Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread cynicalgeek
Beggars can't be choosers. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:42 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: We use folder redirection here, and I’m trying to get a handle on which users have the most stuff. So we have something like: x:\path\user1

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Michael White
Omni DiskSweeper does an excellent job for this type of work. http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/ Point it to the drive you want to size and it will scan through directories to get size information. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:42 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us

RE: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread John Cook
That's apparently a Mac only application.. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 -Original Message- From: Michael White

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Kurt Buff
+1 Also, if you can find it, diruse.exe from one of the older RKs is still useful. Kurt On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:56, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Windirstat.   Free and no install required. From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011

RE: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Michael B. Smith
I wrote this for someone here (well, on some mailing list, I think it was this one) a couple months ago, but I use it all the time now. -get-foldersize.ps1- function Get-FolderSize( $path = $home ) { $code = { ('{0:0.0} MB' -f ($this/1MB)) } Get-ChildItem -Path $Path |

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Nice, MBS * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I wrote this for someone here (well, on some mailing list, I think it was this one) a couple

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Steve Kradel
Another vote here for Treesize. Despite how much as I enjoy writing code, or using CLI tools like 'du', Treesize is great. http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml --Steve On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Treesize? Sent from my SR-71

RE: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread John Hornbuckle
Can you tell a PS novice how to get this to sort by size? That would make it perfect. John From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes I wrote this for someone

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Rankin, James R
Only drawback is the free version don't do network drives. I'm sold on it, but from now on I am using MBS' PS script to look like a scripting whiz :-) Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -Original Message- From: Steve Kradel skra...@zetetic.net Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:24:49 To: NT System

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Steven Peck
$a = get-foldersize $a | get-member TypeName: Selected.System.Int32 NameMemberType Definition -- -- Equals Method bool Equals(System.Object obj) GetHashCode Method int GetHashCode() GetType Method type GetType() ToString

RE: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Michael B. Smith
Steven's solution is arguably better than mine. :) -get-foldersize.ps1- Param( [string]$path = $home, [switch]$sortBySize ) function Get-FolderSize( $path ) { $code = { ('{0:0.0} MB' -f ($this/1MB)) } Get-ChildItem -Path $Path | Where-Object {

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Cameron
+1 for windirstat (does do network drives). On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: $a = get-foldersize $a | get-member TypeName: Selected.System.Int32 NameMemberType Definition -- -- Equals Method bool

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Steven Peck
Well, mine was the seriously lazy use what's there method. It's not like I created anything, just discovered and leveraged what was there :) On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Steven’s solution is arguably better than mine. J ** **

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Cynicalgeek
Just use WinDirStat and be done with it, unless you're trying to script this. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Well, mine was the seriously lazy use what's there method. It's not like I created anything, just discovered and leveraged what was there :)

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Windirstat.   Free and no install required. +1. For visualizing what's using space, it can't be beat. It also tends to things like folder full of way too many itty bitty files and that guy has way too many PowerPoint files

Re: Easy Way to View and Sort By Folder Sizes

2011-11-10 Thread Steven Peck
For 2 AM calls, I use scanner.exe as it's just an executable. http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ As to using a utility vs adding to your scripting library, it depends on your goal. Adding to your scripting library is useful in technique and flexibility. There is nothing wrong with