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WinDirStats - Windows Directory Statistics, private clone from:
https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat
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C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\ ignored and shown as unknown #8

Open avogelba opened 10 years ago

avogelba commented 10 years ago

Originally reported by: Oliver (Bitbucket: assarbad, GitHub: assarbad)

Reported by https://sourceforge.net/u/userid-930398/

Windirstat was showing some 8 GB of unknown space on one of my Win2003 servers. Finally I found these to be located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\ folder. The files were accessible using explorer, which was showing the correct size. Is there a reason WinDirStat ignored these?

Anonymous remarked:

Windir Stat can't see the event log files directory on Windows 2008 Server C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs. In my case the event log had filled up to 60 gbs and windir stat said that it was "unknown". I figured out that the event log had 60gigs by using TreeSize.

I even ran windir stat as administrator and still had the same issue.

https://sourceforge.net/u/pgfiore/ remarked:

The bug is still active, at least on my Win 2008 R2 SP1. C:\Windows\System32\winevt is not displayed at all and "unknow" files (basicly subfolders full of .evtx) are computed as "C:"

Anonymous remarked:

The contents of C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles is ignored and accounted as . The account I am using to run WinDirStat is administrator and has full access. What’s wrong? Why aren’t all directories parsed?

avogelba commented 8 years ago

Original comment by Devon Hubner (Bitbucket: DevoKun, GitHub: DevoKun):

I am experiencing this same problem on Windows Server 2012 R2 with WinDirStat 1.1.2.80

C:\Windows\System32\winevt is not recognized by WinDirStat

When manually entering the path to winevt the OK button will become greyed out. windirstat_missing_winevt2.mov.gif

C:\Windows\System32\winevt contains 44gb of data

windows_2012_r2_system32_size.png

avogelba commented 10 years ago

Original comment by Robin Seelaender (Bitbucket: robin_seelaender, GitHub: Unknown):

Hello Oliver,

please have a look @http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2958081/anyone-know-why-i-cant-access-the-winevt-folder-programmatically-in-c

i think you could workaround this problem programatically. Alternative would be to make it a 64-bit application.

i use windirstat since many years and always loved it. but since some time i run into the same issues like the others reported.

Please update this application, it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Robin Seeländer

avogelba commented 10 years ago

Original comment by Aakash Shah (Bitbucket: aakashshah, GitHub: aakashshah):

I too just noticed this problem today - I was missing 16.5gb of log files that had accumulated in the Logs folder. The total size of the disk also reported to be much smaller than it actually was (which is what prompted to dig further using a different tool).

I hope this can be fixed soon.

Thanks!