Recycle Bin total

[Ed Cryer]

How do I get Win7 Recycle Bin to show total content size on the Status
Bar? It shows Number of Items, and you can get the sizes of individual
entries under Detail View. But XP shows Total.
I can either run my eye down the size column and get a rough estimate;
or I can do a Disk Cleanup and look in the entry for the RB it displays.

Ed

 

[Nil]

How do I get Win7 Recycle Bin to show total content size on the
Status Bar? It shows Number of Items, and you can get the sizes of
individual entries under Detail View. But XP shows Total.

I wish I knew the answer to this, too. I will be watching!

I'm afraid the answer will be "you can't do that anymore." That's one
of a number of things in Win7 that XP had right that MS decided wasn't
right.

 

[SC Tom]

How do I get Win7 Recycle Bin to show total content size on the Status Bar? It shows Number of Items, and you can get
the sizes of individual entries under Detail View. But XP shows Total.
I can either run my eye down the size column and get a rough estimate; or I can do a Disk Cleanup and look in the
entry for the RB it displays.

Ed

Make sure Status Bar is enabled. I thought mine was, but it's the other bar, whatever it's called, that's showing with
the Recycle Bin icon and "5 items" next to it. When I clicked View, Status Bar, the real Status Bar showed, and it says
5 items on the left and 60.1MB on the right (I'm running Win7 Home Premium 32-bit).

 

[Ed Cryer]

Make sure Status Bar is enabled. I thought mine was, but it's the other
bar, whatever it's called, that's showing with the Recycle Bin icon and
"5 items" next to it. When I clicked View, Status Bar, the real Status
Bar showed, and it says 5 items on the left and 60.1MB on the right (I'm
running Win7 Home Premium 32-bit).

I can't get that for the life of me. I'm running HP 64-bit.

Ed

 

[Peter Foldes]

How do I get Win7 Recycle Bin to show total content size on the Status Bar? It
shows Number of Items, and you can get the sizes of individual entries under
Detail View. But XP shows Total.
I can either run my eye down the size column and get a rough estimate; or I can do
a Disk Cleanup and look in the entry for the RB it displays.

Disabled by Default. I do not have a Win 7 in front of me now but you can change the
default with the Reg Key

JS

 

[SC Tom]

I can't get that for the life of me. I'm running HP 64-bit.

Ed

I forgot to mention, I'm also running Classic Shell. That may have something to do with my view of it.

 

[jbm]

"Ed Cryer" wrote in message
How do I get Win7 Recycle Bin to show total content size on the Status
Bar? It shows Number of Items, and you can get the sizes of individual
entries under Detail View. But XP shows Total.
I can either run my eye down the size column and get a rough estimate;
or I can do a Disk Cleanup and look in the entry for the RB it displays.

Ed

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Don't think you can. For some reason, Windows 7's version of the Recycle Bin
in unable to handle folders. If you have only files in the Bin, or select
only files, leaving alone any folders, the total size will be displayed in
the Notification Panel (not the Status Bar) at the bottom of the window. If
your version doesn't show this, try selecting the files and right click >
Properties, and it shows the answer. As soon as you include a folder, empty
or otherwise, it just can't handle it.

jim

 

[SC Tom]

"Ed Cryer" wrote in message
How do I get Win7 Recycle Bin to show total content size on the Status
Bar? It shows Number of Items, and you can get the sizes of individual
entries under Detail View. But XP shows Total.
I can either run my eye down the size column and get a rough estimate;
or I can do a Disk Cleanup and look in the entry for the RB it displays.

Ed

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Don't think you can. For some reason, Windows 7's version of the Recycle Bin in unable to handle folders. If you have
only files in the Bin, or select only files, leaving alone any folders, the total size will be displayed in the
Notification Panel (not the Status Bar) at the bottom of the window. If your version doesn't show this, try selecting
the files and right click > Properties, and it shows the answer. As soon as you include a folder, empty or otherwise,
it just can't handle it.

jim

Not on mine. In my earlier reply to Ed, I had 60.1MB of files and no folders. I deleted a folder with 1.93MB of files in
it and now my Recycle Bin shows 62.0MB. As I posted then, I am also running Classic Shell, so that may have some affect
on my views.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I can't get that for the life of me. I'm running HP 64-bit.

Ed

I don't seem to see what SC Tom describes either (yes, I saw his post
about Classic Shell), but if I select items, I do seem to see the size
of them at the bottom of the window. The visibility state of the status
bar seems not to matter.

