Click Options and then click Files highlighting and sort groups.If you use Far Manager, you can highlight such files: The view will display all files with zero size: Yet you can use search to find files with size of 0: Enter size:=0 I'm pretty sure there's no way to render files with 0 bytes size in different color in File Explorer, unless you implement a custom IShellView. In fact, Multi Commander already comes with a color-filter rule for empty files built-in!įigure 1: XYplorer’s color-filter editor (only accepts filename patterns)įigure 2: Q-Dir’s file-coloring (only by file-name and read-only attribute)įigure 3: Directory Opus has limited file-coloringįigure 4: Far Manager with zero-byte files coloredįigure 5: Multi Commander with zero-byte files colored They too take feature-requests, but that’s not necessary because it already supports file-coloring ( as of 3.5) according to several factors (figure 5). You can create a color-filter via F9→ Options→ Files highlighting and sort groups to highlight zero-byte files (figure 4). If that is acceptable, then it has exactly what you want. ☆ Far Manager is a free console file manager (like the command-prompt) which means it is text-based. (It looks like you can only color columns.) Of course if they it doesn’t, then you can request the feature. Plus, it’s not clear whether you can specify trigger values for those file properties. Plus, Q-Dir is free.ĭirectory Opus supports file-coloring (figure 3) according to any property of the file, but it’s not free.

Q-Dir supports file-coloring as well (figure 2), but it too only supports filtering by name (as well as for read-only files). However, they take feature-requests, so you could ask them to implement a size-based color filter. XYplorer supports coloring files (figure 1), but currently only by name.

If you are open to using alternate shells, then there are a several options: Unfortunately there don’t seem to be any existing shell-extensions for Explorer to control the colors of files and folders.

Xyplorer color filters