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Vincent recently brought up a seemingly simple subject - calculating the size of a directory. I mean, you just recurse into the directory, adding up all the file sizes as you go, right?
Wrong. Especially on Windows.
I'd go over all the problems with this approach, but Raymond Chen has summarized them so well here that I'll just let you read that and let it soak in.
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