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Best free tool to find largest files and folders on a drive
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?

does anyone know a free software that will graph the directories on my hard drive and sort them in order of largest size?

or provide me a solution for me to quickly determine what drives/ files are consuming my hard drive space?

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kacalapy
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    What OS? You need to provide more information –  Jan 05 '11 at 15:41
  • This question would be better suited for SU – Josh Brower Jan 05 '11 at 15:52
  • Oh, I found another one: http://superuser.com/questions/8248/best-program-to-visualize-file-system-usage-on-windows – Bobby Jan 05 '11 at 16:20
  • @Bobby So how do you know the user is on Windows? – Daniel Beck Jan 05 '11 at 16:46
  • @Daniel Beck: Good point...was a wild guess, a Linux/MacOSX/anyOtherOsUser would have, most likely, mentioned it. – Bobby Jan 09 '11 at 19:17
  • Seeing which folder is the biggest doesn't really help, though. I cleared 11 GB a few days ago and now I have 3 free. I need to know which folders are getting hugely bigger over time, not just which ones are hugely big. – endolith Feb 06 '16 at 00:52

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I've had really good luck with windirstat, if you're on Windows of course.

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You can use utilities such as KDirStat (Linux/KDE) to visualize where your free space went.

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WinDirStat is a similar tool for Windows.

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Disk Inventory X is for Mac OS X.

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  • Very succinct answer and I like the screenshots. I've used gt5 on linux in the past but I'm going to give kdirstat a try. – Paul Brannan Feb 18 '15 at 16:21
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For windows- have a look at getfoldersize - it doesn't graph but it does sort by usage and allows you to drill down and find high usage sub directories etc.

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If you're using a *nix environment it's quick to just use du -sh /dir to find offensively sized directories. It's somewhat crude, but quick and effective.

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