PSE 7 Backup Discrepancy

I'm running PSE 7 on Vista. Because my internal drive was full I moved all of my pictures to a clean external drive. The size of the folder is 300 GB. I then did a full backup to a second clean external drive but the size of that folder is only 218 GB. I then did an incremental backup but the size of the folder didn't really change. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

I have seen a couple of reports that files moved in PSE 6 and 7 left files disconnected.   Some more troubleshooting questions:
1.      When you did the move, did you use PSE’s File > Move or did you drag-and-drop folders in Display > Folder Location view?   The latter will move any other files that are in folders even if they’re not in the catalog, which could explain the difference between 300 and 218 GB.
2.      If you did File > Move, did you see any error messages?  PSE 6 File > Move has a serious bug that will permanently delete a file if the destination folder has a file of the same name as that being moved.  This situation is very likely to arise if you’re moving many files in many folders.   When a file gets permanently deleted, it will show up in the catalog as missing.
3.      Try File > Reconnect > All Missing again to verify no more files are missing.
4.      Count the total number of files in PSE backup folder on the backup drive.
5.      Count the number of files in your catalog, a little harder than it sounds, due to stacks, version sets, and other issues.  Make sure all media types are checked in View > Media Types, and make sure Hidden Files > Show All Files is checked.  Do Find > By Filename, and enter a nonsense string, e.g. “s;lkdaaeioqjfkekrjasdif”.  Then click Options (to the right of Show All) and read out the number after Options > Show Results That Do Not Match – that’s the total number of files in your catalog.
If the numbers of files from steps 4 and 5 aren’t close, then that suggests there are files on the external drive that aren’t cataloged.

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