03-05-2008, 03:24 PM
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 | Desi Club Badshah | | |
  Re: ~ A Tip A Day ~
05 March 2008:
Show the Folder Size Explorer shows the collective size of the files in a folder down in the Status bar, but this statistic never includes the subfolders. Why doesn't Explorer show the size of all the contents of a folder?
It does, but not in the Status bar. Right-click a folder and select Properties, and Explorer will calculate the size of the folder and all its contents including subfolders reporting both the total number of bytes and the actual disk space consumed. (The latter is always a larger number because files, no matter how small, consume disk space in discrete chunks called clusters). Of course, this gets rather time-consuming if you want to check the sizes of more than a handful of folders.
To display folder sizes right in Windows Explorer, install the free Folder Size for Windows extension, available at Folder Size for Windows Explorer . Open Windows Explorer, navigate to any folder on your hard disk, and select View --> Details. Right-click any column header (or go to View --> Choose Details), and place a checkmark next to Folder Size. This gives you a new Folder Size heading that shows the sizes of both individual files and the contents of folders (you can turn off the Size column now, since the file size display will be redundant). Note: Due to a limitation in Windows XP's support for "column handlers" like the Folder Size extension, you won't be able to sort Explorer listings reliably by clicking the Folder Size column header. As a partial fix, a second column, Folder Size Sort, is also included in the package. Although it omits the comma separators and "KB" designation, it can properly sort files by size .
At this point, you can rearrange and resize the columns by dragging them with your mouse. |