Hello,

I am trying to get the size of a user's local profile using VBScript. I know the directory of the profile (typically "C:\Users\blah").

The following code does not work for most profiles (Permission Denied error 800A0046):

Dim folder
Dim fso

Set fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set folder = fso.GetFolder("C:\Users\blah")
MsgBox folder.Size    ' Error occurs here

Is there another way to do this?

UPDATE:
I did some deeper digging and it turns out that the Permission Denied error occurs if permission is denied to some subfolders or files of the directory whose size I wish to get. In the case of user profiles, there's always a few system files that even the Administrator group does not have permission to access.

To get around this, I wrote a function that tries to get the folder size the normal way (above), then, if the error occurs, it recurses into the subdirectories of the folder, ignoring folder sizes that are permission denied (but not the rest of the folders).

Dim fso
Set fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Function getFolderSize(folderName)
    On Error Resume Next

    Dim folder
    Dim subfolder
    Dim size
    Dim hasSubfolders

    size = 0
    hasSubfolders = False

    Set folder = fso.GetFolder(folderName)
    ' Try the non-recursive way first (potentially faster?)
    Err.Clear
    size = folder.Size
    If Err.Number <> 0 then     ' Did not work; do recursive way:
        For Each subfolder in folder.SubFolders
            size = size + getFolderSize(subfolder.Path)
            hasSubfolders = True
        Next

        If not hasSubfolders then
            size = folder.Size
        End If
    End If

    getFolderSize = size

    Set folder = Nothing        ' Just in case
End Function