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Missing Size column in Windows Explorer

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by shanghai sam

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I had an HDD failure on an NT 4.0 server boot disk. After the HW vendor sent a replacement drive (waranty), I reloaded the op system and my 3rd party backup client (Retrospect), then restored the system from my recent backup. The restore seems to beok, all the files, directories and even the shares show up fine. But in Windows Explorer the 'Size' column does not show up. If I use the properties dialog on any file it shows the file's size just fine. The machine as backed up was a PDC on SP5, when I reloaded the op system on the new drive I set it up again as PDC and I applied SP6 before doing the volume restore. After several back and forth emails with the backup SW vendor, they suggested I contact Microsoft. Has anyone seen a similar situation where the size column just doesn't show up in Win Explorer? I tried changing options there but none resolve the size column not showing up.
Thanks for any help,
Mike

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by syscokid

You see the little vertical lines separating the columsn in Explorer? Let's say your first column is Name, and the next one is Type. Size would be between name and Type. Position your mouse cursor on the vertical line. It should turn into a left/right pointing arrow. Hold down the left mouse button. Drag to the right. I bet you'll uncover the Size column!

by dklippert

Click on one record in the right pane. Hit the Ctrl key and the + sign on the number keypad.

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