Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Xinorbis: Hard core hard drive analyzer
by Brad Linder Jan 4th 2008 at 5:00PM
For example, not only does Xinorbis analyze all of the files on your hard drive, but it will actually sort them into categories like music/sound, movies, programs, graphics, and system files. You can view the results in a pie or bar chart. And you can customize Xinorbis to show files by frequency or size. You can also compare two different hard drives.
Depending on your hard drive size and how many files you've got, it can take a while to run Xinorbis, and it may seem to be unresponsive, but don't give up hope. Odds are it's still working. For ease of use, we still like WinDirStat, but Xinorbis looks like a great tool to have for detailed disk space analysis.
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Bruno Padinha said 6:21PM on 1-04-2008
Haven't tried it yet, but doesn't WinDirStat extension summary do a similar job of telling you the categories of files taking more space?
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Claude said 8:30AM on 1-05-2008
Just tried it.
Unfortunately you cannot delete the files directly from Xinorbis, whereas WinDirStat allows it. Or may be I did not find the 'delete' option. :)
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Jason said 11:26AM on 1-05-2008
The only app I've found in a long time that freezes my computer.
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Dylan said 3:22PM on 1-05-2008
A good app to measure/analyze hard drive space for OS X is called WhatSize
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/
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kojo87 said 4:13PM on 1-05-2008
im gonna try this. my 320GB only has about 20% left
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kojo87 said 5:43PM on 1-05-2008
and it locked up my system. im gonna try WinDirStat instead
mmmork said 3:41PM on 1-07-2008
If you want lightweight old-school check sequoiaview http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//
This didn't freeze my machine, but it's bloody heavy and slow. Nice enough, but I'll stick with little 'n light.
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AOL-my-crater said 9:29AM on 1-06-2008
Hmmm... I like it. Smart, effective and enough speedy program. No problms. Thanks to author!
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Bakkman said 8:11AM on 1-10-2008
All I got while trying to scan was an "Integer overflow" error message.
personally I use Scanner. Not heavy with the features, but works great for me.
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/scn2.zip
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