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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7-24-2006 @ 1:09PM
Andy said...
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!
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7-24-2006 @ 1:20PM
Joshua said...
Spacemonger seems to be the Disk Inventory X for Windows.
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7-24-2006 @ 1:40PM
Carl Rudy said...
A little program named Space Monger ( http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html) has been a friend of mine on Windows.
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7-24-2006 @ 1:53PM
James said...
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/
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7-24-2006 @ 1:58PM
Anthony said...
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?)
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7-24-2006 @ 2:01PM
chuk said...
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
SequoiaView is another one for windows.
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7-24-2006 @ 2:11PM
madhu Venkatesan said...
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7-24-2006 @ 4:04PM
Robert said...
I second the use of SpaceMonger because it leaves a very small footprint to run.
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7-24-2006 @ 4:42PM
HardwareGuy said...
That big red area is what I like to call porn.
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7-25-2006 @ 9:17AM
ZipperSeven said...
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...)
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7-25-2006 @ 12:55PM
cw said...
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.
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