#Description: This powershell script allows you to search for folders containing largest files (over 100MB)
#Purpose: quickly find large files on remote server to resolve space issues
#Designed to be added into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline
#Tested with: Windows 2000, 2003, 2008
#Last edit by: MsMiller on 13/01/2009
$erroractionpreference = 'silentlycontinue'
$error.psbase.clear()
$erroractionpreference = 'silentlycontinue'
$startFolder = $args[0]
if ($args[0] -eq $null)
{
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "This script scans a selected folder on your PC or network share looking for subfolders over 100MB"
""
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "Your selected folder names can not contain spaces, so use quotes for your selection"
""
$startFolder = read-host "Enter share, folder you want to scan"
""
}
" "
"Start @ "
date -format G
" "
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "Size of current directory excluding subfolders:"
" "
$colItems = (Get-ChildItem $startFolder | Measure-Object -property length -sum)
"$startFolder -- " + "{0:N3}" -f ($colItems.sum / 1GB) + " GB"
" "
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "This might take few minutes depending on size of the chosen folder."
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "You can exit the script with Ctrl+C and run it again narrowing down your selection."
" "
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "Size of all subfolders over 100MB: ........"
" "
$colItems = (Get-ChildItem $startFolder -recurse | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer -eq $True} | Sort-Object)
foreach ($i in $colItems)
{
$subFolderItems = (Get-ChildItem $i.FullName | Measure-Object -property length -sum)
$size="{0:N2}" -f ($subFolderItems.sum / 1GB)
if ($size -gt 1)
{
$output=$i.FullName + " -- " + $size + " GB"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor red $output
}
if ($size -gt 0.1 -and $size -lt 1)
{
$output=$i.FullName + " -- " + $size + " GB"
$output
}
}
if ($output -eq $null)
{
Write-Host -ForegroundColor yellow "There were no subfolders found with size over 100MB"
}
" "
"End @ "
date -format G
" "
