Sounds perplexing to me too. But of course I have no idea what type of
'mirroring tool' you're using, or how it handles duplicate, private,
or open files. And you should still have explorer set to hide system
files, so maybe that accounts for the 'ghosts'.
Even more perplexing to me is why you
I said I wasn't using any tool. These files were moved by hand.
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
Hidden files may be shown, but system files shouldn't be. IMHO,
anyway. You can enable showing them, but it's probably not a good idea
for most people. ANyway, if they were hidden they shouldn't be counted
anyway.?
You sure can't use windows explorer or perl scripts to do decent
comparisons; what
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com:
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
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
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 xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Are the hidden files some sort of deleted files in some sort of hidden
trash folder? But still being counted as existing because they are there
and are recognized by the OS?
Fred Holmes
At 02:40 AM 11/26/2009, mike wrote:
I've got two drives I should have been using a mirroring tool
.onetoc2 sounds like an indexing file.
Fred Holmes
At 02:29 PM 11/26/2009, mike 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.
IIRC, desktop.ini exists only if certain features of the OS have been enabled
(which features have their options recorded in desktop.ini). The drive isn't
full of empty desktop.ini files. One of the features that uses desktop.ini is
specialty icons for explicit folders.
Fred Holmes
At 02:55
I've got two drives I should have been using a mirroring tool to...mirror.
But due to laziness and thinking it would be easy to not, I had not. So now
I am checking for missing files between the two.
Drive 1 has folder A with 13 files in the folder. If I get properties on
this folder, it says
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