No matter what hard drive size you have, if you spend a lot of time on your computer, you will fill it up eventually. A lot of times I have 1Gb stuff which I don’t need and can safely throw out, I just never bump into these because they are outside my normal file browsing habits. If you want to save some space by deleting the larges unwanted files, or just want a cool way to visualize your hard drive, give SpaceSniffer a go.
With no install needed, just run it, select a drive and watch as the table structure fills up with folders and sub-folders. You can double click on any folder to bring it into main view (cool animation here), so you can see more detail. If you’ve zoomed in on a folder you can click the name again to zoom back out, or you can use the forward and back buttons like on a browser.
There are options to show unknown space, free space, but apart from that this app is a simple hard drive space analyzer, but a really very well made one. It is beautiful, it is elegant and it gives you the information you need in a form very easily digested by the human mind. I simply love this app, if you can and you like it too, please consider donating to them. (via Freeware Genius)
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This tool is like a plague. :) I estimate in a week I won’t have any blogs that hadn’t blogged about it left in my subscriptions.
WinDirStat will do the same thing.
The visualization on this is much better than windirstat’s. :)
Nice program! Thanks!
The only thing that I miss in such tool description and which is definitely missing in them is the information about can the unwanted files be deleted, or not. :)
Yes, this time they can – via Explorer-like menu.