Total file size for search results.

[Rebecca]

I need to find the total file size for several thousand files resulting from
a WinXP search.

Selecting the files and checking Properties just shows a 0 file size total.
The Details pane on the left panel also doesn't list file size, just total
number of files.

I can't copy the files to another folder either, due to permissions.

Help! Thanks.

Rebecca

 

[Jose]

I need to find the total file size for several thousand files resulting from
a WinXP search.

Selecting the files and checking Properties just shows a 0 file size total.  
The Details pane on the left panel also doesn't list file size, just total
number of files.

I can't copy the files to another folder either, due to permissions.

Help!  Thanks.

Rebecca

What were the criteria for your Windows search? How exaclty did you
invoke this search? What did you enter in the search boxes to get the
results you have so far?

Do these thousands of files have anything in common by name, extension
or location?

Maybe they are all MS Word documents (.doc files), or Excel
spreadhseets (.xls files), pictures (.jpg files) or are they all in
some particular folder(s) on a certain disk drive(s).

You don't have to be too secret - nobody can see your files, but
additional details would result in more satisfactory guidance.

Jose

 

[Big_Al]

Rebecca said this on 5/19/2009 2:40 PM:

I need to find the total file size for several thousand files resulting from
a WinXP search.

Selecting the files and checking Properties just shows a 0 file size total.
The Details pane on the left panel also doesn't list file size, just total
number of files.

I can't copy the files to another folder either, due to permissions.

Help! Thanks.

Rebecca

If you get no other solution, if you have space, I'd make a folder on my
desktop and simply CTRL+A / CTRL+C (copy) them and then paste them into
the new folder. Then you can check the size of the folder.

 

[Rebecca]

Thanks for the answers so far but...

a.) It doesn't matter what or how I searched (I just used the default
Windows search) - the results are all the same file type, but are in
different folders. And...

b.) As stated in the original post, I can't copy and paste them into
another folder because of permission errors.

 

[Gerry]

Rebecca

Please provide the precise words you see when the system reports
"permission errors",


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Rebecca]

"Access denied"

Rebecca

Please provide the precise words you see when the system reports
"permission errors",


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Gerry]

Rebecca

Are you logged on as a user woth full Administrators right or as a
limited user? Select Start, Control Panel, User Account. You will see
existing Users listed under "Or Pick an Account to change". If your log
on name has the words "Computer Administrator" under the name you have
jumped that hurdle.

Permission issues often arise with files created on another computer or
by another user. Are there files in the Search Results fitting that
description? If yes you need to take ownership of the files.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Rebecca]

ARGH!!! All of you are missing the point! The point is not that I don't
have permission to view or copy the files. The point is - how do I get to
see the total size of a group of more than 100 files? (100 seeming to be
Windows limit of how many files it can calculate the total for at one time.)

The permissions is coming into play ONLY for the reason that I can't copy
the files into another folder to check the total file size that way. Even if
I had full permission rights to all files, that *still* wouldn't solve the
problem because we are talking about literally thousands of files here and I
cannot practically go to each one and take ownership of it. That would take
years!

Thanks.

 

[JS]

Kelly's Korner, Line #2, Left column
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Can't say if it will fix your specific problem but its
worth a try.