File counts are wrong.....

Hello,

This is a very strange problem. I recently upgraded an XP system to Vista
RC1. I have a single very large folder that contains about 20,000 MP3 files.
When I right click on this folder and click Properties, Vista says there are
about 28,000 files in that directory. This is definately not right.

So I went into that directory and selected a subdirectory that contained
only 5 files. When I right click on that directory, the count says 6. I have
selected 'View Hidden & System Files', but there are no hidden files in that
directory.

What is up with this? I'm just concerned that the filesystem itself may be
corrupted.

One theory - does the 'file count' include directories? This would be
strange, because there is also a separate directory count.

Sorry for the multiple posts. The Web site kept returning an error, so I
thought the post wasn't successful..........

"Warwick Webb" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is a very strange problem. I recently upgraded an XP system to Vista
> RC1. I have a single very large folder that contains about 20,000 MP3 files.
> When I right click on this folder and click Properties, Vista says there are
> about 28,000 files in that directory. This is definately not right.
>
> So I went into that directory and selected a subdirectory that contained
> only 5 files. When I right click on that directory, the count says 6. I have
> selected 'View Hidden & System Files', but there are no hidden files in that
> directory.
>
> What is up with this? I'm just concerned that the filesystem itself may be
> corrupted.
>
> One theory - does the 'file count' include directories? This would be
> strange, because there is also a separate directory count.