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Jeff D.'s avatar
Jeff D.
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Total folder count, file count and file size are WAY off!

I have 3 computers that all fully sync and are all in front of me. All three are current on updates and have plenty of resources (HD space, RAM, etc.) Their Windows indexing is unchanged and all comp...
  • Ross_S's avatar
    Ross_S
    7 years ago

    Issue with long filepaths or counting the contents of a container file maybe?

    Doesn't sound like it's being caused by a reparse point, I don't think.

     

    Are there any filenames over 260 char?

    something like: 

    dir /s /b | sort /r /+261 > out.txt

     would probably check for that. There may be better command lines available to check that.

     

    For a container file....

    Windows 8 would have to read them differently than 10, which seems unlikley.

    Is there any patern to the omited files, on the machine that recognises then? (same file type, all in the same folder etc)

     

    This should recursivley list all contents of that directory and you can compair what's missing (inc hidden files and systems attributes):

    dir /s /a:sh

     

    Just run them on the required directory, where you can see all the extra files via properties

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