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WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
- dunk010 2y agoI've used this in the past, it's really great.
- hilbert42 2y agoIt's likely the product is now abandoned-ware or no longer developed. I'm sure this is the same version (or just a point different) that I had on my PC about a decade or so go. That said, that version worked OK.
- readthenotes1 2y agoI've used windirstat recently and it worked fine. Valuable to find the wasted space...
- notachatbot1234 2y agoThat might just mean that the product is good and finished.
- thefz 2y agoBut... it does not have an AI bot! Seriously, been using WDS for years and I could not care less about new features or its speed.
- varispeed 2y ago"What would you like to delete today? Here are 10 suggestions that will blow your mind. CLICK HERE"
- SuperHeavy256 2y agoThis!
- nray 2y agoStill used in Windows IT environments as it's portable, even if it is a bit slow and there is no console version for generating tree-maps for remote viewing.
- xd1936 2y agohttps://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next
- Tiberium 2y agoNot open source (freeware), but much faster than WinDirStat for NTFS - WizTree https://diskanalyzer.com/ https://diskanalyzer.com/. In short - it scans the actual filesystem metadata directly instead of enumerating files through the OS APIs, which makes it extremely fast.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoI like "ncdu", a TUI equivalent for Unixy systems. Although I learned the hard way that if you run it on a Mac home folder, and have iCloud's "optimize Mac storage" turned on, macOS will suddenly try to download literally everything in your iCloud storage to try to count the size of it, probably filling your disk. Oops.
- user3939382 2y agoDaisyDisk is an awesome macOS GUI version of this app
- angch 2y agoThere's also "diskonaut", a TUI which displays the output like the treemap of WinDirStat. Bonus is that the display is incremental and updates as it scans everything, so you don't need to wait for the complete scan to see how everything looks like. Written in Rust, and it's a `cargo install diskonaut` away if you have the rust toolchain installed.
- arcanemachiner 2y agoI switched to gdu a couple years back for reasons that I do not remember. I think it is faster or something.
- qwertox 2y ago`ncdu` has the `-x` flag which means that "Only count files and directories on the same filesystem as the specified dir.". Maybe that could help.
- oxygen_crisis 2y agoWizTree is famously almost 50x faster than WinDirStat (on normal Windows NTFS drives) by reading the Master File Table (MFT) instead of walking the tree to measure each file. WizTree isn't open-source like WinDirStat but "free as in beer" with optional donations. There's also a fork of WinDirStat patched to read the MFT but I don't know anyone who's tried it: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat
- matthews2 2y agoMore MFT goodness: the file search tool Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/)
- LelouBil 2y agoI want to like Everything but every time I start it up it takes 30 sec to 1 minute to update it's index
- xnx 2y agoYou can set it to run on startup or as a service so it updates the index in the background.
- letmevoteplease 2y agoTry Everything 1.5a - an "alpha" version with many improvements, in development for years but inexplicably hidden away on their website. Never experienced any instability. https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9787 https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9787
- kuro_neko 2y agoIt's a longtime friend of mine who has kept my computer from wasting space. But it's pretty outdated, and I think there are better programs out there now.
- martin293 2y agoSuch as?
- kuro_neko 2y agoWizTree, TreeSize or Fast WinDirStat (just fork). But I still like to turn on WinDirStat and take a moment to relax.
- SuperHeavy256 2y agobased.
- fuzzy2 2y agoCan WinDirStat deal with hard links nowadays? Windows uses them extensively in the WinSxX folder and possibly elsewhere.
- svag 2y agoFor anyone who wants to find more information regarding treemaps, which are used in this application, this link https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/ https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/ has some history about treemaps and here https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/demos/ https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/demos/ you can find a Java implementation where you can play
- convFixb 2y agoNote: There’s a gotcha when using it in multi-user environments (like a server). Users with Administrator access do not have permission to enumerate directories / files inside other Admin users home directories. So any per-user files are not counted in this scenario. Source: ‘The mysterious case of the Windows server with a full disk but WinDirStat shows it as only half-full’ :-)
- Dylan16807 2y agoIt can't get to all the files even for a single admin user, you need to do something like run it as system with psexec.
