Windows 10: cannot attach file 0 bytes

i cannot attached files in my easy mail account, they say 0 bytes & cannot download, but when using my gmail it works ok, im using windows 10

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Small files have a disk space of 0 bytes

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CAUTION: Please to not ask/suggest "file repair" stuff as in the original question since it will lead to no output/solution/answer!

The files are valid/okay. In my point of view there are two possibilities:

• Simply a "display" bug in Windows File Explorer for files <1K
  
• Some specialty of the NTFS I do not know (see also for "file system tunneling - possible that files are changed, before they are created")
  

e.g. A text file which is 72 byte:





But "Size on disk" claiming 0 bytes...

When I add (enough) text to the (text) file it changes from "0 bytes" to 4K:





When I remove the added text, "4,00 KB (4 096 bytes) will remain...

When I create then a copy of that file, the new file has again "0 bytes" on disk (don't forget, the file has 72 bytes)...

Info: Disk sector - Wikipedia

(so, the sector size on my HDD is 4 KB.... or KiB but each "IT human" knows about the 1024 factor so it is clear what KB means... - an it seems that Microsoft shares my opinion since the avoid the kibibyte nonsense ;-))

Would be nice to know the background if it. Many thanks to everybody, doing clarification on that, in advance!

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Bad Image Errors - dll files changing to 0 bytes

Hi
Have an unusual problem (to me anyway)

Last week I got "Bad Image" errors with Adobe Lightroom (the program had worked OK previously). Two .dll files were listed as corrupt and in Explorer both were shown has having 0 bytes size. Re-installation resolved the problem.
Today I have had the same "bad image" error with another program. Techsmith SnagIt. Once again it was .dll files and they show in explorer as 0 bytes. The timestamp on the 0 byte dlls is the time of the error i.e. today (not when the files were installed).

What I've done so far :
Ran McAfee viruscan across all disks - no problems reported.
Ran Malwarebytes - no problems reported

Went to the properties for the disk drive and under "Tools" ran error check - nothing found
The disk is an SSD so I went to Samsung Magician which shows drive condition as good and S.M.A.R.T. shows wear levelling count at Current Value 99. I do not use Rapid Mode.

The problems are happening on a Samsung 850 Evo 500GB

Any suggestions welcome

Dave

 

NTFS problem: 0 byte file but "Size On Disk: 3.98 GB"

By using a Python script, I managed to mistakenly create a 4GB file on an NTFS USB drive with a colon in the filename. The resulting file name was all of the text up until the colon, but the file is listed as being 0 bytes. BUT when I check the file properties
it says "Size On Disk: 3.98 GB (4,282,056,704 bytes)". When I used a file recovery program such as Recuva and MiniTool Power Data Recovery, all 4GB seem to copy to another drive, but it still shows that it's 0 bytes (Size On Disk 3.98 GB).

Any advice as to what I could try next to fix this issue?

The file cannot be replaced easily so I'd like to get it back.

I'm not averse to low level disk editing if it comes to that.

Thanks in advance!