# Column Size - symbolic links
**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/column-size-symbolic-links/43732
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [February 20, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/column-size-symbolic-links/43732 "2023-02-20T01:36:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Zodler](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Zodler)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/column-size-symbolic-links/43732/1 "2023-02-20T01:36:39Z")
I have created some folders with mklink.
The column size calculates the size of those links too which it shouldn't.
For example DOpus says a folder is 40 GB while in reality if you get properties or use windows explorer, the size is 1 GB.
What to do? I don't want the symbolic link sizes show up in the column size.
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### Author:  [@Jon](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/column-size-symbolic-links/43732/2 "2023-02-20T01:37:43Z")
Turn on **Preferences / Folders / Folder Behavior / Ignore junctions and softlinks when calculating folder sizes**.