'Electron + NodeJs: fs.statSync() file size is always 0

I'm developing a Electron app and i need to access a file's size. I'm using fs.statSync() to accomplish this. My issue is that the fs.statSync() stats.size is always 0 (zero).

Here's how i'm getting the file size:

var stats = fs.statSync(filePath);
var fileSize = stats.size; //file size is always 0
console.log("fileSize: " + fileSize);

The Stats detailed object data:

Stats {dev: 1584160373, mode: 33206, nlink: 1, uid: 0, gid: 0…}
atime: Wed Oct 18 2017 23:39:53 GMT+0100 (GMT Summer Time)
birthtime: Wed Oct 18 2017 23:10:50 GMT+0100 (GMT Summer Time)
blksize: undefined
blocks: undefined
ctime: Thu Oct 19 2017 00:35:33 GMT+0100 (GMT Summer Time)
dev: 1584160373
gid: 0
ino: 8444249301430590
mode: 33206
mtime: Thu Oct 19 2017 00:35:33 GMT+0100 (GMT Summer Time)
nlink: 1
rdev: 0
size: 0
uid: 0

What am i doing wrong here? Btw, i'm using Windows 10 x64.

UPDATE: I solved my issue. The problem wasn't with fs.statSync(), but instead with the files (they were all 0 in size). Rookie mistake, my bad... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Solution 1:[1]

A folder has no size, the files in the folder do. You could walk recursive through all files and subfolders to collect each filesize. Or use a package like 'get-folder-size' for that.

If you are only running on windows or linux, you could try to get the folder size from a native program like du -ksh path/to/folder which will be faster to some degree.

Solution 2:[2]

You may want to determine if any other functions are taking up reading and writing of the file

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