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PRR
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      13th Apr 2010
Is it possible to arrange the folders in My Documents folder, by size?
Every time I click on that view option, the various documents inside
My Documents get re-arranged, but teh folders themselves stay arranged
alphabetically.
 
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John Wunderlich
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      13th Apr 2010
PRR <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Is it possible to arrange the folders in My Documents folder, by
> size? Every time I click on that view option, the various
> documents inside My Documents get re-arranged, but teh folders
> themselves stay arranged alphabetically.
>


Yes. It is possible.

Download/Install freeware "FolderSize" from Sourceforge:

<http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/>

Then double-click on any folder then:
View -> Details
View -> Choose Details -> Folder Size

Then simply click on the "Folder Size" column header to sort by
Folder Size.

HTH,
John
 
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      13th Apr 2010
PRR wrote:
> Is it possible to arrange the folders in My Documents folder, by size?
> Every time I click on that view option, the various documents inside
> My Documents get re-arranged, but teh folders themselves stay arranged
> alphabetically.


Nothing's impossible. It's even possible to have your willie permanently
stuck up your ass!!!
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PRR
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      16th Apr 2010
Thanks. that helped me free up several gigs on my ever-shrinking
documents partition.

Unfortunately, you do have to go through your instructions for every
folder you want to view the details with, but like I said, I found a
few gigs that I didn't realize were there (including a Win 7 RC
installation file that I had forgotten about) so I do appreciate it.

Hopefully this is something that Win 7 if not Vista can do on its own.
The threads I found before posting said something about how awkward it
would be to constantly have to recalculate the size of folders. Even
if this wasn't a "live" feature, I still can't help but think that
this is something Explorer should have been doing long ago.


On Apr 12, 10:48*pm, John Wunderlich <jwunderl...@lycos.com> wrote:
> PRR <psaulm...@aim.com> wrote innews:e5071f73-957b-4e7d-a95b-(E-Mail Removed):
>
> > Is it possible to arrange the folders in My Documents folder, by
> > size? Every time I click on that view option, the various
> > documents inside My Documents get re-arranged, but teh folders
> > themselves stay arranged alphabetically.

>
> Yes. It is possible.
>
> Download/Install freeware "FolderSize" from Sourceforge:
>
> * <http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/>
>
> Then double-click on any folder then:
> * View -> Details
> * View -> Choose Details -> Folder Size
>
> Then simply click on the "Folder Size" column header to sort by
> Folder Size.
>
> HTH,
> * John


 
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John Wunderlich
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      16th Apr 2010
PRR <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:1b54eef2-2e02-4208-a74b-
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> Unfortunately, you do have to go through your instructions for every
> folder you want to view the details with [...]


Once you get one folder set up that way, then do:
Tools->Folder Options->View->Apply to all Folders

(assuming you really want that).

-- John
 
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