Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64
Space Sniffer is a drive space analyzer with a dash of eye candy
by Lee Mathews Apr 23rd 2009 at 5:00PM
We've looked at ways to visualize your disk usage before with apps like WinDirStat, JDiskReport and Xinorbis. Space Sniffer offers the same functionality with a little bit of a twist.
Files and folders are displayed as boxes of various sizes which correspond to the file size. The color scheme is customizable, and Space Sniffer features subtle transition and hover effects. That doesn't make it function any better, of course, but a little eye candy never hurts - and it's always welcome on boring old utilities like a disk analyzer.
If you're overwelmed (or underwhelmed, for that matter) by the number of boxes presented, simply click the more/less detail buttons to adjust the display the way you want. A zoomed-out view lets you quickly locate large folders, while zooming in will give you a better feel for individual files. There's also a quick filter option to limit what's displayed in the main window.
Space Sniffer is also a great addition to your flash drive - it's totally portable and just under 900Kb in size.
[via Freeware Files]
Files and folders are displayed as boxes of various sizes which correspond to the file size. The color scheme is customizable, and Space Sniffer features subtle transition and hover effects. That doesn't make it function any better, of course, but a little eye candy never hurts - and it's always welcome on boring old utilities like a disk analyzer.
If you're overwelmed (or underwhelmed, for that matter) by the number of boxes presented, simply click the more/less detail buttons to adjust the display the way you want. A zoomed-out view lets you quickly locate large folders, while zooming in will give you a better feel for individual files. There's also a quick filter option to limit what's displayed in the main window.
Space Sniffer is also a great addition to your flash drive - it's totally portable and just under 900Kb in size.
[via Freeware Files]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Toby Adams said 6:13PM on 4-23-2009
Mac?
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Xell said 6:37PM on 4-23-2009
I don't think it's pretty enough :P
Conda said 6:41PM on 4-23-2009
holy crap, awesome! been needing something like this so i could see why my notebook's drive was always sitting in the red zone for free space, cleared up a TON of crap that didnt uninstall properly
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ehewlett said 6:48PM on 4-23-2009
Not sure how it compares in terms of performance, but my tool of choice to do this - with even more eye-candy - is SequoiaView (http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/), and has been for quite a long time...
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Jaffarn said 9:04PM on 4-23-2009
Space monger is similar although is does it in about 100kb :D
http://download.cnet.com/SpaceMonger/3000-2248_4-10050288.html
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sitruc said 1:14AM on 4-24-2009
I was carrying old/hacked versions of SpaceMonger on all of my thumbdrives until a few months ago when I erased most of them and then couldn't remember the names of the programs that did the job and then eventually stopped caring. SpaceMonger jumped the shark when they charged for their last version. I'll give this a try. I was never a fan of SequiaView because it required an install.
Kenn.keeper said 8:57PM on 4-23-2009
I must be having a serious senior moment, how do you customize the color scheme.......
Kenn.....
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Kenn.keeper said 9:00PM on 4-23-2009
Sorry forgot,,,,,using Vista x64
njd said 10:23PM on 4-23-2009
this looks like windirstat with a different color scheme.....
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mrchips_rsm said 5:52AM on 4-24-2009
This type of visualization is called "Squarified Cushion Tree Maps" and is very useful for visualizing relative sizing of any kind of hierarchical data (of which files and folders on a disk volume are the classic example).
I'm afraid that this app is still not as useful or as cool looking as the original app that was written for this: SequoiaView. You can find that (free) app here: http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//
I've been using SequoiaView for years and it has never failed me. Take a look at it and see for yourselves...
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Peter said 8:13AM on 4-24-2009
I've been using Sequoia View for ages as well. One of the great things about Sequoia View is that like Space Sniffer (but unlike most similar apps) it doesn't require installation. It's great for finding out where all that space on your servers is going without having to install anything on them.
I tried this and still prefer Sequoia View, SV also seems faster.
wanye said 7:53AM on 4-24-2009
another vote for sequoiaview here. been using it for years now, and looks way nicer than space sniffer
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Brian! said 10:52AM on 4-24-2009
You guys drive me nuts. Every time you report on a dive space visualizer program someone (including myself) mentions SpaceMonger. It is one of (if not) the best little program for doing just that. This app is almost a total knockoff of SpaceMonger that I still think is a better and smaller app.
Yet, although we keep speaking up about it, you continue to leave it out of your list of apps for directory visualization.
So, go to your bank, withdraw a clue and pick up a copy of spacemonger - you'll enjoy it.
And if your Mac... well, I have yet to find a simple and easy of a program to visualize my hard drive data to figure out what to delete.
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Ian Perez said 2:47PM on 4-24-2009
I still prefer OverDisk, which I don't think anybody else ever mentions. Check it out here:
http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html
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Hartford said 7:32AM on 5-31-2009
This was really interesting. And usefull. Got rid of bunch of useless windows crap. And found my lost pictures accidentally deleted; without going through lots of geekey crap. I figured out how to make it hot pink and apple green. Useful and fun. Be sure and read the information carefully and dig in.
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