Here’s a cool tool to help you find what’s on your hard drive and where all its space is going to. It’s called JDiskReport. JDiskReport is a file management tool for your hard drive(s). Because it runs on Java, you can use it on most platforms – Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.
It scanned my 40GB hard drive in about 10 minutes and presented a nice pie chart of the results, allowing me to drill down to the detail of the various folders that are consuming space.
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Double-clicking on a folder allows you to drill down and find out more detail. A Top 50 shows a list of the top 50 largest files in a folder. Other features of JDiskReport include:
- Clicking on a folder in the left side folder tree will display in the graph
- Scan any drive including network drives
- Distribution of sizes per folder
- Distribution of modification dates per folder
- Disctribution of file types per folder
- Embeds itself in Explorer so it’s available when you right-click on a folder
- Print capabilities
Although a very specific program, JDiskReporter contains valuable information about your hard drive to help you manage it better.
You can download JDiskReport here.
naples park homes says
Never heard about JDiskReport report before. I never thought I’m going to need it. But after reading this, I reckon that I just might. Thanks for sharing this. I’ll go check this out.
Tim Ryan