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QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics
- jpalomaki 9y agoSimilar tool for windows: https://windirstat.net https://windirstat.net
- mmozeiko 9y agoHere's WizTree which is similar to WinDirStat but runs much faster: http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-finds-the-files-and-folders-using-the-most-disk-space-on-your-hard-drive/ http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-f...
- cookiecaper 9y agoWow, that's way faster than WinDirStat. Thanks for the link! This is awesome.
- arunc 9y agoIs this open source?
- rincebrain 9y agoI would suspect it works in a similar fashion to this[1] modification of WinDirStat, which parses the MFT to do rapid scanning, but loses the ability to selectively refresh parts of the tree. It is, however, F/OSS. [1] - https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat
- edwinyzh 9y agoIt's very fast, thanks for the recommendation. It's about page says it's so fast because it reads the NTFS' MFT directly. And it's written in Delphi.
- Freaky 9y agoIt unfortunately doesn't seem to work properly with Storage Spaces. It can account for about 2% of the used space on my 50%-full thin-provisioned D: drive.
- fencepost 9y agoNot sure about Storage Spaces, but for non-local files in Onedrive on Windows 10 there are two size columns in WizTree for size and space on disk. Not sure it lets you select which value is used for ordering though.
- lanius 9y agoI like using SpaceSniffer on Windows: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ It has the best UI by far of all the tools I've tried in this space. Unfortunately not open source.
- Tempest1981 9y agoAlso TreeSize: https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/ https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
- ajnin 9y agoFor Windows my favorite tool is SpaceMonger version 1.4 (last freeware version). For some reason I find the layout algorithm very pleasing and the nesting easy to read. Other apps tend to put too many little rectangles too close together and it becomes unclear which files belong to which directory. Also I really dislike the popular "pillow" effect.
- igitur 9y agoAnything like this, but ncurses based?
- makmanalp 9y agoI use ncdu (https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) all the time, no treemap though.
- igravious 9y agoScreenshots: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr
- platz 9y agoncdu works well and is pretty fast.
- digi_owl 9y agoYeah i use it all the time and is one of the programs that makes me question my use of GUIs for anything beyond media players and web browsing.
- igravious 9y agoTerminal based music players: https://opensource.com/life/16/8/3-command-line-music-players-linux https://opensource.com/life/16/8/3-command-line-music-player... cmus, MOC, and mpg123/ogg123 I know what you mean. I'm building a terminal-based semantic web app after having started out in Ruby on Rails because I was finding I couldn't think about the app itself because of all the web stuff getting in the way not to mention prevaricating about what front-end framework to use and to Webpack or not Webpack and on and on. I would use a console version of Rails in a flash.
- seanwilson 9y agoThis program is awesome. It's useful for e.g. quickly running in a website project folder to figure out what's taking up space as you can browse and delete files as you go.
- JepZ 9y agoFor Linux/KDE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight I find it looks better and it has some dolphin (file manager) integration.
- notyourwork 9y agoAny other linux based options? Perhaps for gnome?
- toyg 9y agoFilelight works on Windows too.
- andmarios 9y agoQDirStat —it's original code, by the same author— is actually part of KDE. Just open Konqueror, visit a directory and select View -> View Mode -> File Size View.
- 0x0 9y agoSimilar tool for native macOS: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
- dawnerd 9y agoAnother good one (paid) https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/ Slightly prefer it over the other visualizers as you can easily stage files to be deleted.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoand it doesn't look like it was designed in the late 80s.
- svat 9y agoAnother one is Disk Inventory X: http://www.derlien.com/ http://www.derlien.com/
- tga 9y agoSimilar tool for Gnome, with a funky radial graph instead of a treemap: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/DiskUsageAnalyzer https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/DiskUsageAnalyzer
- vilya 9y agoGosh there are a lot of these programs, aren't there? For some reason I find it really hard to read these tree map visualisations. I know the theory and all that, but for me they just aren't an intuitive way of displaying that kind of information. For me a radial graph (i.e. pie chart like) is much easier to grok - I don't even have to think about it, I just get it. Seems like there must be plenty of people who don't think the same way though, given how many different tree map disk viewers there are out there! For what it's worth I use Diskitude (http://madebyevan.com/diskitude/ http://madebyevan.com/diskitude/) on Windows and Daisy Disk (https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/) on Mac. Both are great!
- jdonaldson 9y agoThere's a few reasons why rectangular shapes are superior... They fill the available space better than circles, and you can generally compare areas in rectangular shapes better than areas with curves. But, generally you're using these tools to spot outliers, in which case either approach works just fine.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoThe DaisyDisk website is surprisingly ugly and does not do their app justice. Here's what the app looks like: http://www.creativeapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/DaisyDisk-4.png http://www.creativeapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/... Ever since I've ditched macOS I've been waiting to find a similarly designed app for Windows. EDIT: Just tried Diskitude, but it's unfortunately nothing like DaisyDisk. It doesn't do the same drill-down DD does.
- vilya 9y agoYou can drill down in Diskitude by right clicking. I agree it's not as nice as Daisy Disk, but it's the best I've found for Windows (for my tastes) and you can't beat the price...
- blurspline 9y agoYou could try this Electron-based app SpaceRadar that should run on Windows, Mac, Linux https://github.com/zz85/space-radar https://github.com/zz85/space-radar It has some support for sunburst graphs, flame charts, and treemaps (disclaimer, author here)
- j_s 9y agoThe only tool I've found to show usage in Dropbox folders (that still works) is an Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.unclouded https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.u...
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- binaryman2 9y agoI agree that treemaps are confusing Thats why I prefer to use: Directory Report http://www.file-utilities.com http://www.file-utilities.com It looks just like the MS-Explorer but always shows the folder size