With diruse I could write a command at any time and it would give me size per folder without waisting time. I could type: diruse /m /, /. and it would give me size of all users in a specific directory with the size of what they use in MB.
Mar 16, 2004 The Windows NT Resource Kit includes DIRUSE which will give you disk usage by drive, folder, or sub-folders. DIRUSE displays the number of folders, files and space consumed.
Imagine you need to determine the size of a directory, but you do not have access to it and cannot change the permissions, either. Such a situation is common with Windows user profiles. This article shows how to deal with it.
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There are several ways to determine the size of a directory from the command line. But the possibly obvious choice, the command diruse.exe, cannot be used with user profiles – like many other tools it does not know how to handle the directory junctions in V2 profiles.
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Of course, there is always the possibility of rolling your own, for example as a PowerShell script. But it is much easier (and also less error-prone) to resort to a proven tool like the Sysinternals interpretation of the popular Unix tool du. Usage is simple:
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There is only one problem with du: it cannot bypass security and count every file regardless of permissions. Basically you only see what you are allowed to see. Here is an interesting way around that limitation, using robocopy’s ability to list every file in backup mode:
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