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Posted by Gunther Gloop on 04/03/06 19:40
Bob Moore wrote:
> 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.
Excellent. Just downloaded and had a quick look. Seems to be what I'm
looking for.
Thanks! : )
-Kevin.
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