{"id":74961,"date":"2015-12-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/12\/20\/powertip-determine-size-of-folder-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:36","slug":"powertip-determine-size-of-folder-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-determine-size-of-folder-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Determine Size of Folder with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to determine the size of a folder.<\/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 easily get the size of a folder structure?<\/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 a combination of&nbsp;<b>Get-Childitem<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>Measure-Object<\/b>. For example, to see the size of the C:\\Foo folder <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;structure in Windows PowerShell 5.0 or 4.0, use:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Get-Childitem C:\\Foo &ndash;file &ndash;recurse | Measure-Object &ndash;property Length -sum<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/dr_scripto-102x150.gif\" alt=\" \"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to determine the size of a folder. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily get the size of a folder structure? &nbsp;Use a combination of&nbsp;Get-Childitem&nbsp;and&nbsp;Measure-Object. For example, to see the size of the C:\\Foo folder &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;structure in Windows PowerShell 5.0 or 4.0, use: Get-Childitem C:\\Foo [&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":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-74961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to determine the size of a folder. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily get the size of a folder structure? &nbsp;Use a combination of&nbsp;Get-Childitem&nbsp;and&nbsp;Measure-Object. For example, to see the size of the C:\\Foo folder &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;structure in Windows PowerShell 5.0 or 4.0, use: Get-Childitem C:\\Foo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74961","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=74961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74961\/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=74961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}