Where is it and How much space does it take up?

November 1, 2007 1:06 PM

Looking for a windows tool that can find a folder name and compile the size of all folders with said name.

For instance:

I have a terabyte of data with millions of folders. I want to find all folders named "Source" and display the amount of space they are taking up. The "Source" folder can be buried in other folders.

My favorite Agent Ransack will find me all folders named "Source" and I can print out the paths, but does not give me total file size.

Appreciate the help!

posted by bleucube to computers & internet (10 comments total)

As far as folder size, I use this little addon and it works great. I guess I'd probably just search the directory and choose a detail view to see the sizes from that.
posted by sanka at 1:12 PM on November 1, 2007

I tried using Windows Search, was my first thing but there must me some maximum limit it can search or display. Cannot show results pass 460 folders and locks up on multiple PC's :(
posted by bleucube at 1:20 PM on November 1, 2007

It may not be the solution you're looking for but it's a pretty easy problem on a system with the usual *NIXy type userland tools. On my one windows box I rather like the cygwin project:

du -k /cygdrive/c | sort -g

In short - starting at the root of drive c:, recursively calculate each folder's size in kb and sort the result numerically.

Want just the 'source' folders?

du -k /cygdrive/c | sort -g | grep -i "source"

To search case insensitively.
posted by mce at 1:46 PM on November 1, 2007

not the prettiest answer, but tree size pro sizes every file\folder on whatever drive\folder you scan, and you can then export that report to excel, then use excel find to search for all folders with name "xxxxxx"
posted by fumbducker at 1:59 PM on November 1, 2007

Maybe this will help. Check out spacemonger 1.4.0
It builds up a graphical representation of your hard drive, folders and space usage. I really like that tool.
It might or might not have an option for sorting and filtering. You'll have to play around.
Spacemonger 1.4.0
The main page is http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php but the download link for 1.4.0 is hidden within the site. Version 2.x is not as good, plus it's not freeware.
posted by PowerCat at 2:22 PM on November 1, 2007

The free version of Treesize lets you filter and sort by name.
posted by desjardins at 2:32 PM on November 1, 2007

dir /s is your friend.
posted by jeffamaphone at 2:35 PM on November 1, 2007

"dir /s >longlist.txt" as a command prompt will output a largish file to your user directory which you can then copy into Excel. It will have the directory names and the folder sizes there, but you'll have to figure out how to get rid of the garbage.
posted by erpava at 3:28 PM on November 1, 2007

Treesize i use at work to find out where all the server diskspace has got too.
posted by browolf at 5:26 PM on November 1, 2007

That worked! Thanks!
posted by bleucube at 6:57 AM on November 2, 2007