KB ID 0001660

Problem

Right clicking a folder and selecting properties is usually how you would see how large a folder is. Which is great, but if your folder size is HUGE (i.e. many terabytes) then this takes ages!

Solution

If you use PowerShell you can get the figure considerably quicker! Below I want to ge the size of E:\Shared;

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In MegaBytes;
"{0:N2}" -f ((Get-ChildItem -path E:\Shared -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum ).sum /1MB) + " MB"

In GigaBytes;
"{0:N2}" -f ((Get-ChildItem -path E:\Shared -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum ).sum /1GB) + " GB"

In TeraBytes;
"{0:N2}" -f ((Get-ChildItem -path E:\Shared -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum ).sum /1TB) + " TB"

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You can even save this as a ‘function’ then call it whenever you wish.

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function Get-FolderSize
{
 param([string]$pth)
 "{0:N2}" -f ((gci -path $pth -recurse | measure-object -property length -sum).sum /1GB) + " GB"
}

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