May 22 2007
How Many Files Are On Your Computer?
For Windows do this:
- Go to the command-line: Start->Run, type “cmd”, and press Enter
- Type the following, press Enter, then wait until it’s finished:
dir /s /a-d c:\
You Apple and Linux people can post how to do it in the Comments section.
Post your total from all your hard-drives.
Here’s my work laptop. I’ll post my home computer’s tonight.
Total Files Listed:
339875 File(s) 33,966,350,671 bytes
339875 File(s) 33,966,350,671 bytes
I mere 61,422 files on my PC.
files….what are files…
I should have said..flies what are flies..just like the infamous…
..insects…what do you mean insects….
to a generation of Nova Scotians this was a classic…think goalers…
Here’s another way that just shows the count (substitute drive letter for c:). It includes files and directories.
dir /a /s “c:\” |find /c /v “”
My results:
C: 433,529
F: 61,469
G: 141,244
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Total: 636,242
That’s a lot of files!
“dir /a” will include those “.” and “..” directories in the count, which aren’t really directories. That’s why I put “/a-d” in the command - to not include directories in the count.
Brute force count in *nix/OS X, I’m sure there is a better way…
find / -type f | cat -n
485,705 on this box. My other one has quite a bit more, I think.
Insects?
What the hell are you taking about, Tom?
I’m from Nova Scotia. Am I supposed to know this reference?
Perhaps i overstated the knowledge base of this comment…it refers to an interview with one of the accussed during an investigation into sexual assaults within a family in rural nova scotia…..
when asked about the allegations of incest…the reply was
insects what about insects or a similar variation of this..
ask your brudder perhaps you was too much of a youngin when this occured….
C Drive: 87826 File(s) 45,618,860,865 bytes (Whole Wheat Radio system disk)
E Drive: 56287 File(s) 173,459,977,839 bytes(Whole Wheat Radio Indie Music Drive)
Apparently I have bigger content in fewer files than files with the brains to distribute it…
Total Files Listed:
175103 File(s) 125,149,314,810 bytes
0 Dir(s) 182,265,458,688 bytes free
On my other box, this was, pure serendipity, the last file returned (with the count):
1062663 /www/htdocs/young-nude-girls.png
125070 File(s) 107,402,010,347 bytes on my home computer.
We are all so not cool.
How many files are on my computer? A metric shitload. I’m not sure how much that is in imperial measurements :)
Here is what I have on my work laptop
Total Files Listed:
286721 File(s) 44,634,437,254 bytes
0 Dir(s) 31,876,355,584 bytes free
I started to do this, but it would take much too long. On this puter I have 2 OS’s with 4 partitions, on another computer I have 2 OS’s on 3 partitions, and I have 5 or 6 hard drives in the other two puters. I’m not bothering to count up 8 hard drives and 14 or so partitions. Unless you pay me good money, not that drug money you always pay me with.
I have about 81,485 files on my computer.