Display the number of files and folders in a folder and its subfolders
I would appreciate to have the ability to see in the properties how many files and folders does a selection of files and folders contain (files and folders selected, plus all the files and folders in all the subfolders of the selection) on the website, like it is possible on Windows: today, you can only know how many elements you have ticked, or how many files and folders does only one folder contain (without including the files and folders in the subfolders).
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32 comments
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Jamie Weldon
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Just adding to the list ... please include the number of files in a folder on the web view of a one drive folder. It would be very helpful. It's been on the 'thinking about it' list since March 2019.
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Brian Heisler
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I am amazed this is not available; I was searching for this and fully expected to find some answers. I never would have guessed it's not even offered. That's an embarrassingly poor miss on MS' part. How are you truly expected to use this platform to upload/backup files? How would you know your files are all there/have been uploaded?
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Pix
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Yes, this is important to be able to know whether an uploaded folder with nested sub-folders was fully successful in being uploaded.
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SGH
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Cannot wait to hopefully soon have this option - see exact data (# files and actual file size - not size on disk) for current file, folder and / or current folder and sub-folder structure.
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Alison
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Also needed here. I need to be able to see via "info" (or some other way) number of folders, number of files, and exact size of single or multiple folders in onedrive (1T onedrive as part of ms office 365 home)
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Julio García Miguel
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Absolutely necessary!
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Anonymous
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I agree that knowing the number of files in various folders is critical and basic. The # of files shows in the OneDrive folder on my Surface Pro. Why wouldn't/shouldn't it show when I look at my (cloud) One Drive? This is a must fix or I will find a better service.
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Rob
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Not only should we be able to get proper folder properties including # of files, # of folders, and size, but I'm sure it would be possible to have a "Compare" function that will do a full comparison between the online store and what is in your local repository. That is what a PREMIUM product would provide to their paying clients
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Rob
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Crazy that Onedrive doesn't have this functionality. Why would MS leave this out? I'm sure this Uservoice forum thread won't result in any changes being made, as it's been around for nearly a year and a half and no changes, or even a reason why this cannot be done.
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AP
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I can't believe this is not s standard feature. There must be something else going on here, and I believe MS has omitted this basic feature on purpose.
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Anonymous
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ABSOLUTELY agree ...this would be an incredibly useful and really very important feature. Just from a basic management perspective this is very much missing. I'm managing thousands of files and right now finding it very difficult to confirm I have a match between OneDrive and my Local repository.
This is so important to me that I'm starting to think about a possible move to another Cloud service because the time it takes to QC file counts is taking too much energy when it should be a simple thing displayed within "Details" of a selection.
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Anonymous
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I, 100%, whole-heartedly support this request.
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Johan
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Just finished uploading 137GB of folders and files. Online I find 124GB of files. And now I can't pinpoint if and what something is missing. This makes Onedrive unreliable as a service. Fallback to icloud...
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Mike Noviskie
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How is this not a standard feature?? How has MS not listened for three years about this??? I have a large backup for a client that was interrupted, and have no way to know which folders are incomplete. Meanwhile, attempts to just copy over are rejected because the folders already exist. Massive fail, once again, OneDrive. Despite the many recent improvements, it's still clueless as to what normal people experience and need.
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Julia Pasquale
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December 2018 still nothing. This is crucial for my business as we must be able to report to clients a file number comparison to verify success of a migration.
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Anonymous
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November 2018 and still nothing
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David
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I just recently switched to One drive. I can't believe this has not been fixed yet. This makes it useless as you can't determine if all files have been uploaded.
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Anonymous
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August 2018 and still nothing?!
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ddunne
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Oh, don't you know? You're not supposed to use folders in Sharepoint! Search will find exactly what you need!
Seriously, Dropbox took File Explorer and built their entire business around it. And Microsoft cannot effectively implement it in their own product? This is such a basic troubleshooting function for support staff.
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M. Blais
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agreed with the others, this is a critical function that is missing from the onedrive service. competitors such as Box offer this basic service.
