Re: [sleuthkit-users] Autopsy Survey: Directory Contents Count

[Hoyt H. <hoy...@gm...>]

I'm okay with counting those. If I need to enumerate a directory with that
count, it's easy enough to subtract two and explain it with a statement in
the narrative report.


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Brian Carrier <ca...@sl...> wrote:

> Currently, the tree on the left of Autopsy shows the number of items in
> the directory.  If there is a "." or ".." entry in the directory, they are
> included in the count.  In our last training course, someone suggested that
> we should not include those entries in the number so that a directory with
> no files or sub-folders shows up as "0" in the tree except "2".   I'm a bit
> torn on this one because they are in fact entries in the database and some
> could also get confused that there are more rows in the table than what was
> reported.
>
> Thoughts? Do you want the number in the tree to include the "." and ".."
> or not?
>
> brian
>
>
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