From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-07-06T22:28:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Folder Size

John Joyce wrote:
> To explain it a little further... technically, even the system is
> doing some recursion here when it shows you a folder size.

If you right-click on a large Windows folder such as My Documents and 
select Properties (in XP at any rate) you can see the system recursing 
through and adding up the number of bytes. In theory this figure could 
be made available instantly if the system kept track of what was going 
on in each folder. But presumably that would slow things down (more).
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