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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...

Size comparison

Dave M
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AlexK
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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.