Some folders' size listed as 0kb but yet contain 10gb+ of files?

Does anyone know what might be going on here? It's been inconsistent, sometimes the same folder will be listed in the Finder as the total size being 0kb, other times it shows what is likely to be the actual size...around 10gb or more in some cases. I've noticed this primarily on an external USB 3.0 drive lately because I've been cleaning out a lot of old/useless/duplicate files. Not sure yet if it's happening on the boot drive. In finder under VIEW>SHOW VIEW OPTIONS I always have checked "calculate all sizes". Any help is greatly appreciated, this is really aggravating when trying to figure out which duplicates to delete and such.

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