硬盘驱动器上的磁盘空间(disk space)不足？需要弄清楚哪些文件夹占用的空间最多？以前，我写过一个有用的程序，叫做TreeSize，你可以用它来快速找到驱动器上最大的目录。但是，如果您在Windows 资源管理器(Windows Explorer)中浏览时可以简单地看到文件夹的大小，那就太好了。相反，资源管理器界面(Explorer interface)中仅显示文件的大小。
以下是在“详细信息(Details)”视图中正常的Windows 资源管理器(Windows Explorer)界面的样子：
因此，如果您想弄清楚哪些文件夹占用了大量空间，您必须手动右键单击每个文件夹并选择Properties。这简直是乏味和烦人的！为什么不简单地让Windows 资源管理器(Windows Explorer)计算文件夹大小并为您显示它们？
文件夹大小(Folder Size)(Folder Size)就是为我们做的。文件夹大小(Folder Size)是一个免费的Windows 实用程序(Windows utility)，它在Windows XP的(Windows XP)Windows 资源管理器中的“(Windows Explorer)详细信息”视图(Details view)中添加了一个新列。新列不仅显示文件的大小，还显示文件夹的大小。它还跟踪您查看的文件夹并在后台扫描它们，以便您可以查看文件夹中所有文件的完整大小。
在Windows Vista、Windows 7和Windows 8中，程序无法编辑资源管理器界面，因此它会在资源管理器(explorer interface)屏幕(explorer screen)右侧加载一个浮动窗口。
以下是它的几个主要特点：
截至目前，该软件适用于Windows 2000和Windows XP，因此该列直接显示在Explorer中。在Windows Vista和更高版本中，将改为显示弹出窗口。弹出窗口(popup window)不是最好的解决方案，一段时间后它会变得有点烦人。值得庆幸的是，当您关闭Explorer时它会关闭。
开发人员意识到了这个烦人的问题，还制作了一个小任务栏图标(taskbar icon)，这样您就可以在不需要时关闭弹出窗口(popup window)，并在想要查看文件夹大小时只需单击任务栏图标即可。(taskbar icon)几分钟后，程序扫描了我磁盘上的所有文件夹，我可以立即看到文件夹的大小。
如果您不希望在打开Explorer实例时出现弹出窗口(popup window)，只需右键单击任务栏图标(taskbar icon)并取消选中Show Folder Size popups。这样，您就可以在后台运行，只要您想查看文件夹大小，只需单击任务栏中的图标即可打开窗口。
该软件还支持 64 位机器，所以这应该会让一些人高兴。开发人员希望在下一个版本中修复该软件的一些已知问题，其中包括：
1、有时会因为系统中使用了硬链接，导致windows目录(Windows directory)的大小比实际大小大。
2.后台服务(background service)有时会在某些机器上遇到权限问题。
3. Windows Vista及更高版本的后台扫描(background scanning)尚未完全优化。
4.有时弹出窗口会覆盖Windows资源管理器界面(Windows Explorer interface)上的关闭按钮。
在Windows 7(Windows 7)中运行程序时，我没有遇到任何这些问题，但您应该注意它们，因为它们可能会导致问题。总的来说，这是一个很好的程序，但我希望开发人员能够破解Windows 7/8以使大小显示为列而不是单独的窗口。尽管如此，它仍然很接近，并且具有隐藏选项以及它与Explorer(Explorer)关闭的事实，它仍然是我会使用的实用程序。享受！
How to View Folder Size in Explorer
Running out of disk space on your hard drive? Need to figure out which folders are taking up the most space? Previously, І had written about a useful program callеd TreeSize that you can use to quickly find the largest directories on a drive. However, it would be really nice if you could simply see the size of a folder while browsing in Windows Explorer. Instead, only the size of files are shown in the Explorer interface.
Here’s what the normal Windows Explorer interface looks like when in Details view:
So if you want to figure out which folders are taking up a lot of space, you have to manually right-click on each one and choose Properties. That’s just plain tedious and annoying! Why not simply have Windows Explorer calculate the folder sizes and display them for you?
Folder Size does just that for us. Folder Size is a freeware Windows utility that adds a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer for Windows XP. The new column not only shows the size of files, but also shows the size of folders. It also keeps track of which folders you view and scans them in the background so that you can see the complete size of all files within the folder.
In Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, the program cannot edit the explorer interface, so it instead loads up a floating windows to the right of the explorer screen.
Here are a couple of its major features:
As of right now, the software works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP so that the column is displayed directly within Explorer. In Windows Vista and higher, the pop up window will display instead. The popup window is not the greatest solution and it can become a little annoying after a while. Thankfully, it does close when you close Explorer.
The developer realized this annoying issue and also made a small taskbar icon so that you can close the popup window when you don’t need it and simply click on the taskbar icon whenever you want to see folder sizes. After a few minutes, the program had scanned all the folders on my disk and I was able to instantly see the folder sizes.
If you don’t want the popup window to appear at all when you open an instance of Explorer, just right-click on the taskbar icon and uncheck the Show Folder Size popups. This way, you can just let in run in the background and whenever you want to see folder sizes, just single click on the icon in the taskbar to open the window.
The software also supports 64-bit machines, so that should make some people happy. There are some known issues with the software that the developer hopes to fix in the next version and they include:
1. Sometimes the size of the Windows directory will be reported larger than the actual size because of the use of hard links in the system.
2. The background service can sometimes run into permissions issues on certain machines.
3. The background scanning in Windows Vista and higher is not optimized fully as of yet.
4. Sometimes the pop up covers the close button on the Windows Explorer interface.
I didn’t run into any of these issues while running the program in Windows 7, but you should be aware of them as they might cause problems. Overall, it’s a good program, but I wish the developer was able to hack Windows 7/8 to get the size to show up as a column rather than in a separate window. Still, it’s close and with the hiding options and the fact that it closes with Explorer, it’s still a utility I would use. Enjoy!
