File.GetCompressedSize Method (String)

FileGetCompressedSize Method (String)

[AlphaFS] Retrieves the actual number of bytes of disk storage used to store a specified file.

Namespace: Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem
Assembly: AlphaFS (in AlphaFS.dll) Version: 2.0

Syntax

public static long GetCompressedSize(
	string path
)

Public Shared Function GetCompressedSize ( 
	path As String
) As Long

public:
static long long GetCompressedSize(
	String^ path
)

static member GetCompressedSize : 
        path : string -> int64

Parameters

path: Type: SystemString
The name of the file.

Return Value

Type: Int64
The actual number of bytes of disk storage used to store the specified file.

Remarks

If the file is located on a volume that supports compression and the file is compressed, the value obtained is the compressed size of the specified file. If the file is located on a volume that supports sparse files and the file is a sparse file, the value obtained is the sparse size of the specified file.

Reference

File Class

GetCompressedSize Overload

Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem Namespace