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On a Windows Server 2019 Enterprise, we have a disk with just one directory.

When we check the properties of the directory, the summary of file sizes is more than twice the amount of diskspace used (see picture) When we do a "dir /s" on this directory, the numbers are about the same.

What's wrong with the directory properties dialog? No symbolic links or directory shortcuts...

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  • Probably related to the massive number of file and folders? You have hundreds of thousands of files and folders in there. Why the size used on disk is smaller than the actual folders though, I have no idea. I thought this would be the other way around?
    – user440147
    Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 10:51
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    Possible duplicate of Why is the folder size (in properties) different from the total file/folder sizes in the folder?
    – Moab
    Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 12:26
  • I feel this is not a duplicate, as what is happening here is the other way around compared to the linked question. The individual folders are showing up as consuming far more space than the disk itself shows, not less. I think a symbolic link to another volume may have found its way into the folder somewhere.
    – user440147
    Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 14:27

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No symbolic links

Are you sure about that? With this many files and folders buried, you might very well have a symbolic link somewhere.

You can run this command in a command prompt to find out:

dir /AL /S C:\

I cannot see any other reason for the contents of a folder to be bigger than the drive space itself. Normally it would be the other way around with this many files.

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