Guest st Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 I know that everyones my documents folder size is different, so excluding at folder can someone tell me what is the average size of data that is being copied over. I am transfering from xp to xp. I just want to know because if it is too much data i dont want to transfer it across the network
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: file and transfer wizard Even ignoring personal documents, the size of installations vary greatly depending on what applications you have installed and a number of other things. Open Windows Explorer and then for each folder on C:\, right-click it and check Properties. Add up the sizes and you'll have the total. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "st" <st@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DDB6937B-B825-4BD8-9C80-9631AA7CBFE8@microsoft.com... >I know that everyones my documents folder size is different, so excluding >at > folder can someone tell me what is the average size of data that is being > copied over. I am transfering from xp to xp. I just want to know because > if > it is too much data i dont want to transfer it across the network
Guest RalfG Posted July 6, 2007 Posted July 6, 2007 Re: file and transfer wizard Or subtract the total for My Documents from the total for C:\ drive ... about 29Gigs here, including a couple or three large games. "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:eypbC%230vHHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Even ignoring personal documents, the size of installations vary greatly > depending on what applications you have installed and a number of other > things. Open Windows Explorer and then for each folder on C:\, right-click > it and check Properties. Add up the sizes and you'll have the total. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > "st" <st@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:DDB6937B-B825-4BD8-9C80-9631AA7CBFE8@microsoft.com... >>I know that everyones my documents folder size is different, so excluding >>at >> folder can someone tell me what is the average size of data that is being >> copied over. I am transfering from xp to xp. I just want to know because >> if >> it is too much data i dont want to transfer it across the network > >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted July 6, 2007 Posted July 6, 2007 Re: file and transfer wizard Yeah, I forgot to have OP subtract the MD total, although OP is probably going to transfer the whole thing, so why not calculate the sum total? But you don't want to calculate the total space used, which is what is shown in My Computer for C:\ drive. That figure includes a large amount of slack space (unused space inside used clusters) that would not be involved in any transfer. To know how much data will be transferred, you need to add up the sizes of the folder and files on C:\, as shown in folder or file Properties. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "RalfG" <itsnotme@bin-wieder-da.de> wrote in message news:O3tFsq8vHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Or subtract the total for My Documents from the total for C:\ drive ... > about 29Gigs here, including a couple or three large games. > > "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message > news:eypbC%230vHHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Even ignoring personal documents, the size of installations vary greatly >> depending on what applications you have installed and a number of other >> things. Open Windows Explorer and then for each folder on C:\, >> right-click it and check Properties. Add up the sizes and you'll have the >> total. >> >> -- >> Gary S. Terhune >> MS-MVP Shell/User >> http://www.grystmill.com >> >> "st" <st@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:DDB6937B-B825-4BD8-9C80-9631AA7CBFE8@microsoft.com... >>>I know that everyones my documents folder size is different, so excluding >>>at >>> folder can someone tell me what is the average size of data that is >>> being >>> copied over. I am transfering from xp to xp. I just want to know because >>> if >>> it is too much data i dont want to transfer it across the network >> >> > >
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