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SpaceMonger

70 points by aarobot 4y ago

cosmotic 4y ago
SpaceSniffer is a great more-recent alternative http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
smusamashah 4y ago
They have stopped developing it long time ago. Current alternative is SpaceSniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
- criddell 4y ago
  > They have stopped developing it long time ago. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I still use it and it does exactly what I want it to do - help me figure out what’s using up all of the space on my disk. It used to usually be media files. These days it’s usually Windows.
  - smusamashah 4y ago
    I used it back in days of 98 and XP. There were things they were going to develop. They were related to search I think. Don't remember. They remained only partially implemented. SpaceSniffer on the other hand don't have that many features but it's very fast. If you are cleaning up files, you can see the size of boxes getting smaller in realtime as files being deleted.
shireboy 4y ago
Windirstat is similar and my go-to for this on PC. Is there a similar Mac/Linux app?
- ndom91 4y ago
  I've used duc on Linux for a while. Can recommend. https://duc.zevv.nl/ https://duc.zevv.nl/
  - misnome 4y ago
    And the fact that you can run the indexing and visualization in separate passes is extremely useful, especially for E.g. large network file systems that are slow to index.
  - sliken 4y ago
    I like, I've been working on a faster parallel scanner written in go for the really large filesystems, in my env it's around 10x faster. In any case I find the scan -> database which the client can view quickly very useful. Also note that there's text based, graphical, and web interfaces to view the database.
- smcleod 4y ago
  DaisyDisk on macOS https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/
- ccvannorman 4y ago
  Yes, GrandPerspective is a visual file space tool for Mac OS http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
- johnchristopher 4y ago
  Strangely I haven't found yet a tool like spacemonger or spacesniffer for Linux. None have that square layout so ncdu it is. Edit: I am trying something new here. Usually when I have beeninging complain or ask for help regarding a computer problem for a long time the solution appears in the minute in the comments or in a Google search. Fingers crossed.
  - kej 4y ago
    QDirstat and K4Dirstat were the ones to use as of a few years ago; I don't know if there's a newer option since then.
    - johnchristopher 4y ago
      They are still alive but they don't show the folder's names in the squares
- idbfs 4y ago
  I use Baobab on Linux. It appears to support MacOS as well. https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.baobab/ https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.baobab/
- teddyh 4y ago
  I often type du -ax / | xdu -n -c 9
- scosman 4y ago
  OmniDiskSweeper on mac: https://www.omnigroup.com/more https://www.omnigroup.com/more
- mike_richards 4y ago
  qdirstat is the Linux equivalent. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
- reiichiroh 4y ago
  I use DaisyDisk for my Macs and WizTree for Windows
- orena 4y ago
  qdirstat - https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
- seanalltogether 4y ago
  http://www.spacegremlinapp.com http://www.spacegremlinapp.com
- streblo 4y ago
  GrandPerspective is free and has a lot of feature overlap http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
majkinetor 4y ago
WizTree is currently the best on Windows. It uses the MFT to scan disk, so it is incredibly fast, just like search engine everything. Its not FOSS, but its free for personal use and actively developed. https://www.diskanalyzer.com/ https://www.diskanalyzer.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/
YuccaGloriosa 4y ago
I've used Sequoia view for years. Looks great. https://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ https://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
lillecarl 4y ago
I use "ncdu" on Linux and Mac, when I ran windows I ran WinDirStat, not because it's the best, but because it's floss
- pheasantquiff 4y ago
  Thanks for [ncdu]. I like it and had not heard of it. I see no mention of [KDirStat] http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ of which, the much more famous, but later, [WinDirStat], is a clone.
jt2190 4y ago
(2000)
ronreiter 4y ago
Disk Inventory X for MacOS is great. https://www.derlien.com/ https://www.derlien.com/
- petercooper 4y ago
  Also Daisydisk, though it's paid: https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/
gizajob 4y ago
Omg SpaceMonger. There's a blast from the past. Used to be an essential and crucial tool for me back in the day around the turn of the millennium. Respect to whoever programmed it. Disk Inventory X became a must-install as soon as I switched over to Mac. Something about being able to see your whole disk that's more enlightening than browsing directories or trees somehow.
D13Fd 4y ago
I still use this regularly. I literally used it yesterday. It’s a great solution to the problem of “how can I tell what is taking up all of the space on my drive”
- Minor49er 4y ago
  Same here. I think I first found it on a shareware disc years and years ago, but still use it today on my Windows 10 machine
- nokya 4y ago
  Same here. Spacemonger along with a very old version of Paintshop pro (paid) have been moving around my systems for almost two decades. Everytime I reinstall my computer I verify that I still have these two faithful programs somewhere.
randoglando 4y ago
Most alternatives mentioned here miss the main point of this, which is that it shows you 1 app that is equal to the size of x other apps
crablove 4y ago
- detaro 4y ago
  It clearly is named after -monger, not mong.
reiichiroh 4y ago
This was a good free app to start with but I found that WizTree is faster across my 50+ TB bunch of drives consisting of internal and external USB drives.
kristianp 4y ago
I use treesize free edition on Windows. It displays an orderered tree of sizes, much more useful than any graphical representation, for me anyway.
robertheadley 4y ago
Spacemonger was great, but it hasn't been updated in years. I recommend Wiztree. https://diskanalyzer.com/ https://diskanalyzer.com/
JWatson2186 4y ago
Such a great tool. My Dad gave me a copy of the .exe on a USB when I was much younger. Since then I have kept a copy of it on my PC. Never fails. Nice surprise seeing this on HN today!
SLWW 4y ago
Keeping the dream alive :) http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
lazyjeff 4y ago
Spacemonger is probably the oldest piece of non-updated software I still use. I've been using it continuously for over 20 years, about the same length as I've been using Winamp 2, and just recently used it to clear out some large files to create a full-disk backup. It still works blazing fast on hard drives that are 1000 times the size than the drives that existed when it was programmed, and nearly as well as 20+ years ago (there are some occasional crashes when removing some system protected files, but easy to just open it up and scan again). I never made the jump to Spacemonger 2 because in the early years that I started using it, I was in high school without a credit card. I emailed the author in December 2020 to see if there was a way to enable HiDPI on it, since that's the only real flaw of it right now. He responded 3 months later with a very personal message that I really appreciated.
aaron695 4y ago
chris_wot 4y ago
There is an open source version of this: https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post-mortem/ https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post...
SyneRyder 4y ago
I'm a bit confused at why people are saying it isn't updated, as its now a paid Stardock product (officially licensed, according to Sean Werkema's resume): https://www.stardock.com/products/spacemonger/ https://www.stardock.com/products/spacemonger/ The Stardock version 3.0 Build 1711 is from 2018, so that is a while since the last update and there's still no HiDPI. There's also a bug where it interprets 0-byte placeholder files as 8GB giants. But 2018 seems to be a newer update than what people here are suggesting. But v3 isn't free, and I've not tried the old freeware / open source version, so I don't know if newer actually means "better".

