. ( Slowness or something. ) But I have seen the same problem lot of times where a bulk folder is copied. At that point of time it makes problem because we have to understand the required space to move to a new folder. That is why I pointed out the problem and I now understand it may be a slowness or resources available problem by which it sometimes show an incomplete result when checking a bulky folder's properties. Thanks for the answer and that is why I checked the new folder again. BUT WHAT I POINTED IS A FACT AT SOME POINTS ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE BARE LARGE FILES AND THE SYSTEM IS A BIT SLOW.HotCakeX
- Does that folder contain mostly small files or large files? and what is its Allocation Unit Size set to?
Mixed is the answer for the file size of files and that issue I posted may be due to some slowness causing " Pausing Calculation " as I told. If I see the same issue later I will surely post an update. Meanwhile Allocation Unit Size isn't set or changed to a custom value as I am unaware so much about that settings. HotCakeX
