Windows 10: Folder Size

Hi Group, I have an internal hard drive, 1 TB, just for data. If I add up the sizes of all the folders, it is about 75 GB. But properties for the drive show it has 455 GB of data. I know it has nowhere near that. The red line appears showing it close to full. What is happening here? Any ideas will be appreciated.

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How to automatically see the size of folders in the Windows 10 file explorer

Nyima Yonten you are not understanding the issue

in windows explorer, the size of "Files" is displayed in the column "size" however the size of "folders" is not displayed, this is not a glitch, this is just the way windows has always worked. the op is asking is there a way to force windows to display the
size of "folders"

to my knowledge the only way to do this is with a third party software called "folder size" which adds a column titled "folder size" which displays the size of all files AND folders

 

folder size

how do I stop folder from gong back to details every time I have in large size it reverts back each time to details size

 

Do you have your hidden files displayed?

When is the last time you reviewed contents of recycle bin?

When this the last time you ran disk clean up on C:?

You should also enter disk management and see how that drive is partitioned. You could even post screen shot although make sure any personal information is blanked out.

 

This is a D: drive, just for storage. I have hidden files and folders set to show. The recycle bin on that drive is empty. Thanks.

 

Also, the drive is not partitioned.

 

The sizes of files can give a misleading of the total, sometimes the amount of storage taken up will be greater. An example would be a single file of 1KB taking up 4KB/4096B of disk space. The default formatting of a drive or partition for NTFS is 4096KB per cluster and can't have two files in that same space without having corruption, what is not used in that cluster is called slack or waste.

 

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