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back to listing indexWindows 7 Explorer: how to show total size of all files in current folder?
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In Windows XP Explorer one can turn on Status Bar which shows, among other things, the total size of all the files in the current folder, or if the cumulative size of the selected files. How do I get the same at-a-glance information in Windows 7? Selecting files doesn't count as it stops after 15 files, and it's rare that I'm concerned about total size with that few files (it's pretty easy to estimate in my head). thanks. UPDATE: Information derived from the context menu (select > r-click > properties) isn't "at a glance", and not as smooth as selecting files and clicking the details link at the bottom in any case. Thank you for fleshing out more of the available routes though. Yes Q19232 is similar to this one, though it is not a duplicate. That question is about looking for easy free-space on disk stats and this one is easy used-space by contents of this folder stats. The answer for both is the same though. You can't! Hopefully someone will figure how to get this lost feature back with a shell extension or something. |
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http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ Apparently there isn't an easy way, which is why the above freeware program was developed |
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If you navigate up one level, and right-click and select "Properties..." of the folder, it will tell you the total file size of the folder. You can also right click the background of the folder (not on a file) when you are browsing it and do the same thing. However, this will also include the size of all subfolders. |
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Right-clicking and selecting Properties displays the total size of whatever files and folders you have selected. If you right-click the "background" of the folder window, Properties gives you the total size of the folder, including any subfolders. |
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It looks like this behavior will return in Windows 8, with a limit of 99 selected files. If you need more than that, read my other answer on how to select them and get to their properties... |
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I haven't seen this mentioned but I highly recommend JdiskReport. It is a small Java app that actually gives you a disk space report that includes all sub folder for the selected drive or folder but then allows you to drill down into individual folders. It reports the size of each subfolder and of "Files in this Directory". I have nothing to do with this program other than being a long time happy user. http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ Chris |
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Another Open source Windows file manager |
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Folder Size Explorer is another option, simple and free:
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There is an open source software that works on windows 32 and 64 ! foldersize |
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Go to Organize, then in Layout menu check Menu bar. go to View in the menu bar, you can check the option of Status bar. |
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I find TreeSize works really well for this. I have TreeSize Professional on my machine, but there is also a freeware version. |
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Someone posted this, and it works, I can highlight while scrolling and it adds up the number and added size on the go Go to Organize, then in Layout menu check Menu bar. go to View in the menu bar, you can check the option of Status bar. |
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I had the same problem. I figured that when you select "Organize" and then under "Layout" you click on "Details pane" it shows the file properties. I am happy to have found this out, was scratching my head intermittently [since it was not the most important thing in the world :-)] |
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This allows you to very quickly select a bunch of files that must be constraint to some size.
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