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DriveSpacio Finds What's Filling Up Your Hard Drive
Posted by Adam Pash at 7:50 AM on May 13, 2008
Windows only: Analyse your hard drive usage and find out what's eating up your disk space with freeware application DriveSpacio. Similar to previously mentioned WinDirStat, DriveSpacio sets itself apart with a different approach to displaying your drive usage. Many users will likely prefer the bar graphs and pie charts of DriveSpacio to WinDirStat, but the biggest drawback is that—unlike WinDirStat—it doesn't currently allow you to directly delete or launch a folder from within its interface. That means that once you find something you want to delete, you still have to navigate to it manually in Explorer to delete it. Regardless, the freeware, Windows only DirveSpacio is a great alternative when you're looking to visualise your hard drive usage. Mac users, check out previously mentioned GrandPerspective.
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Thomas
Posted May 13, 2008 8:30 PM
Nice GUI, but big draw back for me is that you can't directly delete the files.
idodialog
Posted May 14, 2008 12:57 AM
er Xinorbis does it all every which way for free.
http://www.freshney.org/xinorbis/index.htm
tempor2001
Posted November 12, 2008 5:12 AM
SpaceMonger is great utility to analyze what and where is on your disks
http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/
pinzerbib
Posted 8:22 AM 13/5/08
I prefer i disk from memecode [www.memecode.com] and its portable
pinzerbib
floatinglist
Posted 8:20 AM 13/5/08
There seem to be many apps that look at drive space usage. JDiskReport is a cross-platform tool that can be added to the long list seen on the comments, but it seems to just be free rather than Free and open source.
floatinglist
ChristopherG
Posted 9:40 AM 13/5/08
I've used SequioaView for a long time and its free.
[w3.win.tue.nl]
ChristopherG
glitch1138
Posted 9:21 AM 13/5/08
I still use spacemonger ([www.sixty-five.cc]) which allows direct deleting.
glitch1138
Darkmatter91
Posted 10:23 AM 13/5/08
treesize forever
[www.jam-software.com]
Darkmatter91
AndyMan1
Posted 10:12 AM 13/5/08
Second on JDiskReport. Does exactly what I want, no more, no less. Fantastic program.
AndyMan1
aj_robins
Posted 10:53 AM 13/5/08
windirstat for me.
It's portable, free, allows direct deleting, and has a tree-oriented usage display (like a barchart), as well as a graphical one. The graphical one takes a moment to figure out, but it's a lot more powerful than a trivial piechart.
aj_robins
klumsy
Posted 11:18 AM 13/5/08
foldersize does the job well for me.
[www.rotebetasoftware.net]
klumsy
yochanan_marqos
Posted 11:36 AM 13/5/08
I still swear by Scanner. Simple pie graph, yet has enough features to be satisfied.
yochanan_marqos
joelena
Posted 12:57 PM 13/5/08
Of all of the programs like this that I've tried, SpaceMonger scans the fastest and has my favorite simple graphical proportional grid representation. Plus you can zoom in on folders and delete files. Newer versions are shareware and have to be installed, but the Portable Freeware Collection has a link to a no-install free version:
[www.portablefreeware.com]
WinDirStat's biggest bonus is the configurable coloration by file type and the dual view of directory trees with percentages above the proportional grid.
joelena
illfatedpupulon
Posted 1:49 PM 13/5/08
@yochanan_marqos: Agreed, I have been using scanner since '01 and I lament that there isn't an equivalent for the mac.
illfatedpupulon
ultrasur1
Posted 2:46 PM 13/5/08
mac osx users should check out disk inventory x. helped me find stuff i forgot, overlooked or didn't even need. freed up lots of valuable space.
ultrasur1
Ortzinator
Posted 3:14 PM 13/5/08
@Dan: Not really.
Ortzinator
Dan
Posted 2:48 PM 13/5/08
"Regardless, the freeware, Windows only DirveSpacio..."
A typo :$
Dan
nka
Posted 3:45 PM 13/5/08
The best app that I have used for this purpose is called Spacemonger. It is lightweight, and presents a visual representation of your hard drives. Check it out at: [www.sixty-five.cc]
[www.sixty-five.cc]
nka
exfrog
Posted 4:32 PM 13/5/08
I've always loved JDiskReport
[www.jgoodies.com]
exfrog
Lazarus
Posted 6:23 PM 13/5/08
+1 for WinDirStat. I can take a quick look at whats using up a lot of my drive space (usually some kinda media)
Lazarus
Will
Posted 7:25 PM 13/5/08
I have to third JDiskReport, multi-os, and you can run even run it from the web.
[www.jgoodies.com]
Will
rmagere
Posted 7:54 PM 13/5/08
@Darkmatter91:
Treesize for me too
rmagere
antman70
Posted 8:57 PM 13/5/08
Treesize and DiskPieView freeware for me. (But I'm tryin' this one too!)
antman70
abyzmal
Posted 12:23 AM 14/5/08
@yochanan_marqos: I've always liked Scanner too. Dead simple and has great drill-down functionality. Linux users can also use Filelight for KDE or Baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer) which comes built in to Gnome 2.4.2 and higher (as part of the gnome-utils package).
abyzmal
JerryA
Posted 1:16 AM 14/5/08
Spacemonger is on every computer I own but there are some nice ones here i this thread I would love to check out.
JerryA
testAnt
Posted 12:52 AM 14/5/08
i use OverDisk for a long time:
[users.forthnet.gr]
Small ,fast and works on Vista too.
It's the best one and I think I've tried most of them that are mentioned on this thread.
[users.forthnet.gr]
testAnt
Mersine
Posted 2:10 AM 14/5/08
amust diskcleaner is the best. Clean, easy, and useful.
[www.amustsoft.com]
Mersine
philosopher_dog
Posted 4:43 AM 14/5/08
Wow. What a waste of time these dedicated apps are. Another piece of crap to install and wonder whether it's going to cause problems. The solution is so simple. You should be using Copernic anyway since it's hands down the best search engine going. Just click on all files and go to whatever directory you want and just click the file size tab to order your files by size. You can preview, play, etc all of the files as well. You could also just focus on files of a particular type or in a particular directory. There's no way any of those programs listed above comes close to this power. It's free, slim, stable and brilliant.
philosopher_dog
busbodger
Posted 6:23 AM 14/5/08
For you Linux fans there is FileLight. If there is another alternative in Linux please share...
busbodger
Brad.Taylor
Posted 10:50 PM 13/5/08
I've only ever used VisDir, works well for me, no install required.
[www.sb-software.com]
Seems we need a Hive Five for this one.
Brad.Taylor