NAS Drive - Properties says 440GB, Explorer says 300GB

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NAS Drive - Right-click on Properties, it says 440GB. Manually examine every directory in Explorer it adds up to c.300GB

I've un-hidden the hidden files etc but somewhere there are c.140GB hiding on my NAS. May be a Windows backup but where?

Windows 7, Buffalo NAS.

Can't run TreeSize Free as it is a Network drive (I'm too mean to buy the Pro version).

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

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Can you, and have you, set-up different accounts on the drive?

My Netgear ReadyNAS can do this, I've created different accounts for work and household music, video and photos. The first only I can access, the latter is available throughout the house on LAN and WiFi. However, the available 2TB of space is shared across the accounts and each account reports the total capacity and free space. Yours may do this differently.

My Netgear also has it's own recycle bin, you can set max capacity for this. Not sure how it handles overflow but it does. Probably just dumps oldest files once full. Have a look at the admin interface.

Might just be firmware for the NAS though it sounds like too much for that.

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Only one account. The Trash folder does store deleted files but I've emptied that (permanently deleted).

Still stumped!

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andysdad said:
I've un-hidden the hidden files etc but somewhere there are c.140GB hiding on my NAS. May be a Windows backup but where?
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Have you also unhidden "Protected Operating System Files" ?
The "System Volume Information" may be the culprit.
 
Clive; tried that but no joy. As it is a NAS there are no system files on it.

On C:\ there are 47GB of System Volume files - just to tidy up things, I have now reduced this to max 10GB (these are restore points, I had 35 previous stored....) BUT these are not on the NAS.

Still stumped!

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GSTourer - thanks for that - I'm on W7 and the Size:Size on Disk error seems to be on W8. Looking at all the File Properties the figures were all the same, but I will look again - maybe a single file glitch that I missed asa I wasan't really looking at them both.

Got me stumped though - 100GB error....

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