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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64

Space Sniffer is a drive space analyzer with a dash of eye candy


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]

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Freeware, Windows x64

Analyze drive space usage on Windows or Mac with JDiskReport



There are plenty of free drive space analyzers out there - like WinDirStat, for example. If you like visuals that are a bit more subtle, give JDiskReport a try.

After the initial scan (which can take a minute or two on drives as cluttered and full as my C:), several reports are generated. You can view distribution by size, file type, and modification date, or browse a top 50 list to find your biggest space hogs quickly.

I did experience a momentary hang when switching to the ring chart in one particularly massive directory, but other than that the program worked very well. The standard pie chart, bar chart, and file views all worked without hanging.

It's freeware for Windows (x64 as well) and Mac, and is also available as a Java Web Start app.

[ via Life Rocks 2.0 ]

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