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More info?)
It will only waste 2 secs at a time calculating. Reshow the tip to get another 2 secs.
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"Friendly" <derekthestud@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ODSeCrkhFHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I've had this [similar] happen to my mp3 folder several times which is in
> excess of 30gb when i select the folder i can hear the computer calculating
> the disk space but instead of an accurate number it seems to just "give up"
> and display Greater Than; "xGB" I didn't lose any sleep over it, there are a
> couple of other ways to view the size of a folder that are faster than
> windows explorer. The cmd interface was mentioned i noticed. You can right
> click the folder/properties and wait for it to count up the files.
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> "Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
> news:i754d1hcn06qgc4v4hlvnq3851un3vi7mn@4ax.com...
>> "Paul" <wf1000xg@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> >No this is not a known bug...
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>> >I've got 2.3 gig in one folder and the status bar display the correct
>> >size.....
>> >
>> >You must have somethig strange going on in your machine......
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>> Thanks, looks like it then, if no one else can reproduce the
>> behaviour. FWIW, this was a DVD drive folder I was exploring. Just
>> been trying to find an individual folder on my *HD* that contains over
>> 1 GB, to se if same fault present, but so far haven't done so. Of
>> course, My Computer reports size of root files, excluding subfolders.
>>
>> I'll reboot (rare occurrence here) and try again.
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>> Terry, West Sussex, UK
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