Besides scanning an entire hard drive Folder Size can also scan a single folder in order to save time. This tool will help you to easily cleanup your disk by listing all the file sizes and folder sizes in a neat report. Folder Size can list backup folders, system folders, hidden folders, and also the system volume information folder. All the missing disk space will be revealed instantly. Windows Explorer is the core file management tool in Microsoft Windows, but it does not list folder size.
Many users thinks that this should be included by default and that they should not need an external tool, but they are totally wrong. Read this article if you want to know why Folder sizes in Windows 10 , 8, 7, Vista, XP, , are missing. When the system allocates space and reads and writes disks, it frequently accesses MFT.
Since the MFT can be used continuously to access all other files on the disk, it will also gradually become fragmented, resulting in longer disk access times. WizTree software not only finds the largest folder that is on the hard disk but also easily obtains a large list of files that occupy the most hard disk space.
Graphical Visual Treemap allows you to spot large files and large collections of smaller files at a glance. Simply click on any button and the disk files will be given right away including the hidden files. The shortcut menu commands to quickly open WizTree can also be added to the Explorer via the corresponding command in the Options menu. If the above method of displaying the proportion of the disk or the disk occupied by the file is not intuitive enough, then we can use the Glary Utilities to solve the graphical capacity display, making the disk ratio display more intuitive.
It is available in both Free and Pro versions. Here we are using Free version which is enough to find out the folder size individually including Pir chart. Here is the link to download this software: Glary Utilities.
I tried some extended properties, but those don't seem to work either, so you're probable best off calculating it yourself by iterating on all files in the folder. I think Filip might be right.
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Featured on Meta. To show the size of a folder, Windows Explorer would have to read ever file within every sub-folder before it could return a result.
Unfortunately, this takes time and uses up a lot of the systems processing power. Regardless, it seems odd that they didn't provide it as an option in Explorer's settings. The column for size is already there for files so it would just be a matter of writing the code to calculate the folder size when the option is enabled. Nevertheless, Explorer does provide some features to help users calculate folder sizes.
The easiest and most well known method is to use the context menu and check the properties of the folder. If you right click a folder and select properties Explorer will recursively scan every file and display the total size as it progresses in the properties window you can see in the screenshot on the right.
This works well though sometimes it's hard to know when the process has finished as it can pause for a time before continuing on. It would be nice to see something that tell you it's completed at the end.
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