I have a problem~ette with File::Find. OS: MS Windows Server 2003 Enterprose x64 bit
Perl: v5.5.8 MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
File System: NTFS (952gb)
Q. I'm using File::Find quite happily until... my script (which works perfectly on other servers) stops prematurely for no apparent reason part way through the drive being examined. I picked this up because Windows Properties for e:\ told me there was 208GB used file space & I was only picking up some 30GB.

NB For files > 2GB I get the info using dos “DIR”, apologies for that?

Some of the file names encountered on the drive frankly bizarre!

I tried:-

(1) Running the script against the largest folder in the drive and again I was only seeing 178,610 files instead of the 252,115 files that IE told me were present.

(2) A small scripts that just counts the number of files in the projects folder found 204,257.

Both scripts are consistent in the number of files they find.

I get several warnings that "Can't cd to e:..." The filename displayed is always 293 characters in length.

Hopefully this is one for Sybil Fawlty who’s specialist subject is, “the bleeding obvious” but I just can’t see it. My Perl Cookbook makes no mention of large filenames/handles.

I have spent some time looking for a solution with no luck.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

Simon<BR

In reply to Missing files & File::Find.pm by sbas013

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