Visualize your hard drive consumption with SpaceSniffer

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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Tags: hard-drive, system tools
Categories: Tools, Uncategorized, software

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5 Responses to “Visualize your hard drive consumption with SpaceSniffer”

1. Rarst says:

   April 27, 2009 at 2:56 am

   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.

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2. Bill says:

   April 27, 2009 at 6:59 pm

   WinDirStat will do the same thing.

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3. MKR says:

   April 28, 2009 at 4:49 pm

   The visualization on this is much better than windirstat’s. :)

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4. Roman ShaRP says:

   May 28, 2009 at 9:51 pm

   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.

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