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arrange folders by size
Name: Scorpion_Vista Date: April 16, 2004 at 22:05:14 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 2400/512
Comment:
when i click on arrange icons by size in windows explorer it doesn't arrange the folders by size, only alphabetically, how do i arrange the folders by size?
Name: StuartS Date: April 16, 2004 at 22:32:36 Pacific
Reply:
Simple answer is you cannot. The over heads of calculating the space used by each folder would be to great. On a modern hard disk with hundreds of folders it would take ages to calculate the size of each folder.
Stuart
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Response Number 2
Name: CyberSlug Date: April 16, 2004 at 22:53:30 Pacific
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There are many freeware programs that can show you folder sizes. I really like Scanner, though it's probably not what you want.
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Response Number 3
Name: Scorpion_Vista Date: April 16, 2004 at 23:46:12 Pacific
Reply:
thx for the replies, i found a program called treesize that im using that does the job.
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