Comments on: Application that Visually Displays XP Folders in a Pie Graph

Question: Application that Visually Displays XP Folders in a Pie Graph

abbyladybug — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:49:06 -0800

I used to have a little software application that would assess my hard drive and display a colorful pie graph of folders and subfolders, so that it was very easy to visually determine the location of the file bulk. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? Bonus points for freeware.

By: exhilaration

exhilaration — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:53:24 -0800

I like Dirgraph. Freeware and open source.

By: hootch

hootch — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:20:39 -0800

Spacemonger does this. The free version doesn't do pie graphs, but there's still a visual representation of what folders are taking up the most space.

By: unexpected

unexpected — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:26:53 -0800

dude, WinDirStat

By: porpoise

porpoise — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:35:18 -0800

Not a piegraph, but perhaps Sequoiaview?

By: Cosine

Cosine — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:41:58 -0800

Treesize, I've used it for a while now, lots of options.

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:53:00 -0800

JDiskReport does pie charts. It's free and cross-platform too.

By: geekyguy

geekyguy — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:17:25 -0800

I'll second the recomendation by unexpected for WinDirStat. It is not only freeware but open-source freeware.

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:22:06 -0800

I second Treesize.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:41:19 -0800

porpoise writes "Not a piegraph, but perhaps Sequoiaview?"

SequoiaView rocks.

By: one

one — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:34:17 -0800

I've used Diskpie.

By: Lazlo

Lazlo — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:19:34 -0800

WinDirStat is a essentially a more usable version of SequoiaView. It adds the ability to scan more than one drive at once, automatic treemap coloring, a breakdown of space used by file type, and a highly-sortable hierarchical directory listing of the scanned filesystems that stays in sync with whatever you click on the treemap.

By: criticalsass

criticalsass — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:23:39 -0800

It might be mac only, but I use Disk Inventory X and I find it quite useful.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:09:59 -0800

thanks for windirstat! I just cleaned out over 15 gigs of files I didn't know I still had.

By: abbyladybug

abbyladybug — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:33:31 -0800

Thanks, everyone. I love the Pac-man aspect of WinDirStat. I figured out right after posting this that I was thinking about FolderSizes, but I think I like some of these others even better!