Network Locations in the Red

Network locations in This PC show to be full to the brim, despite having "8,191 PB of 8,191 PB" free space (which is why in Windows File Explorer and others they usually show empty instead of full):

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I'm not sure how it's calculated as 99% full. For it's quite distracting and looking worrying as is, is there a way to show them empty or to hide it for network locations only?

It looks like the values are simply wrong. Are they wrong in File Explorer as well?

No, Opus is the only one making it 99% full instead of 0 or 1%.

Unless you really have 40 exabytes ( 40,000,000,000 GB ) of network storage I'd say there's a problem there.

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The OS can't see how much storage those network locations have or have used. Even if all within the folders would be calculated, that wouldn't be the full capacity with installations and all, so that is merely what it defaults to. They are all scalable (including some unlimited Google Drives), so in theory I do indeed have that much storage. :wink:

After some experimenting, it seems Opus' calculation breaks around 164 PB, and in some odd ways too, with it thinking 166 PB has a bit more free space left):
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Not a big deal for now indeed, although that does mean IBM soon won't be able to make proper use of it for they currently sit at around 120 PB per storage device. :sweat_smile: