Having symbolic link in subfolder breaks dir size calcula...

[3ICE]

Hi,

This is the curent situation of my Java folder: I used a symbolic link to redirect old version of java to current version. To keep my apps from complaining that I uninstalled Java u15 in favor of u17:

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C:\Program Files\Java> mklink /D jdk1.7.0_15 jdk1.7.0_17
symbolic link created for jdk1.7.0_15 <<===>> jdk1.7.0_17

This looks good in Total Commander:
Image: http://static.3ice.hu/images/TotalCommander-bugreport1-symlink.png

But the Java directory size is then reported incorrectly (600MB):
Image: http://static.3ice.hu/images/TotalCommander-bugreport1-wrong_size.png

Actual size (300MB):
Image: http://static.3ice.hu/images/TotalCommander-bugreport1-actual_size.png

Please advise...

Thanks,
Daniel "3ICE" Berezvai

p.s.: Tried adding the _15 folder to tcignore.txt as a workaround, but it didn't work. Also, I'd rather not do that for all my symlinks.

[MVV]

TC calculates full size of folder with all its subfolders/links. It was made so because it shows the size that you'll reguire on target drive if you copy that folder to it.

[3ICE]

That is all well and good, but how can I fix it for the above/below scenario?
A symlink to a subfolder is only going to be a couple bytes of overhead if I copy the parent folder to a different target drive. With or without the symlink.

[MVV]

Currently you can't disable calculation of link contents in TC, sorry. If you want TC to ignore jdk1.7.0_15 folder you can try to add it to ignore list.

[3ICE]

Tried adding the _15 folder to tcignore.txt as a workaround, but it didn't work. Also, I'd rather not do that for all my symlinks.

[MVV]

You're right, ignore list doesn't help here.

[Lefteous]

The content plugin DirSizeCalc features excluding all kind of links (using the included settings tool).

http://lefteous.totalcmd.net/tc/dirsizecalc_eng.htm