Membership of Domain Admins group not providing full NTFS access?

I recently tried to check the properties of a folder on the network to see what the total file size of its contents was (on a Server 2008 R2 server, logged on using my domain admin account).The total size of the contents reported was ony 6 MB. This was a folder I knew to contain subfolders totalling in excess of 300 GB, so something wasn't right. When I drilled down a level, I realized that the subfolders would also not let me check their properties or browse to them until I elevated my access in a UAC prompt. Apparently, I don't have read access to those folders, even though Domain Admins has full access to them and I am a member of Domain Admins.
This makes no sense!On the other hand...
If I add my domain admin account directly to the root folder and give myself full control this way, instead of relying on my membership of the Domain...
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