Windows 10: FOLDER SIZE NOT CORRECT AND COPYING IS VERY SLOW EVEN GOING TO ZERO

DISAPPOINTED THAT MICROSOFT HAS DONE NOTHING TO FIX 2 COMMON PROBLEMS. IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO USE APPLE THIS IS HOW TO DO IT. I THOUGHT MY EXTERNAL DRIVE WAS BAD BUT AFTER SEEING THE SHEER NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS I REALIZED THAT THE PROBLEM WAS WITH MICROSOFT. WHY SHOULD I NEED TO LOAD OUTSIDE PROGRAMS TO FIX COMMON PROBLEMS. GET YOUR **** TOGETHER AND CORRECT THESE ERRORS. I'LL BET APPLE DOESN'T LET THIS KIND **** GO UNCORRECTED.

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How to zero size all files in a folder

It's probably more elegant to do it in powershell, in a batch file you don't have the commands available that can zero the length of an existing file, or create a new file. It's a bit of a kludge, but it can be done.

DIR can make a list of the filenames, and a FOR loop can work through that list. What you can do is pipe the output of a command that has no output text to a file (so you are making a zero length file, just as you can in Notepad). If that happens to be an existing file it will overwrite it with a new zero length file of the same name. There are very few commands that can be tricked into outputting nothing, but I have found one that will do the job.

This, copied and pasted into a batch file called ZERO.BAT will first list all the files in the current folder to a file called files.txt, then overwrite each of them with a zero length file of the same name. The 'dir /b *.xxx' command was chosen for this as it will produce no output (unless of course you actually do have files with the .xxx extension). It's a one-shot suicidal batch file, as it will in the process zero itself!

Code:

Code:

@dir /b *.* > files.txt @for /f "delims=" %%n in (files.txt) do @dir /b *.xxx>"%%n"

The result is....





As I said, it's a kludge, it's messy because the 'dir /b *.xxx' echos a 'file not found' to the screen, and it leaves behind the files.txt and zero.bat files - but it does work.

 

Directory Size Utility

First of all nice utility, Mindweaver!
Second of all, it's so nice to see that this section ain't dead.

I have a few questions/suggestions, maybe you'd want to see ...

• maybe you rename Get Folder button caption to something more intuitive? Add Folder, Get Folder Size, Check Folder Size or something like that?
  
• Could you add subfolder files to the right pane? (it can be a tickbox with include sub dirs)
  
• maybe you also add export list to excel?
  
• there's delete file button maybe you add delete folder button too?
  
• and finally maybe you can add UP button for directories?

 

Change in folder size after enabling Bitlocker

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

We understand you concern related to the size of the folder displayed. Try these steps to narrow down the issue:

1. Disable bitlocker
   and then check the folder size.
2. We would also suggest you to open the folder and select all files and see the size of the contents.

Let us know if the size of the contents matches the folder size. If you see a difference, then the folder might be showing incorrect size.

Kindly reply us with the requested information to assist you better.



Awaiting for your response.



Amit Sunar

Microsoft Community – Moderator