The chart images can be exported to an external file for further analysis (JPEG). In addition, you can view a pie chart, bar chart and animated chart of the items requiring the most space of your hard drive. Once this task is done, you can select any location in the folder view, in order for the app to reveal the size, percentage, total files, folders and subfolders, date of creation, modification and access, along with the attributes and owner for each file or subfolder. You can pick a local or removable storage unit and let Folder Size perform a scanning procedure. The interface of the program is user-friendly. This way you can find out which items take up the most space on your hard drive, for instance. When Folder Size detects that other programs are doing a lot of reading to and writing from the hard disk being scanned, the background scanning will wait for the other programs to finish.Folder Size is a useful software application that reveals the exact size of files and folders on your computer. Background scans won't monopolize your disk.Explorer will automatically update the folder size column in real-time.Large folders will continue to scan in the background while you browse your folders. As soon as you display the Folder Size column, you'll see sizes immediately. No scanning phase before you can start.Not just for disk cleanup, but for any time you need to choose a folder.

It's always there when you're viewing your folders (even in Open and Save file dialog boxes, you can change the view), and it's a great visual cue to help you find the one you're looking for.

Don't switch to another program to see folder sizes.

It keeps track of which folders you view, and scans them in the background so you can see complete size of all files within the folder. The new column shows not only the size of files, but also the size of folders. Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer.

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