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#1 Sadeq

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Posted 12 May 2007 - 08:28 PM

To see this odd behavior, you should have enabled Explorer's status bar.

Go to a directory which has some FILES in it (it's important to have FILES; not merely DIRECTORIES). Press Ctrl+A, and note that the total size of the selected files is shown in the status bar.

Now press F5 or Ctrl+R to refresh.

Press Ctrl+A again, and wow! The size explorer shows in the status bar is almost doubled!

Any rational?!

#2 cluberti

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Posted 13 May 2007 - 12:12 AM

And this has been posted here before, and many times elsewhere on the 'net (even a post on a Microsoft blog). I believe it's a bug in explorer.exe on Vista, and we've not heard of any movement towards a fix for it as of yet. The file isn't growing or shrinking in size (I've seen this bug show negative file sizes too, very funny), thankfully, but explorer is displaying the size data incorrectly in the status bar.

Please search before posting a dupe of something that's been discussed here before and elsewhere many times. Thank you.