I’ve recently been going through a series of “panic modes” over the last couple of weeks because my main 80 gig drive has been getting full. Repeatedly. I never thought I’d fill the 80, but I have… more than once.
I went looking for software to search for large files and found that most of the “good stuff” is commercial. However, a fella in Italy has written a clever open source program called Treepie. At first glance you will look at the output and think “What the hell does THAT mean?” but once you start running your mouse over the output you will see how he’s organized things and it makes a lot of sense.
It’s not the fastest or the slickest program in the world, but it’s free and it gets the job done. It helped me find a folder off my root directory where I had forgotten to delete a number of ummm *cough* DVD images *cough*. Data, of course.
Might I also suggest SequoiaView? The output is MUCH prettier: My HD @ Work. The large orange ones are all ISOs, green is MP3, the big pink ones in the middle are MS Virtual Machine hard disk image files, yellow is for DLL, and teal is EXEs. You can add/remove whatever file extensions you want and give them custom colors. Pretty sweet I think.
Justin Moore
July 20th, 2006
discussion and comparision here,
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3822519
treepie & winsstatdir
July 21st, 2006