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Thank you, Callender
This is all making more sense with time.
The one disquieting experience was opening a folder to save a file, days after the CHKDSK experience, finding it and deciding to wait until I had a little more information to properly name the file, and then going to save it again and finding it gone. I'm sure there is a logical explanation, but that doesn't make the experience less disquieting.
I did download swiftsearch. It lives up to its name. I tried to open the folder and encountered "Access Denied." Perhaps 'run as administrator' would give different results? That said, I can see the folder 'System Volume Information' in ZTreeWin, 'run as administrator,' but I cannot view any aspects of it. It must be more than just "read only" in status.
That said, I think I will pass for now on the PowerToolx64V1.6 utility. It looks too powerful, too easy to do something dumb.
The SpaceSniffer equivalent I've tried is TreeSizeFree. It is fast and pretty intuitive.
ZTreeWin is a very powerful tool for the $30 that Kim Henkel now charges for access. I think you can try it for free for a month. I use it almost every day.
I will try exploring some of the aspects with the ZTree forum community.
I think we will call this 'solved.'
thanks,
baumgrenze