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Folder size bigger than its Disk Space

Hi,

I am facing an interesting issue wherein the size of a Drive is 300 GB. But the folder inside it which contains all data is showing a 405 GB. Not sure where the extra 100 GB has come from . I am finding this issue on a VM I had created and using . The Drive actually holds backup data which is being scheduled at the Application level. Do let me know how we can get this issue fixed. Tried Defragmentation and chkdsk option. But nothing turned out to fix.

Hi EKAMBARAM

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Where are you seeing that used disk space being reported, is that on the storage page in the Settings App?

If it is, that page is known to be very buggy and reports the incorrect space used.

Click the link below to download a small free utility called Treesize.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/treesize-free...

Important - to run TreeSize, you must right click its icon and choose Run as Administrator.

Please provide a screenshot of that drive in that TreeSize utility, so I can see your hard drive and work out where that space is being used and if there is an underlying problem.
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Hi,

I used to check from the Properties options while we right-click on the folder. And also i tried TreeSize which also reports the same.

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Hi EKAMBARAM

Can you please provide a screenshot of the Treesize window showing the problem
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Attached the image as shown above while check in Disk and Folder Properties.

Also attaching the TreeSize output. It all remains the same. The change in Folder size is because of the old SS for Folder properties. Anyways it is above 300 GB only.

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Hi EKAMBARAM

Sorry, I was offline, thank you for the screenshots.

What software are you using to create those backups, it seems the backups are archived (compressed) and Windows is somehow reading the full size of the folder, rather than the compressed size.

You indicate this is causing problems with a VM, how is that folder size causing problems for you?
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Hi,

We are using something called as Filemaker Tool on which we are building our application . And the tool also enables in scheduling the backups. Moreover the backups are not compressed and are placed as normal files only.

I did not tell it is a VM issue .. The tool is running in a VM. And by the way the disk size being 300 GB but the folder size inside it is showing 405 GB. Amazed to see how the space could get occupied more than a disk size..

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Hi EKAMBARAM

Seeing as you are building an application, then due to the scope of your question can you please post this question to our sister forum on Microsoft Q&A (The Developer Forum)

Over there you will have access to a host of developers and software engineers and will get a knowledgeable and quick answer to this question.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/products/
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