Why is LINK in Windows repeatedly counted in disk space?

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maniac_by2020-06-27 21:02:14

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maniac_by, 2020-06-27 21:02:14

For example, the All Users and All Users folders are links to App Data. But the system counts them and takes them into account separately with the size. And as a result, instead of 2.1 GB, more than 6 (!) GB are considered occupied. And this is just one example. A lot of things are duplicated. MS Office stores the cache in the root C:\ And also puts copies of files in App Data and in the installation path. As a result, all this expands to some mind-blowing size of 35-40GB. To understand, in my Ubuntu 20.04 the set of installed software is not very different, but it occupies 12-15GB on the disk. At least 2 times less. So what to do?

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Konstantin Tsvetkov, 2020-06-27
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What to do?

Remove all these backup installation packages from the system disk to the data disk, for example. And on the system make symbolic links.

C:\
09.01.2019  16:03    <JUNCTION>     MSOCache [D:\-disc C\MSOCache]

C:\Windows\Installer
C:\ProgramData\Packages
C:\ProgramData\Package Cache
C:\MSOCache

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Yan, 2020-06-27
@Slayer_nn

Windows uses Symbolic and Hard Links
For the same appdata there are at least 3 ways

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Artem @Jump, 2020-06-28
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Why is LINK in Windows repeatedly counted in disk space?

Why not?
How right?
You ask for the size of a certain folder - that's Windows and considers the sum of files in this folder.
And how much disk space these files take up is a completely different question.
Disk space and file size are rarely the same, and often very different.