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Get An Overview Of Mac Folder Sizes & Drive Space Usage With DiskSpace

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DiskSpace is a free app available in the Mac App Store that gives you a quick overview of spaced usage in the drives mounted in your Mac and the folders in the user's Home folder. Unlike DaisyDisk and DiskScanner - both of which give you details on space usage down to the last folder - DiskSpace gives you an overview of how space is consumed in your Home folder. DiskSpace is tied down to whichever user account you’re signed in to; even if you have Administrator privileges, it will not let you add the Home folder of any other user. Read More

Find Files & Folders Taking The Most Disk Space With WizTree

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Since the inception of hard drives, manufactures are pioneering ways to pack in more gigabytes into them than you could imagine. As a result, hard drives boasting 1 terabyte of space have become quite common and should be pretty much enough to store most of your digital content. Windows doesn't contain a native utility that quickly tells you about the amount of space each file and folder is occupying on the disk. On the flip side of the coin though, you can use a variety of third-party tools that suffice for the job. One such solution that I recently came across is WizTree. What makes WizTree stand apart from similar alternatives is its blazing fast scan speed. The tool uses MFT (Master File Table – the NTFS index about what a drive contains), completing the scanning process within a few seconds. Read More

Disk Falcon Is A Sleek Disk Analyzer Tool For Windows 8

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Built from the ground up, keeping both desktops and tablets in mind, Microsoft’s new operating system looks cool, and to maintain that cool factor, developers are trying to create Windows 8 apps that perfectly embellish the new Metro Modern UI. Although comparatively lighter on resources, the new operating system still needs a sufficient amount of disk space to provide you with a seamless experience. Available on the Windows Store for this very purpose, Disk Falcon is a disk analyzer that provides both eye-candy and excellent functionality. What makes it stand out is its user interface, which according to the developer, is based on Ultraviolet Dawn’s game engine. Using the engine's full potential, Disk Falcon displays everything related to disk space usage in real-time on pie, bar and doughnut charts. Although the scan engine is not outstanding and a bit slow compared to other disk analyzers, it performs a deep scan of selected drive and folders, so you can easily identify which files are taking too much of your disk space. Read More

MoreSpace: Compress Files & Folders Into HFS+ Format To Save Space

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Space and file size matter more in cases where data has to be transferred online, because there is always a limit and because sending large files takes time and precious bandwidth that you may be short on. As far as your local hard disk is concerned, time isn’t a issue, but space still matters; however, files can’t be kept in an archive format all the time. They will have to be extracted each time you want to access them and will need to be recompressed once you’ve made changes. MoreSpace Folder Compression is a Mac app worth $0.99 in the Mac App Store that compresses files but does not add them to an archive. Files are kept in their original format and compression is on the HFS+ system. The app actively monitors any folder that you’ve added and compressed for changes, and when a change is detected, i.e., items are added to a folder, the app will compress the new items. In addition to compressing any folder you choose to add, it will also compress your email. Read More

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

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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 graph types. If you’re a novice using either of these apps, you might not be able to make much sense of the graph itself. FindSpace is a free Mac app that does roughly the same thing DaisyDisk and Disk Scanner do, only it displays results in a simple tree structure, something computer users are more familiar with. Read More

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

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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 to over 15 gigabytes in size, also follow the same pattern, and unless you manually change the installation directory to another folder on your hard drive, you can run out of disk space pretty fast on your primary drive. This, in turn, results not only in low disk space, but also performance issues like low virtual memory, larger fragmentation and what not. Normally, in such a case, your rescue means would include uninstalling the programs from their default location, and reinstalling in another one to regain your precious disk space back. If you want to avoid that hassle, SymMover can come in handy. Read More

FilePro: Graphically Analyze Disk Space From Multiple Perspectives & Criteria

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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, when your hard drive runs out of disk space, you have to manually check what is taking up the disk space in order to decide what can be deleted to free up the memory. Applications to analyze disk space come in very handy at this time, which allow you to view which file is taking up how much memory and where the files that are consuming the largest portion of memory, are located. Previously, we have reviewed some very good disk space analyzers, including WinDirStat, Folder Size, Over Disk and TDP x-Ray Lite. Today, we have another disk analyzer for you named FilePro, which allows you to graphically view the distribution of hard disk space among files. The space can be analyzed from multiple perspectives, such as Tree Map, Tree Size, Folder Statistics and File Statistics. Read More

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

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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 did; it gives you a graphical overview of disk space consumption in a pie-graph, where each folder is represented by a section of the disc. The size of the section corresponds to the amount of memory the file/folder occupies. You can scan all types of folders and mounted disk drives using this app, and easily browse folders. While the app is similar in functionality to DaisyDisk, it does have less appealing visuals, but nothing that you can’t ignore. It also does not support drag & drop folders to scan them. Read More

