very quickly getting total size of folder
- by freakazo
I want to quickly find the total size of any folder using python.
def GetFolderSize(path):
TotalSize = 0
for item in os.walk(path):
for file in item[2]:
try:
TotalSize = TotalSize + getsize(join(item[0], file))
except:
print("error with file: " + join(item[0], file))
return TotalSize
That's the simple script I wrote to get the total size of the folder, it took around 60 seconds (+-5 seconds). By using multiprocessing I got it down to 23 seconds on a quad core machine.
Using the Windows file explorer it takes only ~3 seconds (Right click- properties to see for yourself). So is there a faster way of finding the total size of a folder close to the speed that windows can do it?
Windows 7, python 2.6 (Did searches but most of the time people used a very similar method to my own)
Thanks in advance.
