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Graphically view your disk space usage with Filelight
Filelight is a Linux utility that creates a concentric graph of your computer's disk usage. Each color represents a different type of file, such as documents or apps, so it's easy to tell which is the biggest bully on the block. I found a utility like this for Mac OS X over on TUAW by the name of Disk Inventory X - has anyone seen a similar app for Windows?
No specific OS flavor is required, though Qt 3.2 and KDE 3.2 are. Filelight is available from MethyBlue and is released under the GNU General Public License.
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Subscribe to commentsAndyJul 24th 2006 1:09PM
I use a program called windirstat ( http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/ ) which does pretty much the same thing on Windows. Very useful for weeding out huge files which I'd forgotten were there and eating up space!
JoshuaJul 24th 2006 1:20PM
Spacemonger seems to be the Disk Inventory X for Windows.
Carl RudyJul 24th 2006 1:40PM
A little program named Space Monger ( http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html) has been a friend of mine on Windows.
JamesJul 24th 2006 1:53PM
JDiskReport is a nice little java-based, multi-platform freeware app that uses the same radial visualization, as well as a selection of other viewing and sorting methods.
it's served me very well finding not just individual memory hogging files, but also the folders filled with innumerable itty bitty files that are so hard to track down in windows...
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/
AnthonyJul 24th 2006 1:58PM
WinDirStat is better than SpaceMonger for a couple reasons (1. Unicode support. 2. Reads "size on disk", not "size of file", which may be important if you have compressed files.).
However, I know of 3 apps on Windows that can do the concentric ring visualization:
1. OverDisk (http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html)
2. Scanner (http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/)
3. TreePie (http://sourceforge.net/projects/treepie/)
(NB: Only 3 URLs? WTF? Is this some kind of anti-spam thing?)
chukJul 24th 2006 2:01PM
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
SequoiaView is another one for windows.
madhu VenkatesanJul 24th 2006 2:11PM
try toniarts easy cleaner
http://www.toniarts.com/product_details.php?PHPSESSID=eca4f20d581de4e0ad6c1d883e9516a9&prod_id=1
RobertJul 24th 2006 4:04PM
I second the use of SpaceMonger because it leaves a very small footprint to run.
HardwareGuyJul 24th 2006 4:42PM
That big red area is what I like to call porn.
ZipperSevenJul 25th 2006 9:17AM
Disk Inventory X reminds me of SequoiaView for Windows. Actually I wish that there was an OS X app that did the same kind of graphing as Filelight (maybe I can compile it...)
cwJul 25th 2006 12:55PM
There is a Windows program that is *exactly* like this but I'll be damned if I can remember what it's called.
I had it once but it went away after a disk crash.