Display folder sizes in Windows Explorer

Anonymous
2010-07-08T15:02:20+00:00

I am trying to get folder size to display in the Details pane in Windows Explorer (in Vista).  When I had Windows XP (professional edition), it would display this down there, but not so with Vista.  In XP I could just click on a folder, and the size of the folder would be in the Details pane, but Vista doesn't do this.  (The only drawback was that the size of subfolders was not included there, only the size of the individual files in that folder; but just expanding the folder in the navigation pane, and then clicking on each subfolder, would allow me to figure this out.)  I will be leaving my office soon, and want to get an idea of the size of the files I want to carry with me (and how many CD's I might need--can't use USB memory drives on govt. system) when I go.  I have looked through Windows Help, but I can't find the answer to this question.  Anyone?

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Anonymous
2010-07-08T23:42:30+00:00

Thesize is in the tooltip for a folder

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"Arclight56" wrote in message news:2a687649-c233-4553-a1a8-4f3de6ab5cba...

>I am trying to get folder size to display in the Details pane in Windows

>Explorer (in Vista). When I had Windows XP (professional edition), it

>would display this down there, but not so with Vista. In XP I could just

>click on a folder, and the size of the folder would be in the Details pane,

>but Vista doesn't do this. (The only drawback was that the size of

>subfolders was not included there, only the size of the individual files in

>that folder; but just expanding the folder in the navigation pane, and then

>clicking on each subfolder, would allow me to figure this out.) I will be

>leaving my office soon, and want to get an idea of the size of the files I

>want to carry with me (and how many CD's I might need--can't use USB memory

>drives on govt. system) when I go. I have looked through Windows Help, but

>I can't find the answer to this question. Anyone?

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Anonymous
2010-07-08T17:16:32+00:00

Right click on the Folder and click on properties and it will show you the number of files, the number of folders, the sizes of each and other such details.  You can also hover your mouse over the folder and it will show tooltips which include the sie (but not so much information as properties).

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-10-20T21:05:57+00:00

    Welcome to Microsoft, where the end-user design is always the least useful.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-07-23T07:01:36+00:00

    This is the real world and whether Microsoft SHOULD leave things up to the user is immaterial.  They have to sell soap, and speed (even if it is only the appearance of speed, and even if it pisses off people who feel entitled to an operating system that works they way they want it to), sells.

    If that were true, then like I said, they would have removed the ability to use thumbnail-mode (let alone the ability to set it as the default view) as well as network-mapped drives.

    There are countless threads on the Internet of people complaining about slow computers, to which the answer was that they had a network-mapped drive causing the issue.

    Just yesterday I was trying to sort and organize a folder full of graphic files. Any folder set to thumbnail-mode with more than a one or two hundred pictures causes the system to become much less responsive (and can even hang the whole system).

    Again, using performance as an excuse is absurd. I have about a quarter of a million files scattered on my drives and I have set the Folder Size column to be visible by default. Yes, it causes things to slow down a little (for less than a minute), but even on my old, slow system it doesn’t cause anywhere near enough of a slow-down to justify getting rid of it and losing the massive benefit it brings.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-07-23T06:13:13+00:00

    Thanks for setting me straight on the second point.  I disagree with you about the first.  This is the real world and whether Microsoft SHOULD leave things up to the user is immaterial.  They have to sell soap, and speed (even if it is only the appearance of speed, and even if it pisses off people who feel entitled to an operating system that works they way they want it to), sells.

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