Folder size incorrectly shown as 0?

[dedupeit]

I'm using the following filter to find and delete empty folders.

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 folder: size:0

I was just about to delete a few more folders when I thought that there's no way those could be empty. I opened them in Explorer and there are definitely files in there. So what can cause Everything to think that the size is 0?

[void]

Zero size doesn't mean empty.

Files can have a size of 0.

To find empty folders in your index, include the following in your search:

empty:

To find empty folders in your index that are also empty on disk:

empty: child-count-from-disk:0

empty:

[dedupeit]

Thanks for the clarification. I'll use those going forward.

Specifically for the issue I'm dealing with, these are folders with files that are not empty. If I right click the folder and select Properties, each show a number of files and a non zero size (as an example, one of the folders show 21 files and 10.5MB).

[dedupeit]

Interestingly, these folders also show up when I use

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empty:

but do not show up when I use

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empty: child-count-from-disk:0

These are on a regular hard drive, not a removable drive or a network drive.

[void]

Are you excluding any files/folders under Tools -> Options -> Exclude?
-If so, folders might be empty in your index, but not empty on disk.

Please try forcing a rebuild:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Indexes tab on the left.
• Click Force Rebuild.
• Click OK.

[dedupeit]

I'm excluding system files and folders. But this is just a regular folder with images.

I'll do a rebuild. Luckily I don't think I deleted anything important or unrecoverable. Thanks void!