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How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?

I was listening to the StackExchange podcast (either 28 or 29) and Jeff briefly mentioned a tool that you could use to see the size of directories. I may be completely wrong.

Anyway, is there a tool I can use to browse directories and get a visual indicator of their size? I need to clean up a hard drive and this would be a big help.

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I did search for this before I posted but I looked for "windows size directories" and didn't see what I wanted. – jcollum Dec 11 '11 at 17:13
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Try WindirStat. It's excellent giving both a visual and text that both work together. Selection one highlights the other, etc. http://windirstat.info/download.html

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windirstat.info/index.html shows how the interface looks. – OG Chuck Low Dec 10 '11 at 21:09
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Nice tool. Even better: it reports the correct last modified date for folders. In my case Win7 says 12/6 but I know it's been mod'd since then. WinDirStat says 12/10 which is much more accurate. – jcollum Dec 11 '11 at 17:12
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I love WinDirStat when I am cleaning and doing in depth analysis. When I just need a quick complete status of any particular branch of a directory tree I prefer TreeSize free. Right click integration and very fast reporting make it a great addition to the toolbox.

If these two don't meet your needs, I also stumbled on a list of similar tools that seems pretty interesting https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pQUddA0IZ9qvu_A3TvLu3cA&gid=2&output=html

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JDiskReport gives you a series of pie charts that you can cut into to see which types of files there are, and how they are distributed on the disk.

It requires Java, and is freeware.

(I am not affiliated with this product, but I have used it for a number of years)

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