- justsomehnguy 2y agoYes, that's why WinDirStat is a no go at all. Use WizTree, or any other util what reads NTFS MFT directly.
- kid64 2y agoI recently observed, much to my delight, that WinDirStat runs flawlessly on Android under Winlator (https://www.winlator.org/ https://www.winlator.org/).
- xnx 2y agoWow. A system utility that reads the Windows MFT is about the last thing (after system drivers maybe) that I would expect to work under an emulator on Android.
- drpossum 2y agoI like how in the Year of our Lord 2024 this is not some basic functionality provided with the operating system.
- system2 2y agoUp until very recently we couldn't even open zip files without a helper software. Unsure why microsoft doesn't add things like powertoys by default.
- rezaprima 2y agoor reproduce something like ZipMagic (iirc, so defunct that its website is gone)
- bdowling 2y agoZip file support has been in Windows since 98 (via the Plus pack) or Me (2000). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)
- sumtechguy 2y agoThink they just added 7z and rar support very recently though. But zip has been in there for ages... I use it all the time.
- system2 2y agoI meant rar. Sorry heh
- okanat 2y agoYour first statement is already refuted by other commenters. For the second, the reason is offical software support, internationalization and accessibility. Microsoft provides certain guarantees for its officially released software. They don't want to provide those for Powertoys.
- Scharkenberg 2y ago25 years ago is not "recently".
- smusamashah 2y agoI find Space Sniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ to be a much better visualisation. It updates in near real-time. If you have lots of copy/move ops going in background, you will see those dirs blinking rectangles growing/shirking in Space Sniffer. To me, this is a clone of (now dead) Space Monger https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=150 https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=150
- Sakos 2y agoI really like the visualization, the functionality to watch live file access is so freaking cool. It's a bit slow though, no? After using something like WizTree, it's hard to go to something that needs minutes to finish scanning. I do wonder what kind of a performance impact it has.
- smusamashah 2y agoIt takes time for first indexing, yes. But once its done, any copy/move you do afterwards shows up in the UI at the same time.
- jonathanlydall 2y agoI used Space Sniffer for a very long time, but looked for alternatives because it crashes somewhat regularly and is generally a bit of a resource hog. Since trying WizTree I don't think I'll ever go back, it's so much faster, hasn't crashed once on me, and the visualizations are completely adequate for me to be able to see where space is being used.
- smusamashah 2y agoJust learned that Space Monger 1.4 has been open sourced for a while now https://github.com/seanofw/spacemonger1 https://github.com/seanofw/spacemonger1 Accompanying blog post https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post-mortem/ https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post...
- worewood 2y ago
- myfonj 2y agoI like Diskitude by Evan Wallace the most for this kind of quick and easy drive content sizes inspection. It does full scan, but is pretty fast and easy to use. And is super tiny. https://madebyevan.com/diskitude/ https://madebyevan.com/diskitude/
- iKlsR 2y agoI was about to share this, I just told someone about it the other night, been using it well over a decade now without any issue, the same exe I downloaded in 2011 or so.
- Frenzyk 2y agohttps://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free has been my companion for years, fast and clean
- qwertox 2y agoSame for me. Before using it I was using WinDirStat and before that SequoiaView, but I've now stuck to using only TreeSize Free for years now. It's good enough and the user interface is very clean.
- parker-3461 2y agoMany good alternative listed already. But I have quite liked FileLight which is cross platform https://apps.kde.org/filelight/ https://apps.kde.org/filelight/ Likely not as fast as WizTree though. Edit 1: source at https://invent.kde.org/utilities/filelight https://invent.kde.org/utilities/filelight with GPL 2.0 licence
- bool3max 2y agoFor Linux there's QDirStat: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
- noselasd 2y agoor Baobab https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer?action=show&redirect=Apps%2FBaobab https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer?ac...
