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I've seen this on two computers running Win10 1803 64-bit:
Start Explorer
Go into C:\Users
Right-click on username, properties
Check the size/size on disk figures.
Now go into that folder, select all folders, properties, and check the figure you get.
I'm not sure what logic the first figure from the size of the user folder is following, but in two cases it's been off by a large margin. For example, the first time I tried it, I got a figure of about 1GB when the Pictures folder inside that user folder was at least 12GB. I saw another case of it today on another customer's computer.
A fresh wipe-clean install of 1607 upgraded to 1803 on a laptop I have here seems to be reporting the correct figure, but then the user folder is basically a virgin (ie. I wonder if disparity might occur if say the Documents/Pictures folder was populated with data)
Start Explorer
Go into C:\Users
Right-click on username, properties
Check the size/size on disk figures.
Now go into that folder, select all folders, properties, and check the figure you get.
I'm not sure what logic the first figure from the size of the user folder is following, but in two cases it's been off by a large margin. For example, the first time I tried it, I got a figure of about 1GB when the Pictures folder inside that user folder was at least 12GB. I saw another case of it today on another customer's computer.
A fresh wipe-clean install of 1607 upgraded to 1803 on a laptop I have here seems to be reporting the correct figure, but then the user folder is basically a virgin (ie. I wonder if disparity might occur if say the Documents/Pictures folder was populated with data)
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