Documentation/Info on this sign

[Peter Otten]

Bart Nessux wrote:

> Both functions produce the same results (33,000 files)... the problem:
> the filesystem has twice as many files (66,000) than the actual sums of
> these two counts when doing a virus scan or an adaware scan. To make
> matters more confusing... the IBM Tivoli backup software that I use
> confirms the Python counts when it does a backup. I don't know of a way
> to see what the OS has to say what it thinks is correct. Any ideas on
> how to do this?

Maybe you have a symlink (how are they called in windows?) in the root
folder. The number of files would vary depending on whether the software
follows symlinks or not. That could explain the factor 2.

Peter