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From: PRR on 12 Apr 2010 23:26
Is it possible to arrange the folders in My Documents folder, by size?
Every time I click on that view option, the various documents inside
My Documents get re-arranged, but teh folders themselves stay arranged
alphabetically.
From: John Wunderlich on 13 Apr 2010 01:48
PRR <psaulm119(a)aim.com> wrote in
news:e5071f73-957b-4e7d-a95b-d3e17d6c06b6(a)5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:

> Is it possible to arrange the folders in My Documents folder, by
> size? Every time I click on that view option, the various
> documents inside My Documents get re-arranged, but teh folders
> themselves stay arranged alphabetically.
>

Yes. It is possible.

Download/Install freeware "FolderSize" from Sourceforge:

<http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/>

Then double-click on any folder then:
View -> Details
View -> Choose Details -> Folder Size

Then simply click on the "Folder Size" column header to sort by
Folder Size.

HTH,
John
From: PRR on 16 Apr 2010 10:21
Thanks. that helped me free up several gigs on my ever-shrinking
documents partition.

Unfortunately, you do have to go through your instructions for every
folder you want to view the details with, but like I said, I found a
few gigs that I didn't realize were there (including a Win 7 RC
installation file that I had forgotten about) so I do appreciate it.

Hopefully this is something that Win 7 if not Vista can do on its own.
The threads I found before posting said something about how awkward it
would be to constantly have to recalculate the size of folders. Even
if this wasn't a "live" feature, I still can't help but think that
this is something Explorer should have been doing long ago.


On Apr 12, 10:48 pm, John Wunderlich <jwunderl...(a)lycos.com> wrote:
> PRR <psaulm...(a)aim.com> wrote innews:e5071f73-957b-4e7d-a95b-d3e17d6c06b6(a)5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Is it possible to arrange the folders in My Documents folder, by
> > size? Every time I click on that view option, the various
> > documents inside My Documents get re-arranged, but teh folders
> > themselves stay arranged alphabetically.
>
> Yes. It is possible.
>
> Download/Install freeware "FolderSize" from Sourceforge:
>
>   <http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/>
>
> Then double-click on any folder then:
>   View -> Details
>   View -> Choose Details -> Folder Size
>
> Then simply click on the "Folder Size" column header to sort by
> Folder Size.
>
> HTH,
>   John

From: John Wunderlich on 16 Apr 2010 15:18
PRR <psaulm119(a)aim.com> wrote in news:1b54eef2-2e02-4208-a74b-
7892e652547d(a)r18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com:

> Unfortunately, you do have to go through your instructions for every
> folder you want to view the details with [...]

Once you get one folder set up that way, then do:
Tools->Folder Options->View->Apply to all Folders

(assuming you really want that).

-- John
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