Mac OS X only: Freeware app WhatSize shows you exactly how much space files and folders are taking up on your Mac. Similar to the "Details" view in Windows, WhatSize offers a file size column in a ...

While the detailed view in Windows Explorer can display file size and creation date and time, it cannot display folder size. I learned that by combining the Windows custom app 'Windhawk' and the fast ...

Windows File Explorer offers various tools to help users organize their files and folders, but sorting folders by size can be particularly challenging due to the limitations of the native File ...

Windows 11 has been rolled out to everyone, and it has surprised me, to say the least. I am a big fan of the updated, more minimalistic design. The File Explorer in Windows 11 has received a revamp – ...

Disk Inventory X takes a unique approach to helping you analyze your disk space usage by visualizing it as a graphical chart. You can see a breakdown of which types of files are hogging the most space ...

I'm trying to calculate the size of a VMware VM on our NetApp SAN. A simple "du -sh ..." in ESXi suffices for the base folder. However, the NetApp volume on which it's hosted contains a number of ...

How much space do duplicate files take up on your iPad? In theory, they use no extra storage. Thanks to the design of the Apple File System (APFS) used on iOS and macOS, duplicating a file doesn’t ...

On Tuesday we covered an issue where the Panther Finder does not accurately update folder sizes when subfolders are modified. This bug occurs whether viewing the folder size in a Finder window (with ...

I need to harvest the profile size for each of my users, these profiles are only stored locally. I prefer and am more (*cough*) competent in Powershell, but I should have thought of deploying it ...

We continue to cover an issue where the Panther Finder does not accurately update folder sizes when subfolders are modified. This bug occurs whether viewing the folder size in a Finder window (with ...