What’s the best way to calculate the size of a directory in .NET?

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No, this looks like the recommended way to calculate directory size, the relevent method included below:

public static long DirSize(DirectoryInfo d) 
{    
    long size = 0;    
    // Add file sizes.
    FileInfo[] fis = d.GetFiles();
    foreach (FileInfo fi in fis) 
    {      
        size += fi.Length;    
    }
    // Add subdirectory sizes.
    DirectoryInfo[] dis = d.GetDirectories();
    foreach (DirectoryInfo di in dis) 
    {
        size += DirSize(di);   
    }
    return size;  
}

You would call with the root as:

Console.WriteLine("The size is {0} bytes.", DirSize(new DirectoryInfo(targetFolder));

…where targetFolder is the folder-size to calculate.

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