{"id":1546,"date":"2014-04-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/04\/22\/powertip-find-largest-file-in-user-profile-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-04-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-largest-file-in-user-profile-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-largest-file-in-user-profile-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Largest File in User Profile with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to find the largest file in your user profile.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the largest file in my user profile?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet (dir is an alias for the Get-ChildItem), do a recursive search <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of your user profile directory, then sort the files by size and select the last file:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">dir $env:USERPROFILE -Recurse -File | sort length | select -last 1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the largest file in your user profile. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the largest file in my user profile? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet (dir is an alias for the Get-ChildItem), do a recursive search &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of your user profile directory, then sort the files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the largest file in your user profile. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the largest file in my user profile? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet (dir is an alias for the Get-ChildItem), do a recursive search &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; of your user profile directory, then sort the files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}