Powershell folder size of folders without listing Subdirectories

Question

I have found several resources that use the following script to get folder sizes

$colItems = (Get-ChildItem $startFolder -recurse | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContaine         


        

Answer 1

This is similar to https://stackoverflow.com/users/3396598/kohlbrr answer, but I was trying to get the total size of a single folder and found that the script doesn't count the files in the Root of the folder you are searching. This worked for me.

$startFolder = "C:\Users";
$totalSize = 0;

$colItems = Get-ChildItem $startFolder
foreach ($i in $colItems)
{
    $subFolderItems = Get-ChildItem $i.FullName -recurse -force | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer -eq $false} | Measure-Object -property Length -sum | Select-Object Sum
    $totalSize = $totalSize + $subFolderItems.sum / 1MB

}

$startFolder + " | " + "{0:N2}" -f ($totalSize) + " MB"