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.
