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I'm doing some investigation related to another of my recent posts here:

Need explanation for "[ERROR] ...File / Folder does not exist

The other post describes "$$$" being inserted into some iPhone file names, after transfer to IDrive from iCloud.

OBJECTIVE: 
I want to know if IDrive sees SOME filenames differently for another cloud drive - compared with a hard drive.

I did the following:
- Copy all photos from iCloud to drive D:
- Backup those photos fom drive D:  to IDrive

iD and iC are both "cloud" drives, whereas drive D: is a standard disk.

CONCLUSIONS:

- For static files, iD, iC, and DOS sees the same sizes for the photos folder:

--  Number of files:  2611
--  Total size:          10.9 GB

- But in transit between drive D: and iD, iD obviously sees values that are changing dynamically.  But here is one set of values - part-way through the transfer:

-- Completed files:  2,680, 7.1 GB
-- Remaining files:   3,717, 15.4 GB
--  Total files:           6,397, 22.5 GB

BTW: When I did the transfer from iCloud to D: drive. I saw the same strangely high values for number of files and file sizes.

Maybe IDrive has always displayed strange numbers at the foot of the panel during transit. I'll pay more attention in future.

Footnote: Some of the folks might be wondering why I'm using IDrive to backup files from iCloud

Reason: iCloud is a copy of what you have on your phone. So, if you accidentally delete some files from the phone, they are immediately deleted from iCloud. (Maybe there's a period of grace - I can't remember).

Thanks

Last edited by OldGrantian (2022-11-17 07:18:31)