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by robertoandred 712 days ago
Explorer can’t even sort folders by size…
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OptionOfT 712 days ago
That's because folders have no size. It requires calculating children size recursively.
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sznio 712 days ago
It could be done quickly by reading the MFT. WizTree can calculate the size of all 236k directories/800k files on my system in two seconds. For some reason, Explorer takes ~10 seconds to calculate the size of a single directory (Program Files, 17k directories, 240k files). If Explorer just did what WizTree does, it could actually show and sort by directory sizes.
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robertoandred 709 days ago
You're saying the size of the folder's contents is its size? Wow, that would sure be useful information for a file explorer to expose.
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