Arranging by folder size in Explorer?

[PRR]

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.

 

[John Wunderlich]

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

 

[choro]

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!!!

 

[PRR]

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.

 

[John Wunderlich]

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