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?
FAQ 27: Updated on: 25 July 2018 00:13
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).
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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.
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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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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..
Another Open source Windows file manager
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.
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Folder Size Explorer is another option, simple and free:
Folder Size Explorer is a simple and free Windows Explorer clone with the added ability to calculate folder sizes.
There is an open source software that works on windows 32 and 64 ! foldersize
This allows you to very quickly select a bunch of files that must be constraint to some size.
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.
I find TreeSize works really well for this.
I have TreeSize Professional on my machine, but there is also a freeware version.
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.
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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When you open any folder inside Windows Explorer (Win+E), it will display the size of individual files contained in that folder but you won’t get to know about the size of various sub-folders that are located inside that folder. The same is true for Windows Explorer available inside XP as well as Vista.
If you find this limitation annoying, what you really need is Folder Size – a free utility that adds a new column in your Windows Explorer to display the size of files as well as folders.
Folder Size installs a Windows service that scans your hard drive in the background, calculates the folder sizes and caches these results, so the results in most cases are almost instantaneous.
To add the Folder Size column in Windows Explorer, right click on the column headers to see a list of columns you can add and choose 'Folder Size' and also uncheck the Size column. You may drag the Folder Size column header to where Size used to be. Make this the default view for all folders.
Folder Size is currently available for Windows 2000 and Windows XP but the developer is close to releasing a new version that would work with Windows Vista as well.
See also – Xplorer2, a much better Windows Explorer.
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When you open any folder in Windows 10/8/7 display, File Explorer will typically display the following details about the objects – name, date modified, Type, Size, etc. But if you wish, you can display additional information or details about the objects, be they document files, image files, video files or folders.
Let us see how we can choose the folder details to display and show additional information in Windows File Explorer columns.
Choose Folder details to display
Open File Explorer and make sure that you have set its Folder View to display Details. Next click on the Add columns button.
From the drop-down menu which appears, you can select some additional file attributes to display. If you need to see all the information that can be displayed about the file, click on Choose columns to open the following Choose Details box.
Here you will be able to select the details that you wish to display for the items in this folder like Account Name, Album artist, Authors, Date acquired, date archived, Document ID, Folder path, Tags, Title, Word count and so on
Selecting these entries will also let you Sort or Group the objects using these attributes.
You can also arrange the column order by using the Move up or Move down buttons and set the width of the columns.
Once you have done this, you will have to open Folder Options. To do this, you will have to click on Options > Change folder and search options.
Under the View tab, click the Apply to Folders button.
This will apply this folder view to all folders of a particular type.
Hope this helps.
Check this post if you want to change file attributes and this one if Windows forgets Folder View settings.
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If you haven’t known, here is a pretty cool tip that lets you search and find the files by size right in File Explorer on Windows 10 or Windows Explorer on Windows 7.
Search files by size in File Explorer on Windows 10
Because of the ribbon introduced in Windows 10, there are a number of new options added in Search ribbon when the Search box in File Explorer is selected.
Open File Explorer and navigate to a folder that contains files that you want to search by the size. Click on the Search box or simply press the F3 key, the Search ribbon shows up like below:
Click the Size option in Refine section and a number of pre-defined search options show up, allowing you to quickly filter out the file list by the selected search option.
Pick one that suits your need and you will have a list of files that match that criteria.
Well, by looking at this pre-defined size list, I don’t feel like it would be much useful in a real life. Who thinks a 128 MB file is huge nowadays.
What’s more useful is to set your own customized size filter right in the search box. For example, type the following search criteria in the search box,
The File Explorer will list all the files between 1 GB and 4 GB for you in a second or two. And this is much useful than finding all the files between 16 and 128 MB.
Search files by size in Windows Explorer on Windows 7
Since Windows 7 only has the search box in Windows Explorer, you can simply use the same size filter trick explained earlier to archive the same thing.
Type the same search criteria in the search box will find and list all the files between 1 GB and 4 GB in the current folder for you. And it performs pretty quick as well.
A couple of bonus tips
If you are interested in searching files by size in command prompt, check this one out.
Also, if you are also trying to find a folder size analysis tool, here are 5 Free Portable Folder Analysis Tools for Windows for you.
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