I can confirm this bug. I've got several external USB drives formatted as NTFS. These drives were filled with media files over many older versions of Ubuntu, though now I'm running Jaunty. When Baobab scans these drives, it reports a wrong size for almost every folder containing files with long names. It reports all these folders as "contains hardlinks for: XX GB". However, I have discovered a (tedious) workaround: if I simply move all the files in that folder to a temp folder, then move them back, Baobab reports the folder size correctly (to the first level). However, this does not work recursively down the tree, so as you can imagine, this can be quite cumbersome if the tree structure is complicated. The workaround works whether I move the files using nautilus or with a terminal. Since I have a large media collection and a complex tree structure, I would like to automate the workaround so I don't have to touch every file by hand. I have been able to incorporate the workaround into a script, but it doesn't work recursively yet. Oh, and speaking of touching the files, "touch *" is not enough, nor is it enough to simply rename the folder. I don't know why, but I have found that the files have to be moved to a new folder, then back.
-- Baobab reports incorrect sizes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
