Hi, when I run:  dir/s/A c:\FileStructurePrev\ >C:\FileStructure\FileStructureSize.txt
in windows 8 result in unreadable re file size, see below:
RESULT!
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 6EA5-4BCA

 Directory of c:\FileStructurePrev

2017-01-18  09:23 AM              .
2017-01-18  09:23 AM              ..
2016-10-18  09:38 PM            32ÿ032 error messages plus.docx
2002-10-18  02:19 PM               195 filestruc.bat
2002-10-18  02:20 PM         1ÿ588ÿ209 filestruc.txt
2004-03-07  03:26 AM           275ÿ792 FileStrucSize.txt
RESULT THE FILE SIZE IS UNREADABLE. How do it solve this problem? Thank you.

What happens if you run this without passing the output to file. Do you see the ÿ character in the file SIZES when its run at command prompt and info passed to display vs to file?

Code: [Select]dir/s/A c:\FileStructurePrev\
Also where did this Windows 8 come from. Is it a download off the internet which was INSTALLED or came with computer? Asking this because I have seen people get Windows off of a torrent and have issues like this.This is a genuine package with cd's for 32 and 64bit of microsoft windows 8 prof. Screen display is perfect. When I open the file, it is unreadable.  You can test this by running dir>list.txt in any directory and open the file in that directory list.txt. It is unreadable. Thanks.Works fine here...I tested this in a VM as well, and the output file looks fine. Is your system set to a language other than english? It seems that in your problematic output, the comma's are unicode characters.Problem solved, I changed the language from English(South Africa) to English(UK).
Result.
18/10/2016  21:38            32,032 error messages plus.docx
18/10/2002  14:19               195 filestruc.bat
18/10/2002  14:20         1,588,209 filestruc.txt
Thank you.Nice catch BC Programmmer...Yes nice catch ...  I didnt EVEN think about that. I saw the ÿ character as corruption vs a write to file translation of unicode. LEARNED something new.