Get the size of folder contents?

[element78]

Is there a way to do it without looping through all the files in the folder and checking individual file sizes?

That method would be sufficent I suppose, but very slow for what I need to do.

Any ideas on how this could be done in a different manner?


ex: finding the total size of the program files folder and all of it's contents


Thanks

[TJ_Tigger]

Everything in Program Files and all subdirectories? Are you MAD? Do you want just the size of the directory or the size of the directory and a listbox that contains a list of all the files from all directories in Program Files?

[element78]

LOL, no I'm not mad


Program Files was just an example. Maybe I wasn't clear enough.. what I'm trying to do is (example):

Listbox:
C:\Program Files (1504 mb)
C:\Games (3440 mb)
C:\Documents And Settings (250 mb)


see what I'm saying? Just the absolute size of each folder I need to have searched.

It's a little difficult to explain but i hope i did it better than before

[Worm]

Merry Christmas!

[Worm]

I guess it helps if you actually include the attachment

[Worm]

If you want an hourglass to show while the DLL
gets the size, use this one instead of the one in
the apz.

[TJ_Tigger]

beat out again :(

Here I was trying to do it all within AMS5 . . . then again I don't know how to program .dlls so how else am I going to do it. Here is what I came up with.

folder = Dialog.FolderBrowse("Please Select a Folder to get its current size", _DesktopFolder);
folders = Folder.Find(folder, "*", true, nil);
filesall = {};
for fi,fv in folders do
files = File.Find(fv, "*", true, true, nil);
for filesi,filesv in files do
Table.Insert(filesall, Table.Count(filesall)+1, filesv);
end
end
fsize = 0;
for i,d in filesall do
size = File.GetSize(filesall[i]);
fsize = fsize + size;
end
Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph1", "Your directory " .. folder .. " is " .. fsize .. " bytes in size.");

[Worm]

Too cool Tig!

I was going to try it in AMS, but didn't have the guts to try it. I'm not sure how well AMS would handle recursion to do sub-folders, but it seems it would work. I'd be interested in seeing the speed comparisons from LUA scripting to a DLLs speed. So, if you're bored ...

I know from the little bit of testing I've done, the LUA script is rock solid and speedy.

[JimS]

Cool! Another free DLL from Worm. You are the greatest, thanks.
Is there any chance that you could share the proper syntax for the calls in a text file so that those of us still using AMS4 could figure out how to use this DLL? You give so much, I’m sorry to ask for more, but it’s a nifty DLL, and I’d like a chance to use it too.

Thanks again Worm.

[TJ_Tigger]

Here is some updated code. I ran into a couple of problems where I would get nil values in a table when I did the search. I have added a couple additional lines to detect this event and skip the section if detected.

Worm, I will try some speed tests. With AMS it seems to be fairly speedy, but as the number of folders and files increase it starts to slow down. If you have suggestions on how to tighten up the code, let me know. I am always looking for ways to better my code.

Here is the new code, just cut and paste into the button.

folder = Dialog.FolderBrowse("Please Select a Folder to get its current size", _DesktopFolder);
StatusDlg.Show(MB_ICONNONE, false);
if (folder ~= nil) and (folder ~= "CANCEL") then
	folders = Folder.Find(folder, "*", true, nil);
	if (folders ~= nil) then
		filesall = {};
		for fi,fv in folders do
			files = File.Find(fv, "*", true, true, nil);
			if (files ~= nil) then
			 	for filesi,filesv in files do
					Table.Insert(filesall, Table.Count(filesall)+1, filesv);
				end
			end
		end
		fsize = 0;
		for i,d in filesall do
			size = File.GetSize(filesall[i]);
			fsize = fsize + size;
		end
		Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph1", "Your directory " .. folder .. " is " .. fsize .. " bytes in size.");
		StatusDlg.Hide();
	end
end

[element78]

Wow, thanks guys! Very helpful, as always

Ill try it out and let you know!

[element78]

TJ: Your method seemed to work pretty well, but one problem.. the size returns completely inaccurate.. Screenshot attached :(



Worm: I like the DLL, a lot. Although (a huge error on my part), the searching is not supposed to search in a whole tree, just the specified folder. (e.g. if theres 70 folders inside c:\winnt and 200 files, it would only return the size of the combined 200 files). I must have been sleeping when i described my question, very sorry!

[element78]

Ahhh TJ, i figured out what was wrong.. had to change recurse to false for the file search, it was doubling the search.

[TJ_Tigger]

I realized that after playing with the file size stuff that I was omitting the files in the selected folder. I got all the folders under the selected but forgot the selected one. D'oh.

Here it is for all to test. I have included Worms dll in here as well. I figured out how to make my code smaller. I don't know what I was thinking but it works well now with much smaller code.

tigg

[JimS]

Oops, I should have spent a little more time trying before I asked. With a little experimentation, I was able to figure out the function name and proper parameters for Worm's newest DLL. Thanks for the new tool Worm!