TreeSize Free is a handy little program that tells you where all your disk space has gone. This is great if you are running out of disk space or planning a format and want to know where all your data is on your hard drive. You can scan entire drives at once or a particular folder (and it’s sub-folders) just by right-clicking on the folder and picking TreeSize Free from the menu. Results can be sorted according to size or name and sizes can be listed by percentage or space-used (in KB, MB or GB). Folders can be expanded in the results view just like in Windows Explorer, so you get a full view of which folders are really taking up all that space.
This is the free version of TreeSize (the paid version includes extra features such as 3D graphs, last access dates and owners of files as well as scanning network drives) and works on Windows 9x/2000/XP/Vista. Using TreeSize Free is a great way to do some spring cleaning on your PC
11 Mar 08
6:43 am
50MB hard drive with windows installed? Seems like one gem of a program.
11 Mar 08
9:51 am
It’s 50 gigabytes. The commas are a bit unclear in that picture but they are thousands separators not decimal points.
11 Mar 08
10:26 am
pwned, its 50 gb, fail
11 Mar 08
11:28 am
windirstat is much better in my opinion
11 Mar 08
2:08 pm
Nice suggestion Patrick. I am trying it out now, looks pretty good. Will write up a review later this week.
12 Mar 08
12:31 am
In about half of the world “.” is the three-digit separator, and “,” is the decimal separator. So it’s actually a 49999 MB
12 Mar 08
8:13 am
Half German half English lol nice
12 Mar 08
3:42 pm
Yep, the program comes in both languages. English is the default but “Treesize displays German menus if “German” is selected in the control panel” - from the TreeSize ReadMe file.
12 Mar 08
4:46 pm
I second Patrick’s comment. WinDirStat is much more useful for tracking down where your files are and visualizes file sizes and types fantastically. I found files I hadn’t seen in 4 years on my own comp!
17 Mar 08
4:48 pm
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19 Mar 08
7:00 am
http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//
+ better/easier (actually visualizes the amount of disk space files and directories are taking up)
+ free (without needing to advertise it in it’s name)
+ from a reliable source (a dutch university)
19 Mar 08
9:28 am
If you like SequoiaView, then you should check out WinDirStat - http://www.stufftoget.net/windirstat/ - it has the TreeMap feature plus a few extra ones, it’s also still being worked on and updated (unlike SequoiaView which had it’s last release in 2002).
20 Mar 08
12:58 am
Great tool! Thanks!
23 Mar 08
9:40 am
Nice program but there is something much better.
It’s a plugin that shows the size of folders in the normal windows explorer.
have a look
http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
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10:48 am
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5:27 am
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