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mikejreading · 02-Jul-2009, 06:55 PM #1

Hi Guys,

I have a feeling I am being very dense here... but it's just been one of those days haha.

I'm trying to list every file on a Vista Ultimate 32 bit system, and order them by filesize.

Not fussed about how the output is shown, I can worry about that later.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Mike

NeonFx · 02-Jul-2009, 07:17 PM #2

If you do a search using the wild card you should get a list of every file on your computer.

Type in "search" into the search bar next to your start button. A dialog will come up where you can type in a search field. Just type in an asterix dot asterix: *.*

You can then order them by size by clicking on the size tab.

mikejreading · 02-Jul-2009, 07:26 PM #3

Hi,

Thanks, not quite the result I wanted.

That shows all the folders, which do not show a size in Explorer.

I literally just want to show a list of all files, irrelevant of location, sorted purely by their size... i.e.:

C:\Users\Mike\Documents database.mdb 250mb
C:\Users\Tom\Documents spreadsheet.xls 30mb
C:\Users\Public\Documents text.txt 25kb

Hope that shows what I mean.

Squashman · 02-Jul-2009, 10:13 PM #4

Not sure you really want to do that. You are talking about Tens of thousands of files on a computer system.

Do you just wanted it narrowed down to everyones Documents folder.

NeonFx · 02-Jul-2009, 10:39 PM #5

Oh I'm sorry. I use a program called "Everything" that incorporates itself with Vista. It does exactly what you are asking for. I just figured Vista would do the same.

http://www.voidtools.com/

mikejreading · 03-Jul-2009, 09:27 AM #6

Hi,

Squashman... I know it sounds crazy... but that was what I was going for.

neonfx ill give that a go.

Thanks for your help guys

Squashman · 03-Jul-2009, 09:42 AM #7

For what purpose?
If you want to see where all your disk space is being taken up and see what your largest files are then use JDiskReport.

mikejreading · 03-Jul-2009, 01:03 PM #8

Crazy as it sounds it's for a University project. Studying size of disk space usage and average file sizes for families pc's.

I only need all the files in size order to do other funky things with them... the middle file size average and so on..

fairnooks · 03-Jul-2009, 01:11 PM #9

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talking about Tens of thousands of files on a computer system

Only tens of thousands? That's a lighweight these days isn't it? All mine are in the hundreds of thousands (285,312, etc.) and two are in the low million + count. Or else the complete system scan numbers are goofy.

Squashman · 03-Jul-2009, 01:44 PM **#10**

Probably can write a simple batch file to do it and output it to a text file or a comma separated file at which point you could import it into excel.

Squashman · 03-Jul-2009, 06:15 PM **#11**

I totally forgot about Karen's Directory Printer. This should work perfectly for you.
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

mikejreading · 03-Jul-2009, 08:30 PM **#12**

That is what I'm looking for... almost exactly.

THANK YOU!

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