Comments on: Looking for a visual filemanagement tool

Question: Looking for a visual filemanagement tool

falameufilho — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:37:15 -0800

I am looking for a file management tool that will help me clear some space on the hard drive of my WinXP laptop.

I have a 60Gb hard drive and I am running out of space. I have deleted lots of stuff, and the situation is under control now, but I know I will run into this problem again soon. The thing is: my directory structure is a mess, and has always been like that. What I need is a tool that will help me in my "housekeeping" chores. Windows Explorer just won't cut it.

I remember that for Win 3.1, back in the dark ages, I had a shareware that would show your directory structure as a visual map, where larger directories (in total file size) would be represented by larger squares, and you could click on these squares to navigate through your HD, making the cleaning process a breeze.

Does anyone know of any tool that can help me?

By: whatisish

whatisish — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:48:00 -0800

SequoiaView

By: gnash

gnash — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:57:44 -0800

TreeSize Professional is a superb tool.

By: Yorrick

Yorrick — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:23:29 -0800

SpaceMonger is Freeware and works well.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:36:42 -0800

sounds like windirstat - it starts off with a tree display + pacmen, then once it's read everything you get the map of squares you remember.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 06:28:16 -0800

SequoiaView is a great program but it hasn't been updated since 2002 and it shows - it's a little rough around the edges.

JDiskReport is not bad either.

By: theora55

theora55 — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:18:45 -0800

Not a direct answer to your question, but this may be useful information. If you have ever had hibernation enabled, there may be a really large hibernat.dat file on C:\. if you don't use hibernation, it can be deleted. I find hibernation unrelibale; YMMV. You might benefit from a USB external hard drive to use for backing up the laptop drive. Just remember, the hard drive is mechanical, and mechanical things fail.

By: hoborg

hoborg — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:23:44 -0800

I used to use DiskPie before it became un-freewared. Now I use EasyCleaner, which does the same thing and more. Give it a shot!

By: parma

parma — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:27:29 -0800

I second Yorrick's Spacemonger suggestion. I use it all the time.

By: Boobus Tuber

Boobus Tuber — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:04:26 -0800

Also WinDirStat. It's like SequioaView, but also with a text listing of directories.

By: blag

blag — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:28:40 -0800

Spacemonger is great.