Space

Overview

The Space view shows what takes up room on your server: the total size of your site, how much each type of file takes, and the largest folders and files. The same measurements give the size and the number of files of each folder in the file list, and the total in the WordPress toolbar.

DooFiles measures your folders in the background, in short rounds, so your site does not slow down.

Open the Space view

Click Space in the folder panel. Its button also shows the total size of your site.

[SCREENSHOT_HERE: The Space view with the total size, the bar by type of file, the largest folders, the largest files and the trash and backups]

What the Space view shows

Below the title, DooFiles shows when the last full scan finished: Last full scan: Oct 24, 2026, 9:30.

Largest folders and Largest files are two tabs below the breakdown by type, each with the number of rows it shows. Click a tab, or use the arrow keys, to switch between them.

Click a folder in Largest folders to open it in the file list, or a file in Largest files to open its folder with the file highlighted.

Integrity

Each time DooFiles measures your folders, it also checks that the files of WordPress, of your plugins and of the products of Doothemes are the original ones, and shows the result in the Integrity tab. When something does not match, the tab shows the number of files in red and lists each file that was modified, is missing or should not be there, with what to do.

See File integrity.

Folder sizes in the file list

The Size and Files columns of the file list show, for each folder, how much it takes and how many files it contains, counting everything inside it. They come from the same measurements.

Until the first scan finishes, these columns may be empty.

How the measurement stays up to date

DooFiles keeps its measurements in a small index, so it does not have to go through your folders every time you open one:

• Every day, it measures your folders again, in the background. You can turn this off with Measure the folders every day, in the Space card of DooFiles › Files.
• Scan now starts a new measurement right away. While it runs, the view shows how many folders are done and how many are left: Measuring folders: 120 done, 35 to go. You can keep working.
• When you change files with DooFiles, such as uploading, deleting or moving, it measures that folder again and updates the totals right away.

Changes made in other ways, such as by FTP, by a plugin or by WordPress updates, show up after the next scan.

A scan runs in short rounds, and continues on its own if it is interrupted. You can keep working in DooFiles, or close the page, while it runs.

What is not counted

• Anything outside the folder of WordPress, and shortcuts (symbolic links) that point to other places on your server.
• The private folder of DooFiles: the Trash, the backups and the thumbnails appear apart, in DooFiles data.
• Folders that the server does not let DooFiles read. The view tells you how many: 2 folders could not be read and are not counted.
• A folder too large to measure in the time your server allows, such as a cache folder with hundreds of thousands of files. If the scan stops twice in the same folder, DooFiles skips it so the scan can finish, counts it among the folders that could not be read, and notes it in Activity as Skipped a folder too large to measure. The next scan tries it again.

The view reminds you: Sizes count what is inside the WordPress folder, without following links. The DooFiles trash, backups and thumbnails are counted apart.

The total in the WordPress toolbar

The folder in the WordPress toolbar shows the total size of your site, and opens the file manager. Before the first scan, or without an active license, it reads Files.

[SCREENSHOT_HERE: The WordPress toolbar with the DooFiles folder and the total size of the site]

Troubleshooting

Need more help? Open a support ticket.