- Neil44 2y agodu -h --max-depth=1 | sort -h
- arsome 2y agoIf you want a nicer presentation, try ncdu.
- goffi 2y agoI really like the fsview plugin that comes with Konqueror. It can be run independently: `fsview /some/dir`.
- immibis 2y agoIIRC WinDirStat is inspired by it.
- SushiHippie 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncdu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncdu
- xnx 2y agoAny good (preferably open) WinDirStat alternatives for Android?
- okanat 2y agoXplore file manager has this ability
- WhyNotHugo 2y agoOther Linux implementations: - https://github.com/bootandy/dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust (command line, extremely fast) - mate-disk-usage-analyzer (gui/gtk, a bit more intuitive and allows operating on files too).
- SuperHeavy256 2y agoI tried many other so called "successors" to WinDirStat. I didn't like a single one of them, each of them had some significant problem. This is a case of "If it ain't broken, don't fix it". This executable is from 2005 and still works flawlessly. If you haven't tried it yet, I encourage you to!
- benjijay 2y agoI used to have similar views, but last year found out about WizTree and was instantly converted. Way faster, just as functional.
- molticrystal 2y agoThey are getting very close to releasing windirstat-next [0] and already have some betas out, you can learn more about it in the subreddit. [1] >WinDirStat fans, >As a new pet project, I recently started some substantial revisions to WinDirStat in my GitHub branch and will work with current maintainer (Oliver Schneider) to eventually publish a new release hopefully in the next few months. The current changes on deck speed up performance drastically (seconds compared to minutes in some cases). It uses less memory compared to recent alternatives (WizTree), is faster as scanning network paths, and obviously isn't pushy about donating (although I certainly would not discourage folks from donating to their favorite opensource projects). >Oliver recently opened up the GitHub Issues trackers, and I would love to hear suggestions or known bugs for the existing version: >For the nerds interested in the changes I have queued up, you can visit the GitHub page [0] https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/WinDirStat/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WinDirStat/
- mlrtime 2y agoHijacking this comment... Does anyone know anything close to WinDirStat for google drive? I really need something like this.
- rmholt 2y agoMount Google Drive as a folder (rclone) and run WinDirStat?
- i15e 2y agoYou could install the Google Drive client and then run WinDirStat against the virtual drive letter that it creates: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10838124 https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10838124
- xd1936 2y agoI have done this before, and it works, but the client downloads every single file locally in the background before it's able to do the comparison. I suspect this is because WinDirStat requests metadata about the file itself, and the sync client needs to download the files in order to serve that metadata and/or file contents information to the application.
- 65 2y agoFor macOS there is Disk Inventory X: https://www.derlien.com/ https://www.derlien.com/
- userbinator 2y agoFrom the download page: It is known to run on Windows 95 (IE5), Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows NT4 (SP5), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. ...it is also known to run on Windows 10 and 11, and likely any newer versions too. IMHO this is a great example of how software should be. One tiny binary that is very widely compatible, doesn't have any user-hostile "features", and remains stable and bug-free. It's a contrast from an industry that largely can't produce such achievements, is becoming increasingly hostile, and quite telling when there are already comments here complaining about its age.
- moneywoes 2y agoanything like this for mobile phones?
- skeaker 2y agoFor Android I've found a tool just called DiskUsage that does this, but the visualization isn't quite as good.
- netbioserror 2y agoIt still tickles me that many Linux distros come with a tool like this preinstalled (https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer). Ah, the good ol' Windows days of having to hunt down tools that were actually useful. Far in the rearview mirror for me.
- zo1 2y agoIt tickles me that I still can't get a proper console program (like Conemu) on most Linux distros. Or anything resembling AutoHotKey or Notepad++. Like it may be fine for you, but it's definitely not a flex for some of us. And I use Linux as my daily driver.
