Title: incorrect file size sometimes
Last modified: September 14, 2016

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# incorrect file size sometimes

 *  [mkealy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkealy/)
 * (@mkealy)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-file-size-sometimes/)
 * On some of my files the file size displayed is incorrect. I tried unchecking “
   Cache retrieved file sizes” and re-uploading the files but that didn’t fix it.
   So far, this has only happened on my files with shorter names, for example: 2015-
   plan, all of which have supplemental files with similar names, like 2015-plan-
   cover and 2015-plan-ch1. What seems to have resolved the issue is adding more
   to the file name, like 2015-plan-adopted, and then the file size is correct. 
   For the most recent occurrence, I realized the displayed file size for the plan
   was the same as the cover image, which was about 80 kb, instead of the accurate
   file size of ~15 MB. It seems like I’ve found a solution through using longer
   file names, but I just wanted to throw this issue out there in case there is 
   a better approach. Thank you!

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-file-size-sometimes/)
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