“What do you mean there’s insufficient space on my multi-terabyte disk?” If you’ve ever shouted that at your computer, first, switch to decaf; and second ...

To organize files and folders on your disk, you may choose to have the Finder calculate the size of folders on your disk. This can be done by either getting info on a particular folder, or by going to ...

On Tuesday we covered an issue where the Panther Finder does not accurately update folder sizes when subfolders are modified. This bug occurs whether viewing the folder size in a Finder window (with ...

Windows 11 has been rolled out to everyone, and it has surprised me, to say the least. I am a big fan of the updated, more minimalistic design. The File Explorer in Windows 11 has received a revamp – ...

When browsing through your folder structure on your Windows system drive, you may have wondered why your System32 folder is too big on your Windows 11/10 computer. If you have this question, then this ...

While the detailed view in Windows Explorer can display file size and creation date and time, it cannot display folder size. I learned that by combining the Windows custom app 'Windhawk' and the fast ...

Microsoft is working on a new built-in command-line 'Disk Usage' utility that reports how much disk space a folder uses. Over time it is common to run out of storage and not know what programs or ...

Hi, I need to check a bunch of folder sizes, but I hate right clicking each one and checking properties. Can you list all the folders with sizes in a dir command? What are the switches? Thanx.

I'm trying to calculate the size of a VMware VM on our NetApp SAN. A simple "du -sh ..." in ESXi suffices for the base folder. However, the NetApp volume on which it's hosted contains a number of ...