Analyze Hard Drive Usage Via A Drill Down Tree View

by on Oct 25, 2008 | 1 comment

If your hard drive is getting full or you notice the space is filling up fast, a handy tool to use in order to find where all your space is going is TreeSize.

TreeSize is a free utility which shows a “rolled up” view of all the space consumed on your hard drive by particular folders. By drilling down into the folders, you see the size of all the sub-folders and files which total to the size of the parent folder, making it easy to quickly identify where all your space is going.

I can see this tool being useful for locating log and other such files which can grow very large if unchecked.

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  • Michael Ruemmler

    I recently noticed that my 320G hard drive had about 100G free which made no sense. I installed Treesize and found that I had three full backup files on the drive. I only need one if that and transferred the most recent to a usb drive.

    I went to delete the extra two backups and can’t do it. I keep getting blocked or denied. Suggestions? other than format the drive and reinstall the system.

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