# win\_find not returning deduplicated files on share

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-find-not-returning-deduplicated-files-on-share/30657>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [June 26, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-find-not-returning-deduplicated-files-on-share/30657 "2019-06-26T09:58:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Benson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Mark\_Benson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Benson)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-find-not-returning-deduplicated-files-on-share/30657/1 "2019-06-26T09:58:55Z")

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Hi all,

I’ve been looking at the win\_find module to get a list of .exe files from a Windows share but win\_find is not returning the .exe files.

The .exe files are deduplicated and looking at their properties in Windows explorer, they appear as:

‘Size: 180MB’  
‘Size on disk: 0 bytes’.

win\_find is successfully returning other (non deduplicated) files and it is showing the correct number of files in the share directory (the number of files including the deduplicated .exe files).

Any suggestions as to why win\_find isn’t showing these files?