Foldersizes alternative to windows#
It would still be very useful to see the size of folders in windows explorer, but WinDirStat at least gives you a tool to mitigate the absence of the feature. It’s really the most useful tool I’ve found to see what’s hogging all your hd space. You can literally mouse over every single individual file on your computer and see it’s file path, but also click on it be taken to it’s containing folder in the list view. So, you can click on mp3 and all mp3’s are highlighted regardless of where they are on the drive. There’s also a smaller window that sorts size used by file type and switches on/off desired extensions in the graphic view. You can sort by size, name, number of files, number of subfolders, date modified, When you click on a folder in the list, it is highlighted on the graphic, and vise versa. It doesn’t count the files in those folders into the total number of files, but it DOES count them into the folder size property of X MB, for example.Īs someone said above WinDirStat is a very simple utility that will scan your drive(s) and give you a very detailed graphical look as well as a traditional list view for every folder and file on your system. So, if your folder contains two files and two folders, each with two files each, this view will still say two files and two folders. Tip: Windows only looks into the actual folder, not sub-folders. You’ll see what size a folder is, if it is compressed, how much space it takes up on the disk (this is the size on disk property), and even how many other files and folders are in the folder. PropertiesĪ new window will open up and show you some additional info on your folder. To do so, right-click on a folder and select Properties at the bottom of the menu. Use one of the other methods if this one doesn’t work for you!įor the most detailed view of your folder sizes, you’ll have to use the Properties feature. Tip: While the size property will appear, it may sometimes be empty – Windows can’t always correctly estimate file sizes in that view, especially for folders that contain additional folders. Select Size and the property will appear on the far right of your window. You’ll see some options – specifically, options, that let you pick what sort of info you want to see about your folders. Open a file explorer window and right-click on the ‘Name’ field at the top. If you want to see your file sizes permanently, you can easily change a setting to make this possible. You’ll see some additional info there, and part of that is the size of the folder! Information displayed on hover Open your File Explorer to a random location and hover for a second or two over the folder in question. If the locations are on separate physical drives, this will reduce the scan time dramatically.If you want to see the size of your folders, you can actually do so just by hovering over a folder.
"Select Multiple Locations" button to scan multiple locations simultaneously. In order to enable the filter or setup a new one pressing the button again will show the filter settings dialog.Ģ) In order to scan an entire drive select it from the drop-down list and press the Scan button.ģ) In order to scan a single folder press the Scan Folder button. In order to disable the filter press the button again and it will go up and disable filtering.
If you exit the dialog with OK it will remain down denoting that filtering is applied. If you press it the filter dialog is displayed in order to setup a new filtering rule. Please note that the filter button (The one with the funnel icon) is a two state button. Additional information is available on our Folder Sizes FAQ page. At the bottom of the dialog choose if the filter should match Files, Folders or both. Then set filtering based on Name, Size, Attributes and File age. First you have to choose whether the items that match the filter will be included or excluded from the results.
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