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When you place your pointer over a remote network share, the tooltip that is displayed incorrectly reports the size of the share. Any share that is larger than 2 gigabytes (GB) is reported to be 2,147,450,880 bytes.

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Article ID: 256576 - Last Review: January 27, 2007 - Revision: 1.3

The Size of a Remote Share Appears to Be 2,147,450,880 Bytes if the Share Is Over 2 Gigabytes

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SYMPTOMS

When you place your pointer over a remote network share, the tooltip that is displayed incorrectly reports the size of the share. Any share that is larger than 2 gigabytes (GB) is reported to be 2,147,450,880 bytes.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, right-click the network share, and then click Properties to view the actual size of the share.

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
  • Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Windows 95
  • Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
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