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I looked around and saw similar questions but different situations. I have folder on a server uploaded by a vendor with 224,199 files for a total size of: 280,447,323,973 bytes (I see this through FileZilla) which Google converts to 280.xx GB.

When I check the folder on my windows 7 NTFS hard drive the byte and files match but the total GB is different what I see in properties is: 261 GB

The files were transferring slowly over the weekend at my office the power had gone out so I was checking to see if all the files moved over and it appears it has, but the total size in GB doesn't match what I see in Google. I am converting from bytes to GB.

filezilla screenshot vs hard drive properties screenshot

Google:

google screenshot

Any ideas?

thanks in advance

SorryEh
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It depends on the size of sectors. Large sizes waste space on the disk because parts of each sector may be empty (but storage is faster). The size on disk is irrelevant, unless it were smaller than the actual file size, though even that is possible with disk compression.

If you have reason to question the validity of a file, download it and diff (or at least compare checksum) with a known good file.

DrMoishe Pippik
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