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I’m triying to get a folder size by doing:
var FolderFile:File = new File("file:///SomePath/Folder");
var FolderSize: FolderFile.size;
But this gives me a value of 0, how can I get the folder size? is there anyway to do this?
Tranks
No, there’s no way to do it automagically. Getting the size of the directory is a complex and potentially painfully slow operation. There could be 10s of thousands of files in a directory, or a directory could be located on a (slow?) network, not to mention tape storage and similar scenarios.
The file systems themselves don’t store directory size information, and the only way to know it is to calculate it file-by-file, there’s no quick/easy shortcut. So, you will have to rely on the solution you posted above, and, yes, it is going to be slow.