Windows 10: JPEG folders allocated 12GB, showing up as 10TB

I recently noticed two folders full of jpegs are now reporting 3.92GB and 7.7GB "size on disk", but approximately 5TB each "size", according to the folder properties in Explorer.

My hard disk is only 55GB large, so this is obviously wrong.

Each folder contains a few hundred jpegs which used to be ~8MB in size - each of them are now being reported as 8GB each. More importantly, I can't open any of these files in any picture viewers.

Here's the output of how Treesize views the reported size and allocated size of these folders.

Have I permanently lost these images, or can they be recovered somehow? I'm running Windows 10 build 18363.

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Hi Gururaj,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. I’ll certainly help you with this.

It's possible that the files in the Hard disk have become hidden. I suggest you try the following steps and check if it helps.

• Press Windows and X together to open File Explorer.
• Click on View tab and Click on
  Options at the top right corner.
• Click the View tab, and then click
  Show hidden files, folders, and drives.
• Click Apply and OK.
• Now check if you are able to view the files.

Hope this help you. Keep us posted with the status of the issue to assist you further.

Thank you.

 

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Hi Nick,

I suggest you to try the steps provided below and check the behavior.

• Create a new folder name it as 'My Videos'.
• Now copy/cut and paste the contents which are in the folder "Videos", and delete the folder "Videos".
• Now check the behavior.

Please keep us updated with the status of the folder, to assist you further.

Regards,