Are the "hidden" files some sort of "deleted" files in some sort of "hidden 
trash folder"?  But still being counted as "existing" because they are there 
and are recognized by the OS?

Fred Holmes

At 02:40 AM 11/26/2009, mike wrote:
>I've got two drives I should have been using a mirroring tool to...mirror.
>But due to laziness and thinking it would be easy to not, I had not.  So now
>I am checking for missing files between the two.
>
>Drive 1 has folder A with 13 files in the folder.  If I get properties on
>this folder, it says there are 18 files in the folder.  I have show hidden
>files checked, I triple checked that value to be sure.  So I am showing 5
>ghost files.  When I get properties on the files contained in the two
>drives, I've got a 500 file difference with the one showing at least 5 ghost
>files having 500 more files.  I am perplexed to be sure.  I've run error
>check..any ideas?
>
>win 7


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