- autoexec 2y agoNotepad++ will work with wine, and there's https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext Google says there are options for autohotkey too, although some are works in progress: https://github.com/Paris/IronAHK https://github.com/Paris/IronAHK / https://github.com/poa00/ahk.keysharp/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/poa00/ahk.keysharp/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/autokey/autokey https://github.com/autokey/autokey https://linux.die.net/man/7/xautomation https://linux.die.net/man/7/xautomation http://sikulix.com/ http://sikulix.com/ https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11 https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11 https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
- edward28 2y agoOr the old classic du -h / | sort -h
- byteknight 2y agoTreeSize is far better IMHO
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- accrual 2y agoI'm a fan of WinDirStat. Yes it can be slow, but it runs on darn near every Win OS, hasn't changed in years, is a small executable, and the site always seems available. I used it many times to solve disk space issues on the job.
- HPsquared 2y agoTreemaps are generally a really cool way to visualise hierarchical data. See also the Observatory of Economic Complexity, which has treemaps of international trade and economic statistics. https://oec.world/profile/country/gbr#yearly-trade https://oec.world/profile/country/gbr#yearly-trade
- ConradKilroy 2y agofancy and interesting, thx for sharing.
- mckjns 2y agoFor my MacOS friends, it might be a little outdated but I prefer GrandPerspective: https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
- Levitating 2y agoAnother oss alternative that a like is SpaceSniffer[1]. It doesn't have the color coding but it is much faster and updates live. [1]: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
- cush 2y agoI feel like I’ve been using this tool for 20 years. So useful!
- tbrizitsky 2y agoThere are quite many apps for visualizing disk folder structure for almost any OS. Any flavor you like: lists (diskwave, omnidisk), treemaps (GrandPerspective), pie charts (DiskSavvy), sunburst (baobab), icicle, etc. The two winning visualization types are sunburst and treemaps. Both have their own cons and pros, but in our tests user sunburst performed slightly better for regular users. My personal bet is that no disk space analyzing tool's developer took it seriously or tried to actually advance the algorithms. Most of the apps I know use quite straightforward implementation and haven't been touched for years. Guess a little bit of filtering, grouping and changing coloring algorithms could significantly improve the treemap's perception, but someone has to do the job. disclaimer: I'm the original designer of DaisyDisk.
- kristiandupont 2y agoThank you for DaisyDisk, it's my go-to when I need to free up some space and it's a delight to use!
- Brajeshwar 2y agoHey, your DaisyDisk UI gets stolen for Movies and stuff. Here, TV Series, Person of Interest used the interface to make a fancy scene! https://x.com/brajeshwar/status/1733390176112800037 https://x.com/brajeshwar/status/1733390176112800037
- tbrizitsky 2y agoI'm surprised they photo-manipulated that much. The makers of Unfriended: Dark Web just used the actual app :)
- kazinator 2y agoI use WinDirStat. At one point a number of years ago, I became curious about the parent program KDirStat. So I actually got that installed on some Ubuntu or something. It was interesting. Like a prototype for WinDirStat or something.
- SantiagoElf 2y agoTreeSizeView also works perfectly.
- insane_dreamer 2y agobeen using GrandPerspective on Mac for the past 15 years and still v. happy with it
- tylervigen 2y agoI have used WinDirStat for years. It's not perfect, but it solves my use case very well. My use case is just: my disk is full, I don't know why. This happens on one of my computers like once a year, so the fact that it's slow is fine. It usually helps me spot some folder set that is taking up a lot of space that I don't need on that PC, or something large that is duplicated. My personal favorite example is wedding photos and videos. Turns out: those are huge, I am not going to delete them, but they don't need to be backed up on every computer I own.
- ipaddr 2y agoProbably the one thing you should over do the backups for
- Dwedit 2y agoWizTree directly reads the MFT, and is a LOT faster, but it is not a free program.
- 0969mime0969 2y agoI love WinDirStat and was pleasantly surprised to learn there is also a Linux variant that is really good. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
- worewood 2y agoHaven't tried it in years. Have they ever fixed it not accurately accounting for directory junctions and links? Edit: it seems they have! But I don't know about NTFS compression and alternate data streams.
- purplecats 2y agoDisk Inventory X is the closest to as pretty as that I've found. I wish it was maintained