Missing File Size Column in WS2K8!
WTF? I recently started using Windows Server 2008 and noticed that in file explorer there's apparently no "size" column anymore! Why in God's name would anyone take this away??? As if file explorer wasn't bad enough not showing folder sizes, let's take it away from files too now?
Bizaare.... Are there any ways to get the size column restored? It doesn't appear when I use the "Choose details" dialogue by right-clicking a folder either. Looking inside the dialogue the "Size" detail just isn't there!
Can someone explain what's going on?
Gratefully,
ROSS
DCX3
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That's beyond bizarre. Are you sure that you haven't suddenly developed cataracts or something? Size is one of the default columns and should definitely be present in the Choose Details dialogue. In my Choose Details dialogue, Size is the 4th item in the list.
- I've taken a screenshot (linked here if it's not visible to you in the body of this post); this is what I see when I try to find the size column on any folder in my Windows Server 2008 install. Bizaare is a very fogiving way of putting it! Although I can't display the whole list here, you can be assured that nowhere is there an option for "Size" or "Total Size" nor anything else with the word "size".
Again I ask: what can cause this? How should I proceed???
Help greatly appreciated - perhaps someone from Microsoft is reading???
ROSS
DCX3 Hello Ross,
Yes, the size column should contained in the Windows Explorer by default. Could you please take a additional screenshot when you scroll down to the attributes that starts with S in the Choose detail dialog box?
And is your Windows Server 2008 the RTM version? Please provide the version of the OS and Explorer.exe.
- Was there a resolution to this problem? I'm having the same issue on one of my Vista machines.
Thanks for any help. - Yesterday an update was performed on Vista (service pack 2). Today I have the same problem -- no file size is listed in folders (they were there yesterday!) and it's not even listed in the choose detail dialog box.
Thanks
- Hi,
Same problem today with Vista...
After some upgrade from windows update no more size column.
regards
MPN
- Does any one know of a resolution to this problem? I'd like to get the document size listed in Windows explorer.
Thanks, Valerie
- The answer was in the clues in this thread - I was scratching my head as to why both file size and attributes columns had gone/changed in Vista Explorer in the last couple of days as well. I spotted in Windows Update that Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista (KB940157) had installed itself in the right time period for this, so I uninstalled it and rebooted. Success! Everything is back as it was with file sizes in the column as before...
I do wish updates would not take away functionality without warning or choice - this has wasted my evening trying to work it out and fix it!!
Regards
Richard - Great job Richard, and thanks for sharing the solution. It was quite frustrating to lose file sizes.
Take Care,
T. During the Windows Search 4.0 installation, it seems that your Property Schema Cache was not created correctly. Deleting the following registry value would be the ideal solution:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PropertySystem\PropertySchema\@CachedSchema
This solution allows you to keep Windows Search 4.0- Allen Kim - MSFT said:
During the Windows Search 4.0 installation, it seems that your Property Schema Cache was not created correctly. Deleting the following registry value would be the ideal solution:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PropertySystem\PropertySchema\@CachedSchema
This solution allows you to keep Windows Search 4.0
I had this exact same problem and deleting the registry key worked for me. I had to kill the explorer.exe and restart it to get it to take though. - Allen Kim - MSFT said:Hi Allen, your fix worked for me as well. Thanks a bunch.
During the Windows Search 4.0 installation, it seems that your Property Schema Cache was not created correctly. Deleting the following registry value would be the ideal solution:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PropertySystem\PropertySchema\@CachedSchema
It seems that there must a lot of people are having this problem - I hope MSFT is doing something for those poor souls who don't know how to research or implement the fix. After all, it was installing MS updates and SP's that broke the display of file size info.
--adam
This works for me too!!!
But on my PC I could`t find following registry value:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PropertySystem\PropertySchema\@CachedSchema
with an `@` sign. Only without an `@` sign. I have deleted this value and logged out. After logged in everything works fine.
Before loosing file size column I installed Windows Search and then SP2.
