OpenEuphoria

1. RE: [WIN] drive space used != total file space used; whynot?

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at localnet.com> Feb 09, 2002
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Dan Moyer wrote:
> On Win98 2nd ed, if I right-click on all top-level directories/folders 
> on a
> drive, select "properties", and record the number of bytes USED for each
> directory(not just the sum of the size of the files in them), and then 
> sum
> all directories, and then do the same "properties" query for the DRIVE
> itself, the sums for all directories does NOT equal the "used space" in
> bytes for the drive.  Can anyone tell me why?
> 
> I was making a utility to show all directories in descending order of 
> space
> used on the drive for each, and it finally works, except the sum of the
> (correctly reported) sizes of all the directories doesn't equal the
> "properties" reported size of the drive itself.
> 

Dan:
   Maybe you forgot about the windows SWAP file which
   probably is not counted in your directory byte count
   but shows up as harddrive bytes used.
Bernie