Directory file size calculation - how to make it faster?

Question

Using C#, I am finding the total size of a directory. The logic is this way : Get the files inside the folder. Sum up the total size. Find if there are sub directories. Then

Answer 1

I gave up on the .NET implementations (for performance reasons) and used the Native function GetFileAttributesEx(...)

Try this:

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA
{
    public uint fileAttributes;
    public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME creationTime;
    public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME lastAccessTime;
    public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME lastWriteTime;
    public uint fileSizeHigh;
    public uint fileSizeLow;
}

public enum GET_FILEEX_INFO_LEVELS
{
    GetFileExInfoStandard,
    GetFileExMaxInfoLevel
}

public class NativeMethods {
    [DllImport("KERNEL32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    public static extern bool GetFileAttributesEx(string path, GET_FILEEX_INFO_LEVELS  level, out WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA data);

}

Now simply do the following:

WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA data;
if(NativeMethods.GetFileAttributesEx("[your path]", GET_FILEEX_INFO_LEVELS.GetFileExInfoStandard, out data)) {

     long size = (data.fileSizeHigh << 32) & data.fileSizeLow;
}