The size filters available by default are empty (0 KB), Tiny (0 – 10 KB), Small (10 – 100 KB), Medium (100 KB – 1 MB), Large (1 – 16 MB), Huge (16 – 128 MB) and Gigantic ( 128 MB). Just enter ' size: ' in the search bar of Windows Explorer and the default list will be automatically revealed. Click the View tab on the Ribbon along the folder's top edge. A menu appears, listing the umpteen. The size filters available by default are empty (0 KB), Tiny (0 – 10 KB), Small (10 – 100 KB), Medium (100 KB – 1 MB), Large (1 – 16 MB), Huge (16 – 128 MB) and Gigantic ( 128 MB). Just enter 'size:' in the search bar of Windows Explorer and the default list will be automatically revealed. You can select any size filter to search. When converting NTFS to FAT32 it is important to determine which files are over the 4GB limit. Though Windows explorer allows searching 'size:4GB', I prefer having a text-output of results. Indeed, Windows 10 still has the INT32 CLI and BATCH limit 2^31.
To find the size of a computer file or folder, select your operating system in the list below and follow the instructions.
Microsoft Windows users
Below are the different steps you can take to determine the total size of a file, multiple files, or folder on a computer running Microsoft Windows.
- Locate and highlight the file(s) or folder that you want to determine the size.
- Right-click the file and click Properties.
- The image below shows that you can determine the size of the file or files you have highlighted from in the file properties window. In this example, the chrome.jpg file is 18.5 KB (19,032 bytes), and that the size on disk is 20.0 KB (20,480 bytes).
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- Open My Computer or Windows Explorer.
- Make Windows display file properties by clicking on View at the top of the window, and then selecting Details. Once this action is completed, your Explorer displays all your files, their sizes, type, and last modified date.
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- Open My Computer or Windows Explorer.
- Move to the directory containing your file.
- If you want to see the total space of the current directory, view the size of the directory on the right-side of the status bar. Otherwise, highlight the file you whose size you want to view and look at the status bar.
You can also select multiple files and once all of the files you want are highlighted right-click on any of the highlighted files and choose Properties. In the Properties window, it shows the size of all files combined. See: How to select or highlight multiple files and folders.
macOS X users
- Locate the file or folder whose size you would like to view.
- Click once on the file or folder.
- Press Command + I on your keyboard.
- A window opens and shows the size of the file or folder.
MS-DOS and Windows command line users
The following instructions contain information on the different methods a user can utilize to view the size of a file or files in MS-DOS.
- Move to the directory of the file whose size you want to view.
- Once in the directory, perform one of the following commands.
The command above shows the size of the single file myfile.txt.
The command above lists all text files in the current directory, as shown in the picture below.
As seen in the example above, this shows there are five txt files in the current directory with a total size of 124,264 bytes.
- For additional wildcard examples, see our wildcard definition.
- See the cd command and dir command pages for further information about each of these commands.
Linux and Unix users
Below are some of the different methods a *nix user can use to determine a size of a file on their computer.
- Move to the directory of the file whose size you want to view.
- Once in the directory, perform one of the following commands.
Command one example
Command one output
In the output example above, the 11567230 is the size of the file. For a more user-friendly output, use the du command, as shown below.
Command two example
Command two output
If you want to see the total size of multiple files, type the following.
The example command above lists every .txt file in the current directory. It also lists the size of each file and the total size of all the files combined.
Additional information
- See the directory, disk capacity, file, and folder definitions for further information and related links.
In Windows, if one wants to find which files are consuming most of the space on the disk, it can be found easily using explorer. Just sort list of the files based on the size attribute. But what if we need to find the large sized files from command line? How can we do this?
We can find this using windows commands, without needing any third party tools. We can do this using forfiles command.
Find files with size of 1 MB or more.
Example:
File Size In Mb
This command prints the complete file path. If you need to print just the file name, you can use @file in place of @path.
Windows Explorer Size In Mb
Command to find files with size of more than 100MB
20 Mb File Size
Find files with size 1 GB or more.
Show File Size In Mb
As shown above, this command allows us to find files having size more than a given value. It's not useful if someone wants to find the largest 10 files in a folder. I could not find a way to do this using windows native commands. If you know of any way to do this, please let others know by adding comment below.
