Tech Support Question - Vista

[Kevy Baby]

There are a lot of people much smarter than I that may have an explanation for this oddity.

We are a small office (6 people). In lieu of a dedicated server, we use the Shared Documents folder on my computer as the server (it is a new Dual Core HP running Vista). The people who set this computer up for us set things up so that when I look at "My Computer", the Shared Documentsfolder shows up as a drive. Specifically, it is called the "S" drive (S = Shared). However, this is a mirror of what is in the Shared Documents folder ( a detail I confirmed a few minutes ago).

Here is the dilemma: when I get the properties of the "S" drive, it shows that there is 95.4 GB being used out of the 135 GB available. However, if I go to the C drive and get properties on the Shared Documents folder, it says that the folder is 38.4 GB.

When I look at the individual folders located in Shared Documents and secure their sizes, they definitely coincide with the 38.4 GB total.

Any idea why this discrepancy?

ETA: in case it makes a difference, the drive uses NTFS file system.

[Ghoulish Delight]

What's the capacity/useage info of your C: drive?

[Kevy Baby]

What's the capacity/useage info of your C: drive?95.4 GB being used out of the 135 GB available - exactly the same as what shows for the S Drive.

[Ghoulish Delight]

So there's your answer. Quirk of Windows file system networking. If it's mapped as a drive letter, it looks at the drive info, rather than the directory info.

That's partly because the "remaining capacity" measure doesn't make much sense in a per-directory measurement. Notice that when you go straight to the directory it only gives you the size of the directory, not any sort of "remaining size" measure. So from the standpoint that the mapped drive is a drive, there's no other way to present it.

[Kevy Baby]

Makes sense GD (well, it makes Microsoft sense). Thanks for 'splainin.