[dba-Tech] Folder Size

Bob Geldart bgeldart at verizon.net
Mon Jun 2 18:13:53 CDT 2008


Used to be an easy/quick way to do it at a DOS prompt, list all files 
below plus subdirectories, then sort by size, and output to printer or file.

Dir /S /O-S > Filename.txt

At 6/2/2008 01:22 AM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software wrote:
>Somewhere in that damn Documents and Settings folder there's a folder with a
>couple gigabytes of stuff.  Could be six folders deep for all I know.
>There's about 900+ sub-folders and 60,000+ files under my Documents and
>Settings.
>
>What I'm looking for is a utility that will display the folder structure
>like windows explorer does but with the size of the files in the folder so I
>can track down the big ones and free up some space.  There's gotta be a
>bunch of files in there I don't need.  Disk clean up didn't do much and I'm
>running out of room.
>
>Does anyone know of such a utility?
>
>Rocky


Bob Geldart             BGeldart at verizon.net
Maynard, MA  


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