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Title: Determining size of shared folder
Post by: parsobarus on July 31, 2013, 02:17:52 PM
How can you query the size of a shared folder? When I right-click and select properties, it doesn't tell me the size.
Title: Re: Determining size of shared folder
Post by: davo on July 31, 2013, 04:43:56 PM
The shared folder uses the entire capacity of the HDD.
Title: Re: Determining size of shared folder
Post by: parsobarus on July 31, 2013, 05:11:55 PM
Quote from: davo on July 31, 2013, 04:43:56 PM
The shared folder uses the entire capacity of the HDD.

Each shared folder uses the capacity needed to store its contents, not the "entire capacity of the HDD". If that were true, you could only have one shared folder on each HDD.
Title: Re: Determining size of shared folder
Post by: parsobarus on August 01, 2013, 12:01:02 PM
I finally got the size by selecting everything inside the folder and right-click>Properties. This wouldn't work on my XP machine, but does on my Win7 machine. On XP, the hourglass appeared for about 5 minutes and then ... nothing happened.

On QNAP NASs, the browser-based control panel will tell you the sizes. I found this script, but it doesn't give you the total size of the shared folder. http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/c24a28a2-2c9e-4ece-b43d-3209dfbdaadd (http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/c24a28a2-2c9e-4ece-b43d-3209dfbdaadd)

Instead, it outputs a text file with the sizes of individual folders inside of the shared folder. Not useful when you have 600+ folders inside the share like I do.
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