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

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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 and personal files/folders. With so many folders inside a folder inside another folder, you often save files that hog space, and forget them later on. If you ever get down to freeing up some space on your disk, you’d probably spend a lot of time trying to find what’s eating it up before deleting it. DaisyDisk is a Mac app available for $9.99 in the Mac App Store, that lets you visualize how space is being consumed on your hard disk. All folders are shown in disc-like graphs, and each component can be clicked to view memory usage in a particular folder. Read More

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

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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 allows you to monitor disk space from the system menu bar. Additionally, the app also allows you to unmount disks. Using this app, you can quickly clean system and user caches, logs and the trash can. The app can be set to start when you boot your system, and will warn you when you have less than 10% of free disk space left. Read More

Better Directory Analyzer Removes Duplicate, Hidden And Large Files

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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 the virtual hard disk space when trying to locate the cause of low disk space usage. When analyzing disk space issues, one requires analyzing files by keeping in mind a number of factors including hidden, large, duplicate files and file types which may have become redundant as the associated application might no longer be required. For example, you might wish to find and delete virtual disk files left behind by a visualization software which you uninstalled. Better Directory Analyzer is a robust application which helps you get detailed stats regarding the consumption of disk space by files within a specific directory. Some of its main features include visual graph display for largest files, duplicate file removal, hidden file stats display, search filters to identify files more easily and the option to export stats in CSV and HTML format. The aforementioned options not just allow users to view files according to a specific criteria but also enables removal of unwanted files by file size, duplicate files, hidden files and according to a specific file extension. Read More

GetFoldersize Analyzes Hard Disk Size And Free Space In Real Time

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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 to save disk space, GetFoldersize may help you anatomize disk space distribution. It’s a small disk space usage analyzer that has been written to display complete space distribution among folders and files. You just have to select the source path of folder and it will start analyzing the disk space usage for that folder. Read More

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

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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 disk space usage. You can either choose a disk to completely analyze the space distribution or pick up any folder to check size of underlying sub-folders and files. Read More

Check Disk Space Usage On Graphical Data Blocks With WinDirStat

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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 number of useless folders and files which are taking a bigger part of your disk. For the disk space analysis to find all the hefty files and folders, we have WinDirStat for you. It’s a small application which does exactly what its name states, giving in-depth statistics for used space of your hard drive. You can either go for complete disk analysis which involves analyzing all the local drives or choose to select specific drive. WinDirStat plots space usage on graphical data blocks which makes it easier for you to identify files taking most part of drive in question. Read More

Compress Portable Application Data To Save Disk Space With AppCompactor

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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 file that you can afford to delete from your portable storage medium? In such situations, the best method around to squeeze through more files without deleting existing data is to use compression utility for saving precious disk space. AppCompactor can compress data of portable applications in order to save disk space and also to improve their performance. This could come extremely useful when you’re already running out of disk space and want to save some important data on it. Unlike traditional file compression applications, it applies high compression on each file without archiving all of them into single container, allowing you to use the compressed application without having to unpack the contents. Read More

Find Large Files On Your PC With DiskFerret Lite

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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 remove unwanted files. The information of a selected drive is displayed by size, user, top files (according to size), file type and duplicate files. This information can be viewed in a number of ways including pie charts, bar charts, tree map chart, ring chart and a text based table. Read More

DiskSavvy Analyzes NAS Storage Devices, Local And Network Disk Space

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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 nice disk space analyzers with major focus was on performing quick analysis of specified locations with eye-candy UI, one prominent example is Disk Space Fan . DiskSavvy capitalizes more on giving user insight into the space which are being consumed by folders and drives. What sets it apart from previously covered tools is the fact that it can analyze disk space by several parameters, including, by Extension, File Size, Access Time, Modification Time, User Name, Type and so on, with an ability to generate report in both pie and bar chart to visually analyze disk space by any of selected parameter. DiskSavvy is also loaded with some useful plugins to create disk space classification report for performing simple operations like copy, move and delete folders quickly according to the consumed space. Read More

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

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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 minimized to system tray, started with windows, and selected to remain always on top. Both the refresh interface (in ms) and warning limit (in percentage) can be selected by the user. Read More

WhichSize – Disk Space Clean Up Tool For Mac

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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. Read More

Disable Low Disk Space Notification Alert In Windows 7 / Vista

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You might have noticed that whenever you run short of disk space on some particular drive on your system then Windows shows you a notification message. This is no doubt a very useful feature but on the other hand it also becomes annoying as it keeps disturbing you again and again. Below we have covered a simple way to disable such alerts via the Windows Registry. Read More