Arranging by folder size in Explorer?

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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.
 
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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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
 
PRR said:
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.
Click to expand...

Nothing's impossible. It's even possible to have your willie permanently
stuck up your ass!!!
 
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.
 
Unfortunately, you do have to go through your instructions for every
folder you want to view the details with [...]
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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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