For a long time I’ve stored image files on my hard drive in daily subfolders, which are themselves inside DVD-sized folders – “buckets” in Kroghspeak. The idea is that these buckets are then backed up to corresponding DVDs, sequentially-numbered, so one can easily reconstruct the folder system after a crash and without depending on any proprietary backup software. In this system, you often need to check if  you’ve accumulated enough files to burn a DVD and start another bucket. The problem is, Lightroom doesn’t show how many megabytes you’re wrestling with, and you have to flip over to Explorer/Finder.

That’s not the only reason why I sometimes want to know the size of a group of files, but it’s frequent enough to irritate me (thought it doesn’t take much).

So I wrote a little Lua plug-in FolderSize (zip file) to help do the job. Select some images in Grid, choose Library > Plug In Extras > Size and count, and this little dialog box appears.

The plug-in is free, but you can always say thanks via Amazon.