File Explorer

I am looking to build a file explorer that can show the sizes of folders as well as the files within. Is there a way to extend the file browser example to show the aggregate folder sizes? or is does this have to be built from scratch? Advice is welcome.

Thank you,
Robb

I am not sure, but I would think that to do that, the app would have to walk through every directory getting the files sizes to get a total. That seems like it would be a heck of a slow File Browser, unless it was doing some kinda of caching, and keeping track of every file being written to the system, after some type of initial background caching kind of like the everything tool does for file searches http://www.voidtools.com/.

Unless I am I am not thinking of something… just seems like a heck of a resource hog, without some type of caching and monitoring mechanism.

If you want a fast method of doing it, consider a plugin from MBS. They include an example program too.

A question comes to mind: what for ?