Software to view Hard Drive Space?

[RobFrain]

Hi

 

A few years ago I was given a piece of freeware which I thought was excellent but now can’t find it anywhere or remember what it was called.

 

Basically you installed it and it scanned your hard drive and showed in boxes on a screen the size of the folders in relation to how many GB was in each one. It just made things so easy. I'm currently hunting on our server where someone has managed to take up about 20GB of disc space. I just can’t find it! My guess is someone with a lovely 12MP camera has stuck her photos somewhere!!

 

Anyone have any ideas or seen something that resembles what I'm talking about?!?!

[docboggle]

Possibly Treesize Free

http://download.cnet.com/TreeSize-Free/3000-2248_4-81064.html?tag=mncol

[RingOfFlame]

WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

[mac_shinobi]

WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

 

Not sure if anyone will know but is there anything like this for OS X leopard / snow leopard etc that will give me an over view of a hard drive etc

[keithu]

Not sure if anyone will know but is there anything like this for OS X leopard / snow leopard etc that will give me an over view of a hard drive etc

 

Disk Inventory X

[srochford]

jdiskreport - JDiskReport

[AngryTechnician]

The one you describe sounds like WinDirStat, which RingOfFlame mentioned above. While we're listing some alternatives, I quite like HDGraph.

[SimpleSi]

I had a nice simple one in Win98 days that I can't remember the name bit it started with a D i think.

 

I liked it cause it quickly showed a pie chart and then you just drilled down to see where the big files were hiding.

 

Can't find it now

 

regards

 

Simon

[SimpleSi]

Found it buried in an old pendrive backup folder

 

Disktective

 

regards

 

Simon

Still works on XP

[SpuffMonkey]

I think you're after the very lovely Sequoiaview

 

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven: Info SequoiaView

[ninjabeaver]

jdiskreport - JDiskReport

 

Deffo this one. Rocks.

[chazzy2501]

As Recommended by Steve Gibson:

 

SpaceMonger v1.4.0

 

Download (under free software)

[danrhodes]

Was just guna say Space Monger is the one you want!!

[bossman]

Ditto here:

 

Sixty-Five

[enjay]

Treesize Free only works on local drives, though - try MemeCode - i.Disk which is also free and can scan network drives.

[OutToLunch]

As Recommended by Steve Gibson:

 

After the "THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!" incident over raw sockets, I wouldn't trust Steve Gibson to recommend me shoelaces let alone software Does look quite handy though - I've been using SpaceSniffer, find lost disk space the easy way. lately which is pretty speedy and has a great drill down system...

[Cools]

Hard Core people use dir /s lol

[machin05]

Hard Core people use dir /s lol

 

Where can I download that from?!?

[srochford]

Hard Core people use dir /s lol

 

With a bit of perl to produce a nice summary, sorted so you can quickly see the big space hogs :-)

 

Forgot to say yesterday but the nice thing about JDiskreport is that it's in Java so it's pretty much multi-platform - means you don't have to learn new ways of working for each machine you use or, to quote the web site "This is ad-free uncrippled no-charge binary multi-platform software that never expires." which sounds good to me!

[BJG]

...found free Treesize too limited, so have been using Windirstat. But it's a bit dull, so I might try that SpaceSniffer thing. This dude prefers it.

 

Best Free Disk Space Analyzer