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Posted by Bob Moore on 04/03/06 17:53
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 00:40:51 +0100, "Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net>
wrote:
>2. I would like to view the contents of a hard drive in various ways to
>allow for "cleanups". I know there are various file cleanup software
>available, but I'd like to see (for example) an option to view a list of
>files on my drive by file-size only -ie. not in 'explorer format', so I
>might chose to delete the bigger ones wherever they are located.
>I realise this might not be safe/recommended, but it could help quickly find
>unwanted monster-files.
A good tool for that is SpaceMonger :
http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html
Free, and it shows you where the real hogs are. Don't install if you
have the Google Desktop search on your machine though - the size of
their index files will scare the crap out of you :-)
By default, it shows the free space as grey, which is kinda dumb:
switch that option off ASAP.
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