I'm confused, but I'm soon going to watch TV, and so I won't find out
more tonight

 

[SC Tom]

I don't seem to see what SC Tom describes either (yes, I saw his post
about Classic Shell), but if I select items, I do seem to see the size
of them at the bottom of the window. The visibility state of the status
bar seems not to matter.

I'm confused, but I'm soon going to watch TV, and so I won't find out
more tonight

This is what I see when I double-click on the Recycle Bin icon:

http://tinypic.com/m/f0uede/3

The settings under View are Status Bar checked, Details, Sort by Name and Ascending, and Group By has nothing selected.
Why mine should be any different than anyone else's is beyond me unless it's because of Classic Shell.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Not on mine. In my earlier reply to Ed, I had 60.1MB of files and no
folders. I deleted a folder with 1.93MB of files in it and now my
Recycle Bin shows 62.0MB. As I posted then, I am also running Classic
Shell, so that may have some affect on my views.

Ditto. I am running Classic Shell, and Status Bar is an option on the
View menu.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

This is what I see when I double-click on the Recycle Bin icon:

http://tinypic.com/m/f0uede/3

The settings under View are Status Bar checked, Details, Sort by Name and Ascending, and Group By has nothing selected.
Why mine should be any different than anyone else's is beyond me unless it's because of Classic Shell.

Could be. Or maybe it's just the luck of the Irish...

I don't have Classic Shell. As a test, I followed your instructions and
didn't see what your screen shot shows.

Also, even though my bin can show the total size for the highlighted
files (in the pane just above the status bar), it doesn't include the
directories in the totals (I tested that). In fact if I add a directory
to the file selection, the size part of the display goes away. Crazy...

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Ditto. I am running Classic Shell, and Status Bar is an option on the
View menu.

As it is in my Recycle Bin without Classic Shell. But it acts
differently. No sizes...

 

[SC Tom]

Could be. Or maybe it's just the luck of the Irish...

I don't have Classic Shell. As a test, I followed your instructions and
didn't see what your screen shot shows.

Also, even though my bin can show the total size for the highlighted
files (in the pane just above the status bar), it doesn't include the
directories in the totals (I tested that). In fact if I add a directory
to the file selection, the size part of the display goes away. Crazy...

The strange part for me is that the RB will show total size, including the files in the folder, but when I click on my
C: drive in Explorer, it says 69 items, 8.24GB. Jeez, my Windows folder alone is 13.5GB, but when I highlight it in the
left-hand column, it says 115 items, 368MB. Strange that the status bar is right for one but not the other. Go figure. .
..

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

The strange part for me is that the RB will show total size, including the files in the folder, but when I click on my
C: drive in Explorer, it says 69 items, 8.24GB. Jeez, my Windows folder alone is 13.5GB, but when I highlight it in the
left-hand column, it says 115 items, 368MB. Strange that the status bar is right for one but not the other. Go figure. .
.

I've got it!

Choose the one with the bugs you like the best!

IOW, it's *all* weird

 

[Monty]

How do I get Win7 Recycle Bin to show total content size on the Status
Bar? It shows Number of Items, and you can get the sizes of individual
entries under Detail View. But XP shows Total.
I can either run my eye down the size column and get a rough estimate;
or I can do a Disk Cleanup and look in the entry for the RB it displays.

Ed,

Treesize Free will display the size info of files and folder totals on
each partition.

Not quite what you asked for but might be another option to look at.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Ed,

Treesize Free will display the size info of files and folder totals on
each partition.

Not quite what you asked for but might be another option to look at.

Will it work in the Recycle Bin?

 

[Monty]

Will it work in the Recycle Bin?

Yes - is the short answer. A longer answer follows:

With TreeView Free I can do a scan of my Drive C:\ and note that the
details displayed show 145.4 MB $RECYCLE.BIN and also size
information for each of the other folders and files. The size of the
recycle bin can be displayed as 145MB, 145.4MB, 145.45MB or 145.449MB
- depending on how many decimal points I want to see. For myself,
145MB is all I need to know.

If I need a more exact figure I can R-click on $RECYCLE.BIN and select
"Properties" and see that the size is 145 MB (152,484,887 bytes) and
contains 8 Files, 4 Folders.

There is also an arrow associated with each folder which will expand
to show the folders and files inside. TreeView will let you delete any
files you want to (if you have the appropriate permissions).

I only installed TreeView Free to see what it does display. For my own
purposes I have used Total Commander for the past 10 years.