OK, here's the skinny,
It's really what we've all been surmising (more or less):
If I create a Notepad document containing one character and save it on my desktop and check its' properties, I see:
Size: 1 bytes [1 bytes], 4,096 bytes used
If I copy that file onto a FAT drive and check its' properties there,
I see:
Size: 1 bytes [1 bytes], 32,768 bytes used
And, if I had been paying attention, I might not have had to ask all these silly questions, because if you "select all" the files and folders in a drive and click on properties, you see:
Type: Multiple Types
Location: All in G:
Size: 751MB [787,692,487 bytes], 915,210,240 bytes used
So, really, the answer is right there in the last line: 751MB is the total of the actual file sizes, while 915,210,240 bytes is the space used by them. I was ignoring the second (space used) number.
I believe one wise man said "What I know is what I see" and another wise man said "What I see is what I know". And another said, "A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest".
I say "whatever..."
wily
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