70 points by aarobot 4y ago

SpaceSniffer is a great more-recent alternative http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

smusamashah 4y ago

They have stopped developing it long time ago. Current alternative is SpaceSniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

criddell 4y ago
> They have stopped developing it long time ago. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I still use it and it does exactly what I want it to do - help me figure out what’s using up all of the space on my disk. It used to usually be media files. These days it’s usually Windows.
- smusamashah 4y ago
  I used it back in days of 98 and XP. There were things they were going to develop. They were related to search I think. Don't remember. They remained only partially implemented. SpaceSniffer on the other hand don't have that many features but it's very fast. If you are cleaning up files, you can see the size of boxes getting smaller in realtime as files being deleted.

shireboy 4y ago

Windirstat is similar and my go-to for this on PC. Is there a similar Mac/Linux app?

ndom91 4y ago
I've used duc on Linux for a while. Can recommend. https://duc.zevv.nl/ https://duc.zevv.nl/
- misnome 4y ago
  And the fact that you can run the indexing and visualization in separate passes is extremely useful, especially for E.g. large network file systems that are slow to index.
- sliken 4y ago
  I like, I've been working on a faster parallel scanner written in go for the really large filesystems, in my env it's around 10x faster. In any case I find the scan -> database which the client can view quickly very useful. Also note that there's text based, graphical, and web interfaces to view the database.
smcleod 4y ago
DaisyDisk on macOS https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/
ccvannorman 4y ago
Yes, GrandPerspective is a visual file space tool for Mac OS http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
johnchristopher 4y ago
Strangely I haven't found yet a tool like spacemonger or spacesniffer for Linux. None have that square layout so ncdu it is. Edit: I am trying something new here. Usually when I have beeninging complain or ask for help regarding a computer problem for a long time the solution appears in the minute in the comments or in a Google search. Fingers crossed.
- kej 4y ago
  QDirstat and K4Dirstat were the ones to use as of a few years ago; I don't know if there's a newer option since then.
  - johnchristopher 4y ago
    They are still alive but they don't show the folder's names in the squares
idbfs 4y ago
I use Baobab on Linux. It appears to support MacOS as well. https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.baobab/ https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.baobab/
teddyh 4y ago
I often type du -ax / | xdu -n -c 9
scosman 4y ago
OmniDiskSweeper on mac: https://www.omnigroup.com/more https://www.omnigroup.com/more
mike_richards 4y ago
qdirstat is the Linux equivalent. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
reiichiroh 4y ago
I use DaisyDisk for my Macs and WizTree for Windows
orena 4y ago
qdirstat - https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
seanalltogether 4y ago
http://www.spacegremlinapp.com http://www.spacegremlinapp.com
streblo 4y ago
GrandPerspective is free and has a lot of feature overlap http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

