[Bug]: get-foldersize and user profile files

[jszabo98]

Describe the problem

get-foldersize doesn't seem to return the correct size for user profiles, maybe because of things like symlinks? It is fast though.

Expectation

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Additional Information

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PowerShell version

4.0

Platform

None

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[jdhitsolutions]

What version of PowerShell are you using? What path are you querying? Are you including hidden files?

[jszabo98]

Powershell 5.1. c:\users. Including hidden files.

[jdhitsolutions]

You'll probably get access-denied messages for parts of that path, even if running as Admin. I did a test on my profile in Windows PowerShell.

Get-FolderSizeInfo $home -hidden

My total size is actually about 3GB more than what I get when I use Windows Explorer and look at properties. The same test in PowerShell 7 is closer to the results I see in Windows Explorer. This is on a Windows 11 system. Profile folders are tricky due to hidden files and special access permissions.

Although, there might be an issue with symlinks. In Windows PowerShell, the function follows the link and includes the size information, but not in PowerShell 7, which uses a different .NET method.

[jszabo98]

This suits me, to skip the reparsepoints like the mounted Onedrive ...

$top = ($di.GetDirectories()).Where( { $_.attributes -notmatch 'reparsepoint' })

[jdhitsolutions]

Let me see what I can come up with.

[jdhitsolutions]

I have a new version for the next release. I am now skipping all reparse points and junctions.

[jdhitsolutions]

v2.49.0 has been published to the PowerShell Gallery if you want to update and test.

[jszabo98]

Looks good. Actually my typical usage is like this, sort of "du | sort -n". It's good for avd, where the disk is slower.

icm comp001 { dir -dir -force C:\programdata\ | Get-FolderSizeInfo.ps1 | sort totalsize } | ft -a