Size of files ?

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I know there are utilities to show the size of directories but I was
wondering whether there is anything to show the total size of ALL
the jpegs in a directory, all the gifs, all the txt files etc.

Anyone ?

Regards, John.
 
John said:
I know there are utilities to show the size of directories but I was
wondering whether there is anything to show the total size of ALL
the jpegs in a directory, all the gifs, all the txt files etc.
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You do not need any additional software, the command prompt can do this.
Just change into the directory you want to see and enter: "dir -b
*.txt". If you want to see also subdirectories, type: "dir -b -s *.txt"
Replace *.txt by whatever extension you need. (If you have a non English
Windows version, you might need to replace the "-b -s" by "/b /s")

Or you can use the Windows Explorer. Just "sort by type", select the
desired extensions and then either look in the tiny bar at the bottom
(status bar?) or select the context menu and select the file
characteristics.

bye,

Onno
 
John Fitzsimons said:
I know there are utilities to show the size of directories but I was
wondering whether there is anything to show the total size of ALL
the jpegs in a directory, all the gifs, all the txt files etc.

Anyone ?

Regards, John.
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Hi John, I wrote a program last year for determining whether one or
more files can fit on specified disk drive. You can use this program
to "select" a number of files (not necessarily in the same directory), and
get a detailed size report. CanFit, as it's called, hasn't been available
at any freeware site ever, and hasn't been available for download at my own
site since last year.

http://www.bee.net/prime-time/canfit.exe

dos-man
 
Dos-Man said:
Hi John, I wrote a program last year for determining whether one or
more files can fit on specified disk drive. You can use this program
to "select" a number of files (not necessarily in the same directory), and
get a detailed size report. CanFit, as it's called, hasn't been available
at any freeware site ever, and hasn't been available for download at my own
site since last year.

http://www.bee.net/prime-time/canfit.exe

dos-man
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Or you could use this one. Available on my site for the past two years:

FillCD: If you're copying files from your computer to a CD-R, I suppose you
could just keep adding 'em until the CD can't take anymore. Or, you could
put that ol' brain to rest and try this program. It'll take a list of files
and tell you which ones will fit snuggly onto your CD. This will ensure
that you take full advantage of the CD's capacity. Your settings will be
saved for the next burning session, too. "Just specify the size to use and
how close to 100% you want to fill [the CD]."
http://civic.napalm.net/napalm/FillCD20b.exe ~1Mb

Enjoy!

SOS

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Hi John, I wrote a program last year for determining whether one or
more files can fit on specified disk drive. You can use this program
to "select" a number of files (not necessarily in the same directory), and
get a detailed size report.
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Hope you don't mean file by file ? I want the *total* figure for each
*file type*.
CanFit, as it's called, hasn't been available
at any freeware site ever, and hasn't been available for download at my own
site since last year.

dos-man
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Thanks. Look forward to checking it out. :-)

Regards, John.
 
John Fitzsimons wrote:
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You do not need any additional software,
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My preference is to stay in windows, simply click a button for "total
size of all jpegs" etc. and to do all filetypes at once. Thanks for
the suggestions however. :-)

Regards, John.
 
John said:
I know there are utilities to show the size of directories but I was
wondering whether there is anything to show the total size of ALL
the jpegs in a directory, all the gifs, all the txt files etc.
Click to expand...

If you install PropertiesPlus
(http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cool/kish/pplusmain.htm), you can right-click a
directory then apply a filemask to find this information. You can also
nominate to include subdirectories or not.
 
Or you could use this one. Available on my site for the past two years:
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FillCD:
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Thanks, but how would that program tell me eg. the total size of all
my combined jpeg files in a folder ?

My query has nothing to do with filling CDs.

Regards, John.
 
John said:
I know there are utilities to show the size of directories but I was
wondering whether there is anything to show the total size of ALL
the jpegs in a directory, all the gifs, all the txt files etc.
Click to expand...

A tool called Zdu lets you do this, but *only* recursively.
This will show you the total size and the total number of all the gifs,
all the txt files etc. in a folder *AND* its subfolders.

Its GUI version (v 2.4.12) optionally integrates with Explorer:
Right-click a folder
Click : Zdu: diskusage
Hit the F10 key (for "Usage by Extension")

It comes with a more powerful console version.
The newest console version (v 2.4.15) is a separate download.
But even that newest console version does not let you output the
"Usage by Extension" of a folder *without* its subfolders.

http://haywire.fatalunity.com/HSw/
 
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