Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

R Jason Morgan — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:15:18 GMT

I wish there was a better way to get folder sizing, the persistent issues with access denied are really ticking me off. It's not an issue with your script as much as it's an issue with using get-childitem to enumerate the contents of a folder and then calculating length.

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

Richie — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:07:36 GMT

Is there a way to add additional objects from the Get-ChildItem cmdlet in the final output? I would like to include "select-object FullName,CreationTime,LastAccessTime,LastWriteTime" for each directory as well as the Size.

Thanks

Richie T.

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

Path truncated — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:56:19 GMT

Thanks but i can only get 39 characters for the path printed ?

I expanded the console width no change. I see no "40" size wise in the code. A mystery.

How can i get a much bigger path ?

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

IamMred — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:31:19 GMT

@DarkGnome I do not think it would be an easy tweak. The reason is that I do not see anywhere to get directory depth. I would therefore be reduced to parsing the path -- not very accurate -- or trying to count how many directories deep you go --- or doing recursion and setting the number of recursions.

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

DarkGnome — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:49:18 GMT

Love this script, but am wondering about a minor tweak: To get it to list only one-to-two levels deep.

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

Bill Stewart — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:46:25 GMT

@Brad - yes; just pipe the script's output to Export-CSV.

@Cab - the script outputs objects and the default formatter is outputting each object. You can pipe to Format-List or Export-CSV to see all of the data.

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

Cab — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:01:37 GMT

Hey,

Thank you very much for taking the time to create this, it has been very helpful!

I just have one issue, which might not be applicable for here but I am running your script from SQL Server Management studion 2008 and when I get the output of the file it truncates the file path if it is longer than 28 characters. I have set my fields in sql to be an nvarchar(2000) but I do not see how it is truncating it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Craig

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

Brad — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:52:55 GMT

Is there a way the output from this script could be output into a csv file?

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

Santosh Bhandarkar — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:14:40 GMT

Useful

re: Getting Directory Sizes in PowerShell

jrv — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:36:41 GMT

@Paolo - you can't.

On Vista bnad later many folders are not real. They are placeholders for the system to use th redirect to the new location. You must access the driectories by accessing teh 'special folders' variables of teh shell. It is the only way to know where the real drirectory is.

blogs.technet.com/.../hey-scripting-guy-how-can-query-the-contents-of-a-special-folder-on-a-windows-7-computer.aspx

# Get the dektop folder path

[environment]::GetFolderPath('desktop')

# List all special folder names

[enum]::GetNames([System.Environment+SpecialFolder])

You cannot just list and accesss all folders that you find.