majkinetor 4y ago

WizTree is currently the best on Windows. It uses the MFT to scan disk, so it is incredibly fast, just like search engine everything. Its not FOSS, but its free for personal use and actively developed. https://www.diskanalyzer.com/ https://www.diskanalyzer.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/

YuccaGloriosa 4y ago

I've used Sequoia view for years. Looks great. https://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ https://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

lillecarl 4y ago

I use "ncdu" on Linux and Mac, when I ran windows I ran WinDirStat, not because it's the best, but because it's floss

pheasantquiff 4y ago
Thanks for [ncdu]. I like it and had not heard of it. I see no mention of [KDirStat] http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ of which, the much more famous, but later, [WinDirStat], is a clone.

jt2190 4y ago

(2000)

ronreiter 4y ago

Disk Inventory X for MacOS is great. https://www.derlien.com/ https://www.derlien.com/

petercooper 4y ago
Also Daisydisk, though it's paid: https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/

gizajob 4y ago

Omg SpaceMonger. There's a blast from the past. Used to be an essential and crucial tool for me back in the day around the turn of the millennium. Respect to whoever programmed it. Disk Inventory X became a must-install as soon as I switched over to Mac. Something about being able to see your whole disk that's more enlightening than browsing directories or trees somehow.

D13Fd 4y ago

I still use this regularly. I literally used it yesterday. It’s a great solution to the problem of “how can I tell what is taking up all of the space on my drive”

Minor49er 4y ago
Same here. I think I first found it on a shareware disc years and years ago, but still use it today on my Windows 10 machine
nokya 4y ago
Same here. Spacemonger along with a very old version of Paintshop pro (paid) have been moving around my systems for almost two decades. Everytime I reinstall my computer I verify that I still have these two faithful programs somewhere.

randoglando 4y ago

Most alternatives mentioned here miss the main point of this, which is that it shows you 1 app that is equal to the size of x other apps

crablove 4y ago

detaro 4y ago
It clearly is named after -monger, not mong.

reiichiroh 4y ago

This was a good free app to start with but I found that WizTree is faster across my 50+ TB bunch of drives consisting of internal and external USB drives.

kristianp 4y ago

I use treesize free edition on Windows. It displays an orderered tree of sizes, much more useful than any graphical representation, for me anyway.

robertheadley 4y ago

Spacemonger was great, but it hasn't been updated in years. I recommend Wiztree. https://diskanalyzer.com/ https://diskanalyzer.com/

JWatson2186 4y ago

Such a great tool. My Dad gave me a copy of the .exe on a USB when I was much younger. Since then I have kept a copy of it on my PC. Never fails. Nice surprise seeing this on HN today!

SLWW 4y ago

Keeping the dream alive :) http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

lazyjeff 4y ago

Spacemonger is probably the oldest piece of non-updated software I still use. I've been using it continuously for over 20 years, about the same length as I've been using Winamp 2, and just recently used it to clear out some large files to create a full-disk backup. It still works blazing fast on hard drives that are 1000 times the size than the drives that existed when it was programmed, and nearly as well as 20+ years ago (there are some occasional crashes when removing some system protected files, but easy to just open it up and scan again). I never made the jump to Spacemonger 2 because in the early years that I started using it, I was in high school without a credit card. I emailed the author in December 2020 to see if there was a way to enable HiDPI on it, since that's the only real flaw of it right now. He responded 3 months later with a very personal message that I really appreciated.

aaron695 4y ago

chris_wot 4y ago

There is an open source version of this: https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post-mortem/ https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post...

SyneRyder 4y ago

I'm a bit confused at why people are saying it isn't updated, as its now a paid Stardock product (officially licensed, according to Sean Werkema's resume): https://www.stardock.com/products/spacemonger/ https://www.stardock.com/products/spacemonger/ The Stardock version 3.0 Build 1711 is from 2018, so that is a while since the last update and there's still no HiDPI. There's also a bug where it interprets 0-byte placeholder files as 8GB giants. But 2018 seems to be a newer update than what people here are suggesting. But v3 isn't free, and I've not tried the old freeware / open source version, so I don't know if newer actually means "better".