DISK SPACE ANALYZER WINDOWS

Overview

ListTopLevelDirectorySizes is a PowerShell script that calculates and displays the sizes of immediate subdirectories in a given path. It provides a quick and easy way to understand space usage across top-level folders in a specified directory.

Features

• Recursively calculates the size of each subdirectory
• Displays only top-level directory sizes
• Sorts directories by size in descending order
• Provides a total size of all directories
• Easy-to-use command-line interface

Prerequisites

• PowerShell V3 or higher

Installation

1. Clone this repository or download the ListTopLevelDirectorySizes.ps1 file.
2. Ensure you have PowerShell V3 or higher installed on your system.

Usage

Run the script from PowerShell, providing the target path as an argument:

.\ListTopLevelDirectorySizes.ps1 -targetPath "C:\Path\To\Your\Directory"

Examples

1. Analyze the Documents folder:

   .\ListTopLevelDirectorySizes.ps1 -targetPath "C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents"

2. Analyze a Projects folder on the D drive:

   .\ListTopLevelDirectorySizes.ps1 -targetPath "D:\Projects"

Output

The script will output a list of directories sorted by size in descending order, followed by the total size of all directories. For example:

   1500.50 MB  C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\LargeFolder
    750.25 MB  C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\MediumFolder
    250.75 MB  C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\SmallFolder

Total size of all directories: 2.44 GB

Help

To view the help information and usage examples, run:

Get-Help .\ListTopLevelDirectorySizes.ps1

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Author

JENISH RUDANI

Version

1.0

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.