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Paul_L
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Posted: 01:00am 23 Oct 2017

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I've begun moving files from my old desktop and laptop to the new Dell W10 machine.

I installed my favorite file manager, Total Commander, to the new machine.

Then I copied a directory tree containing 102,000 directories with 201,000 files totaling 50.2 GB to a 2 TB WD usb 3 drive. I then plugged the 2 TB drive into the new computer. W10 assigned it a drive letter.

File Explorer saw the drive and the 201,000 files and 102,000 directories.

Chkdsk saw the 201,000 files.

Total Commander could see the drive but thought it was empty!

Total Commander could see all the files on the c: drive just fine.

What the heck is going on?????????????

Paul in NY

Boppa
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Posted: 01:30am 23 Oct 2017

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https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=13574&view=next

seems others have the same thing- open it in windows, TC doesnt see it, open it in TC, windows doesnt see it

Paul_L
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Posted: 10:14am 23 Oct 2017

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Thanks Boppa, but that isn't it.

It wasn't a network mapped drive, it was plugged into a USB port on the new box.

It turns out there are a bunch of Total Commander switches located at <Configuration><Options><Display> for <Show hidden files>, <Show system files>, <Show parent directory>, and <Always load complete directory tree> which fixed the glitch after I got them sorted out.

My initial installation of TC dates to 07/09/1999 and it's been a long time since I messed with these settings.

Paul in NY

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