And this still doesn't answer the question why your properties is counting these hidden system files. Mine certainly isn't. I mean, assuming I have an extra desktop.ini in virtually every folder, it's not showing up in my file counts.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:29 PM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > That's why I emailed the list...to remind me of any brain farts I may have > had. I hadn't checked to show hidden system files. Thar she blows. I have > a file .onetoc2 all over the place on this drive. Apparently this belongs > to an office app. Why would this be a hidden SYSTEM file let alone a hidden > file I have no idea. Doing a search now I find a ton of these files on the > drive, a quick google search and I can't find out why. Thanks Reid for the > help. > > > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Reid Katan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Quoting mike <[email protected]>: >> >> I wrongly muddied the issue by bringing up the two drives, this is the >>> context in which I found the problem. So I'll restart to be clear. >>> >>> I have a drive in which when I manually open folder XYZ it shows me 13 >>> files. When I get properties on the folder it says there are 18 files >>> inside the folder. HIdden files are shown, that I am sure. >>> >> >> There is also an option to show *system* files that is different from the >> "Show Hidden Files". Are you sure you've got that one unchecked? You can >> tell by looking at your desktop. There will be two system files that show >> there if you unhide system files. One will be desktop.ini. I don't remember >> what the other one is. >> >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
