Tag Results For: disk space

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FindSpace: View Disk Space Usage On Your Hard Drive In Tree View [Mac]

A while back, we covered two apps, DaisyDisk and Disk Scanner, the former worth $9.99 and the latter free. Both apps scan your hard disk and show you how your hard drive’s space is used in a daisy graph. The graph, while extremely appealing to look at, is one of the non-traditional and lesser known [...] (more…)

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SymMover: Move Installed Programs To Other Folders & Disks Without Reinstalling

A vast majority of Windows programs follow one certain behavior when it comes to their installation – they set the default install location to your system’s Program Files directory. The reasoning behind such an approach, naturally, is to keep all installed applications in one location. The problem, however, starts when games, which can amass up [...] (more…)

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FilePro: Graphically Analyze Disk Space From Multiple Perspectives & Criteria

If we keep installing large applications in our system, the hard disk can run out of space pretty quickly. Games and application such as Adobe Photoshop take up a lot of space on the hard disk during installation. More space is consumed by them when saving a game or an edited picture or video. So, [...] (more…)

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DiskScanner: Visualize Memory Hogging Folders In Disc Graph [Mac]

Last year in December, we covered an app called DaisyDisk worth $9.99, which is well beyond the upper price point for paid apps and easily warranted a giveaway. For those who missed our giveaway, or didn’t score a license, here is a free alternative. DiskScanner is a Mac app that does pretty much what DaisyDisk [...] (more…)

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[Giveaway] DaisyDisk: Visualize Disk Space Usage & Memory Hogging Folders [Mac]

On a Mac, you have one solitary disk, no matter what the size is, and you still get only one drive with no partitions whatsoever. This means, all your data will get organized in folders, and although this would hold true even if you had disk partitions, they would at least let you separate work [...] (more…)

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MacCleaning: Clear Cache, Logs & Monitor Storage From Mac Menu Bar

If you use more than one browser, then you are less likely to keep your cache clear. Even people who only use one browser often do not clear caches, and some don’t even know how. For Mac users, there is an easy way; MacCleaning is a Mac app that cleans files in your cache and [...] (more…)

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Better Directory Analyzer Removes Duplicate, Hidden And Large Files

It can be quite difficult to analyze reasons for low disk space as one is often unable to locate files which may be consuming a large chunk of the hard disk (particularly in the primary partition). For example, if one has assigned a dynamically assigned virtual disk to a virtual machine, one might over look [...] (more…)

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GetFoldersize Analyzes Hard Disk Size And Free Space In Real Time

Disk space usage analyzers are used to determine which folders and files are taking too much space of your local and removable disk drives, thus providing an easy way to clean the folders and files to save precious disk space. If you’re running short of disk space and want to examine and clean big folders [...] (more…)

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Quickly Check Disk Space Usage Of Folders And Sub-Folders With SizeOnDisk

Most users rely on disk space analyzers to find out files and folders which are taking too much space, however, they can also be used to keep a check on folders which attempt to surreptitiously start filling up disk space with junk data. SizeOnDisk is portable disk usage analyzer for inspecting disks and folders for [...] (more…)

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Check Disk Space Usage On Graphical Data Blocks With WinDirStat

Do you hate to see ‘running out disk space’ prompt every time you log on to Windows? You should get a good cleaner to remove junk off the system to save some disk space. But removing junk files is not enough to free one big chunk of your disk, you probably need to remove large [...] (more…)

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Compress Portable Application Data To Save Disk Space With AppCompactor

Consider a situation where you need to copy some portable applications to your external storage medium but there isn’t sufficient space available on device in question. In such a case, many users will start removing unnecessary data in order to copy much needed applications files or other data, but what if there isn’t a single [...] (more…)

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Find Large Files On Your PC With DiskFerret Lite

DiskFerret Lite is the free version of the Java powered DiskFerret software. It is a disk analyzing utility which runs inside your browser and therefore does not require installation. With DiskFerret Lite You can get a comprehensive overview of the files that are consuming the most space on your hard drive and hence identify and [...] (more…)

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DiskSavvy Analyzes NAS Storage Devices, Local And Network Disk Space

Want to know which local or remote drives and folders are taking more space and analyze the disk space allocation report by variety of parameters? Try out DiskSavvy. It is an advanced disk space analysis tool with many features to give in-depth file/folder and drive space analysis report. In the past, we have featured some [...] (more…)

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Display Real-Time Physical And Virtual Memory Usage, Page File Usage, And Hard Disk Space

MemoryWatch is a small open source tool that displays your physical memory usage, virtual memory usage, page file usage, and the disk space of the selected local drive. And warns you when any of them reach critical levels. On launch, it will display the real-time usage sitting above the system tray menu. It can be [...] (more…)

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WhichSize – Disk Space Clean Up Tool For Mac

As usage of any computer system progresses, the hard disk is bound to get cluttered with useless data, long-forgotten files and such of the like. It becomes increasingly difficult to identify and delete such files on one’s own through manual checking. Hence, WhichSize comes in handy. (more…)