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What is the fastest way to calculate a Windows folders size?

I need to calculate the size of hundreds of folders, some will be 10MB some maybe 10GB, I need a super fast way of getting the size of each folder using C#.

My end result will hopefully be:

Folder1 10.5GB

Folder2 230MB

Folder3 1.2GB

...

Solution

  • There is no simple way to do this in .Net; you will have to loop through every file and subdir. See the examples here to see how it's done.