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develop peek now folders/drives into treesize #31757

Open tezvienna opened 7 months ago

tezvienna commented 7 months ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

The new feature allows a user to select a drive or folder and obtain recursive information about the disk space used in subfolders. The user can navigate in a tree structure (expand and collapse subordinate folders) and see the disk space used in this folder and all folders below it.

Scenario when this would be used?

The user has too little storage space on a drive, but does not know exactly how the storage space used is distributed in the subfolders.

Supporting information

There are already existing standalone programs that offer this functionality, e.g. TreeSize or Filelight. This functionality would fit well into the functional scope of PowerToys in a rudimentary, simplified form.

TheJoeFin commented 7 months ago

/dup #31686

microsoft-github-policy-service[bot] commented 7 months ago

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

daverayment commented 4 weeks ago

@TheJoeFin I don't think this is a duplicate of the other issue. #31686 is about showing the contents of a single folder, like a mini Explorer. This issue is about also showing the recursive sizes of subfolders, like TreeSize. As it stands at the moment, #31686 doesn't refer to anything like that.

Perhaps there could be an option to show this recursive size info in the view, making this a child to the other issue?