Get folder size

Question

Do you know how can I get the folder size in Java?

The length() method in the File class only works for files, using that method I always get a size of 0.

Answer 1

import java.io.File;

public class GetFolderSize {

    int totalFolder = 0;
    int totalFile = 0;

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        String folder = "C:/GetExamples";
        try {
            GetFolderSize size = new GetFolderSize();
            long fileSizeByte = size.getFileSize(new File(folder));
            System.out.println("Folder Size: " + fileSizeByte + " Bytes");
            System.out.println("Total Number of Folders: "
                + size.getTotalFolder());
            System.out.println("Total Number of Files: " + size.getTotalFile());
        } catch (Exception e) {}
    }

    public long getFileSize(File folder) {
        totalFolder++;
        System.out.println("Folder: " + folder.getName());
        long foldersize = 0;
        File[] filelist = folder.listFiles();
        for (int i = 0; i < filelist.length; i++) {
            if (filelist[i].isDirectory()) {
                foldersize += getFileSize(filelist[i]);
            } else {
                totalFile++;
                foldersize += filelist[i].length();
            }
        }
        return foldersize;
    }

    public int getTotalFolder() {
        return totalFolder;
    }

    public int getTotalFile() {
        return totalFile;
    }
}

Answer 2

There is a slight error with simply recursively iterating over all subfolders. It is possible on some file systems to create circular directory structures using symbolic links as is demonstrated below:

mkdir -- parents father/son
ln -sf ${PWD}/father father/son
ls father/son/father/son/father/son/father/son/

To guard against this error, you can use the java.io.File#getCanonicalPath method. The code below is a slight modification of a previous answer.

public static long getFileSize(File folder) throws IOException {
    return ( getFileSize ( folder , new HashSet < String > ( ) ) ) ;
}

public static long getFileSize(File folder, Set<String> history)
        throws IOException {
    long foldersize = 0;
    File[] filelist = folder.listFiles();
    for (int i = 0; i < filelist.length; i++) {
        System.err.println("HISTORY");
        System.err.println(history);
        boolean inHistory = history.contains(filelist[i].getCanonicalPath());
        history.add(filelist[i].getCanonicalPath());
        if (inHistory) {
            // skip it
        } else if (filelist[i].isDirectory()) {
            foldersize += getFileSize(filelist[i], history);
        } else {
            foldersize += filelist[i].length();
        }
    }
    return foldersize;
}

Answer 3

Go through a folder, file by file, getting the size of each file and adding them to the variable size.

static int size=0;

 public static int folderSize(File folder){

    size = 0;

    File[] fileList = folder.listFiles();

    for(File file : fileList){
        if(!file.isFile()){ 
            folderSize(file);
        }
        size += file.length();
    }
    return size;
}

Answer 4

public class DirectorySize {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
          // Prompt the user to enter a directory or a file
          System.out.print("Please Enter a Directory or a File: ");
          Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
          String directory = input.nextLine();

          // Display the size
          System.out.println(getSize(new File(directory)) + " bytes");
   }

   public static long getSize(File file) {
           long size = 0; // Store the total size of all files

           if (file.isDirectory()) {
                  File[] files = file.listFiles(); // All files and subdirectories
                  for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                         size += getSize(files[i]); // Recursive call
               }
           }
           else { // Base case
                  size += file.length();
           }

           return size;
   }

}

Answer 5

import java.io.File;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

public class FolderSize
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
   {
    long size = FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory(new File("C:/Windows/folder"));

    System.out.println("Folder Size: " + size + " bytes");
   }
}

Answer 6

Iterate over all subfolders in the folder and get the summary size of all files there.