How can I retrieve size of folder or file in Java?
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java.io.File file = new java.io.File("myfile.txt");
file.length();
This returns the length of the file in bytes or 0 if the file does not exist. There is no built-in way to get the size of a folder, you are going to have to walk the directory tree recursively (using the listFiles() method of a file object that represents a directory) and accumulate the directory size for yourself:
public static long folderSize(File directory) {
long length = 0;
for (File file : directory.listFiles()) {
if (file.isFile())
length += file.length();
else
length += folderSize(file);
}
return length;
}
WARNING: This method is not sufficiently robust for production use. directory.listFiles() may return null and cause a NullPointerException. Also, it doesn't consider symlinks and possibly has other failure modes. Use this method.
Using java-7 nio api, calculating the folder size can be done a lot quicker.
Here is a ready to run example that is robust and won't throw an exception. It will log directories it can't enter or had trouble traversing. Symlinks are ignored, and concurrent modification of the directory won't cause more trouble than necessary.
/**
* Attempts to calculate the size of a file or directory.
*
* <p>
* Since the operation is non-atomic, the returned value may be inaccurate.
* However, this method is quick and does its best.
*/
public static long size(Path path) {
final AtomicLong size = new AtomicLong(0);
try {
Files.walkFileTree(path, new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
@Override
public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) {
size.addAndGet(attrs.size());
return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
}
@Override
public FileVisitResult visitFileFailed(Path file, IOException exc) {
System.out.println("skipped: " + file + " (" + exc + ")");
// Skip folders that can't be traversed
return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
}
@Override
public FileVisitResult postVisitDirectory(Path dir, IOException exc) {
if (exc != null)
System.out.println("had trouble traversing: " + dir + " (" + exc + ")");
// Ignore errors traversing a folder
return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
}
});
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new AssertionError("walkFileTree will not throw IOException if the FileVisitor does not");
}
return size.get();
}
public static long getFolderSize(File dir) {
long size = 0;
for (File file : dir.listFiles()) {
if (file.isFile()) {
System.out.println(file.getName() + " " + file.length());
size += file.length();
}
else
size += getFolderSize(file);
}
return size;
}
File.length() (Javadoc).
Note that this doesn't work for directories, or is not guaranteed to work.
For a directory, what do you want? If it's the total size of all files underneath it, you can recursively walk children using File.list() and File.isDirectory() and sum their sizes.
- Works for Android and Java
- Works for both folders and files
- Checks for null pointer everywhere where needed
- Ignores symbolic link aka shortcuts
- Production ready!
Source code:
public long fileSize(File root) {
if(root == null){
return 0;
}
if(root.isFile()){
return root.length();
}
try {
if(isSymlink(root)){
return 0;
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return 0;
}
long length = 0;
File[] files = root.listFiles();
if(files == null){
return 0;
}
for (File file : files) {
length += fileSize(file);
}
return length;
}
private static boolean isSymlink(File file) throws IOException {
File canon;
if (file.getParent() == null) {
canon = file;
} else {
File canonDir = file.getParentFile().getCanonicalFile();
canon = new File(canonDir, file.getName());
}
return !canon.getCanonicalFile().equals(canon.getAbsoluteFile());
}
I've tested du -c <folderpath> and is 2x faster than nio.Files or recursion
private static long getFolderSize(File folder){
if (folder != null && folder.exists() && folder.canRead()){
try {
Process p = new ProcessBuilder("du","-c",folder.getAbsolutePath()).start();
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String total = "";
for (String line; null != (line = r.readLine());)
total = line;
r.close();
p.waitFor();
if (total.length() > 0 && total.endsWith("total"))
return Long.parseLong(total.split("\\s+")[0]) * 1024;
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
return -1;
}
for windows, using java.io this reccursive function is useful.
public static long folderSize(File directory) {
long length = 0;
if (directory.isFile())
length += directory.length();
else{
for (File file : directory.listFiles()) {
if (file.isFile())
length += file.length();
else
length += folderSize(file);
}
}
return length;
}
This is tested and working properly on my end.
private static long getFolderSize(Path folder) {
try {
return Files.walk(folder)
.filter(p -> p.toFile().isFile())
.mapToLong(p -> p.toFile().length())
.sum();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return 0L;
}
You can use Apache Commons IO to find the folder size easily.
If you are on maven, please add the following dependency in your pom.xml file.
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-io/commons-io -->
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
</dependency>
If not a fan of Maven, download the following jar and add it to the class path.
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/2.6/commons-io-2.6.jar
public long getFolderSize() {
File folder = new File("src/test/resources");
long size = FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory(folder);
return size; // in bytes
}
To get file size via Commons IO,
File file = new File("ADD YOUR PATH TO FILE");
long fileSize = FileUtils.sizeOf(file);
System.out.println(fileSize); // bytes
It is also achievable via Google Guava
For Maven, add the following:
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.guava/guava -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>28.1-jre</version>
</dependency>
If not using Maven, add the following to class path
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/guava/guava/28.1-jre/guava-28.1-jre.jar
public long getFolderSizeViaGuava() {
File folder = new File("src/test/resources");
Iterable<File> files = Files.fileTreeTraverser()
.breadthFirstTraversal(folder);
long size = StreamSupport.stream(files.spliterator(), false)
.filter(f -> f.isFile())
.mapToLong(File::length).sum();
return size;
}
To get file size,
File file = new File("PATH TO YOUR FILE");
long s = file.length();
System.out.println(s);
fun getSize(context: Context, uri: Uri?): Float? {
var fileSize: String? = null
val cursor: Cursor? = context.contentResolver
.query(uri!!, null, null, null, null, null)
try {
if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
// get file size
val sizeIndex: Int = cursor.getColumnIndex(OpenableColumns.SIZE)
if (!cursor.isNull(sizeIndex)) {
fileSize = cursor.getString(sizeIndex)
}
}
} finally {
cursor?.close()
}
return fileSize!!.toFloat() / (1024 * 1024)
}
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