# Size of a folder

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/size-of-a-folder/216617
**Category:** random
**Created:** [February 19, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/size-of-a-folder/216617 "2007-02-19T01:13:02Z")
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### Author: ![kdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/size-of-a-folder/216617/1 "2007-02-19T01:13:02Z")

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What is the size of one folder? I know explorer says 0 bytes, but I really don’t think so. Folder is more like a pointer to a some data on the disk, so it has to, at least, take one byte (for the pointer).

Can anyone please clarify? Thanks.