Hi all
Using TC 9.22a. When I press spacebar on a folder, TC shows the folder size. However, I found that if a folder contains a symbolic link, the count is wrong. For example, in my user profile, I created a symbolic link for the Downloads folder which points to a Downloads folder on my second hard disk. This helps not to increase the size of my Windows disk as I download stuff. When I press spacebar on my user profile folder, the size calculated by TC includes the size of the folder on the other disk. Pressing Alt-Enter on my profile folder shows the correct size without sizing what is on the other disk. In this way I feel Windows reports the correct size whereas TC does not.
Let me know your comments please.
Thanks
Alexis
Incorrect Folder Size
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Re: Incorrect Folder Size
TC does calculate total size with its own rules, which haven't changed since times when no links existed, and it includes size of folder links. It shows size that a copy of the folder will take.
There is a wincmd.ini option that allows to alter this behaviour, but it ignores folder links for copy/move/calc size at once:
There is a wincmd.ini option that allows to alter this behaviour, but it ignores folder links for copy/move/calc size at once:
TOTALCMD.chm wrote:IgnoreLinks=0 Allows to ignore hard links (junctions, reparse points) to directories in various functions. Note: The function "Synchronize dirs" uses a separate option "SyncIgnoreJunctions".
Sum of:
1: copy/move/calculate occupied space
2: internal packers (zip, tar)
4: branch view
8: find files (except when using Everything), re-scan tree
16: ignore links even when they are selected in the current directory. Otherwise only links in selected subdirectories are ignored.