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Since installing the 1803 update, Windows File Explorer doesn't display the correct folder size if the folder is named 'Applications'.
There seems to be a bug that if the folder name is 6 characters or more and starts with 'Appli', the folder size shows significantly less than it actually is. For example if the folder is named 'Apps' or 'Appli', it will display the size correctly. If however it is named 'Applications' or 'Applix' or 'Appliy', then it won't display correctly.
The Feedback app doesn't work on my computer due to having telemetry settings set to 'Basic', therefore I am reporting the bug here instead.
OS Version:
Windows 10 Pro X64 (17134.1, 1803)
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Yes, I understand... this thread has been open for quite some time without any "fix" other than shortening the file names to under the 260 char limit. I hope they will do something as well to repair this.
The good news is that the files are not lost- and using a 3rd party directory program will show the actual folder sizes.
(Not an MS rep)
Dave
This is a HUGE issue - it constitutes a major failure in how an OS MUST act if it's reliable, usable even. Where is MS on this? I'm not going to shorten paths / rename, that would mean moving potentially thousands of files to locations they do not belong in. If you have one folder to move / rename in, fine, but I'm a working pro who deals with many systems every day where backups need to be made & file / folder sizes need to be 100% accurate no matter where in the hierarchy properties are brought up. MS have been chipping away at the heart of what makes an OS an OS for several years now - this is totally unacceptable.
Use https://sourceforge.net/projects/tlpd/files/v4.6/ to determine long file names in this directory. 260 chars is the official limit- but when I run this I run it for 240.
The out put is a file list of long names-- try moving these out of this directory temporarily, or just shorten them- and that fixes the "size" problems.
I have 8.75 TB of files in a directory that has shown only a fraction of the file size in Explorer-- until I did this, now it shows correctly.
Have the same Problem Win10 Folder Properties reports incorrect file sises and numbers See Image;. 