>Is there a way of getting the size of subdirectories
>
>I tried
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>Run dir x:\foxdev\* /s >x:\temp\dirsize.txt
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>but this will not work from within foxpro
>
>any Ideas please


Try using the WSH Scripting.FileSystemObject; you can rerieve a Folder object using GetFolder and then step through the SubFolders collection to retrieve their sizes:

oFSO = CREATEOBJ('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
oFolder=oFSO.GetFolder('C:\MyFolderWithSubFolders')
FOR EACH oSubFolder IN oFolder
   ? oSubFolder.Name, oSubFolder.Size
ENDFOR