De-cluttering Drives with Foldersizes

One of the immutable laws of computing must be that, no matter how much disk space you have, it will eventually all fill up with junk. Regular review and "pruning" are required. But if you're running Windows like I am, it isn't always easy to see what's hogging up all that space.

A fantastic solution I ran across the other day is Foldersizes, a freeware gem by Mark Richards of Key Metric Software, LLC. The program lets you browse your drives and directories and shows you both in table form and/or as a graphical chart, which directories and files are using up the most space. You can also export your results as HTML files for viewing and printing.

Foldersizes is still a beta version, but I found it stable, incredibly easy to use, and immediately helpful. The day I installed it, the call went out to the 20 or so people in our office to clean up space on our shared network drive. Foldersizes to the rescue! In a minute I had a nice report to share showing which directories were using up the majority of the space so people could focus their efforts most effectively.
Highly recommended * * * *

Posted at July 3, 2003 11:14 AM
Categories: Hardware/Software