gHacks technology news » folder-size http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Used Hard Drive Space by Folder http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/04/used-hard-drive-space-by-folder/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/04/used-hard-drive-space-by-folder/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 09:21:46 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4002 Windows does not display folder sizes in Windows Explorer, actually those sizes are not displayed anywhere in Windows. Treesize is a solution for those users who want to find out which folders occupy the most space on their hard drives without having to install a permanent solution, like Folder Size, that slows down Windows Explorer. The software analyzes the folder structure in the background which means that it is possible to take a look at partial results during the scan and that the computer is not slowed down by that process. This is one of the biggest advantage over other applications that provide this functionality. Some use so many system resources that it’s virtually impossible to work with the PC during the scan.

Treesize is partition based which means that it scans the selected partition and displays the folders of that partition in a tree view sorted by the size of the files contained in the folder and possible subfolders. A plus in front of a folder means that subfolders exist. All subfolders can be expanded as well so that the user can see which subfolder of the current folder occupies most of the space on that partition.

A right-click menu is offered that provides several interesting features. It is possible to expand all folders in the selected structure and display a folder count. Explore opens a new Windows Explorer window of the select folder which makes it easy to delete files that are no longer needed.

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Another interesting option is to switch between several folder size views. The default view displays the size of the folders. Other available views are a file count which displays the folders with the most files on top, a cluster size view and the size in percentages. Items can be sorted by name or size and the values can be either shown in Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes or custom metrics.

Treesize is one of those programs that you run from time to time when hard drive or partition space is getting low. Compatible to Windows 95 to Windows Vista.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/04/used-hard-drive-space-by-folder/feed/ 2 Check the size of your folders http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/03/check-the-size-of-your-folders/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/03/check-the-size-of-your-folders/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:47:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/03/check-the-size-of-your-folders/ I was running the Folder Size open source program from sourceforge for some time which had a great functionality but stressed my system a lot during size calculations of all folders. This was extremely annoying when I was opening folders in explorer that were having many subfolders and files in them. It took some time and slowed down my system. I therefor uninstalled Folder Size again and decided to look out for a program that would display the folder size only if I would request the information.

I managed to find a free software that would do exactly what I needed. It is called Folder Size as well which could lead to some confusion. The biggest advantage is that it displays the size of the folders only if you run the application which can slow down the system as well but only at this time and not constantly. So, you double-click a drive or folder and Folder Size calculates the size of all folders and subfolders. You can then switch between folders to display the site of its subfolders as well.

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The software is pretty easy to use. One nice feature is the so called filter list which can filter for special file types only. If you wanted for instance to only see the biggest folders that contain mp3 files or temp files you would simply use one of the many filters that are available there. You can edit the existing filters to add new file types to the filter or create new ones by editing the FolderSizeFilters textfile. Just add a new line at the end and add some filetypes to it.

Folder Size does not need to be installed, just run it from any location. The size of the application is only 300 K, works in Windows XP. Not sure about other operating systems. The developer does not mention the supported operating systems on the site.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/03/check-the-size-of-your-folders/feed/ 2 Reduce the folder size of Thunderbird http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/04/reduce-the-folder-size-of-thunderbird/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/04/reduce-the-folder-size-of-thunderbird/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:03:02 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/04/reduce-the-folder-size-of-thunderbird/ I experienced some troubles installing files on my system and discovered that my partition with Windows was having only 50 megabytes of free space. This was astonishing because it is a 10 gigabyte partition with only Windows and some tools that occupy no more than 3 gigabytes. A quick check revealed that the mail folders from Thunderbird would occupy more than 3 gigabytes of space in the application data folder on the partition.

The folder size of my Inbox for instance with 100 mails was more than 500 megabytes which could not be true at all. I remembered that Thunderbird did not delete the mails even though they would have been deleted in the trash. This was the cause for the discrepancy between the meager amount of mails and their size and the big huge mail folders on my c: partition.

The solution nevertheless is pretty easy. All that needs to be done is compact the folders which removes all deleted mails immediately. I was able to reduce the folder size of my Thunderbird folders from more than 3 gigabytes to 300.000 kilobytes freeing up valuable disk space on my main partition.

Just right-click a folder and select compact this folder to remove all deleted emails and keep only emails that are visible in Thunderbird. You could check the Disk Space option to automatically compact folders if that saves a defined amount of kilobytes. (You find the option under the advanced tab and offline & disk space tab in the Thunderbird options).

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/04/reduce-the-folder-size-of-thunderbird/feed/ 6 Folder Size Freeware http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/07/folder-size-freeware/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/07/folder-size-freeware/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:32:49 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=270 Folder Size is a nice little freeware application that adds a new column to the details view of your windows explorer displaying the size of every folder that exists in the current directory. Its mighty helpful if you want to clean your hard drive. It shows exactly which folders contain the biggest files and its always a good idea to start cleaning there.]]> Folder Size is a nice little freeware application that adds a new column to the details view of your windows explorer displaying the size of every folder that exists in the current directory. Its mighty helpful if you want to clean your hard drive. It shows exactly which folders contain the biggest files and its always a good idea to start cleaning there.

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