TreeSize Free

"TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.

The freeware can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive
and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders in an
Explorer-like fashion. Large folders can be identified at a glance
thanks to the gradient bar displayed in the background. All scan results
can be drilled down to file level and filters, e.g. for files of a
certain type, can be applied."

Portable http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

TPaye wrote on 2/14/2015 8:53 AM:
"TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.

The freeware can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive
and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders in an
Explorer-like fashion. Large folders can be identified at a glance
thanks to the gradient bar displayed in the background. All scan results
can be drilled down to file level and filters, e.g. for files of a
certain type, can be applied."

Portable http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

Yep cool utility. I've pointed it out to a lot of people that want to know where disk space is going.
Not that some of the folders you can do anything about :-)

On 2/14/2015 7:53 AM, TPaye wrote:
"TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.

The freeware can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive
and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders in an
Explorer-like fashion. Large folders can be identified at a glance
thanks to the gradient bar displayed in the background. All scan results
can be drilled down to file level and filters, e.g. for files of a
certain type, can be applied."

Portable http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

Thanks Tpaye and Big Al, That is the neatest utility I have seen in a
long time, I always wanted something like this, don't know how I didn't
find it sooner.

Best Regards, Rene

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:53:40 -0500, TPaye wrote:

"TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.


Precious disk space? Seriously? The 1990s called: they want their
10 GB disk drives back.


--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

TPaye wrote:

"TreeSize Free ...

Not an appropriate newsgroup for your freeware announcement. Your same
multi-posted message in the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup was the
appropriate place.

Stan Brown wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:53:40 -0500, TPaye wrote:
"TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.


Precious disk space? Seriously? The 1990s called: they want their
10 GB disk drives back.



I just had some fun with Everything from voidtools.com.

I used the Portable version.

http://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.3.4.686.x64.zip

Unzip, and there is a single file inside, Everything.exe .

Go to Start, type in "cmd", when the top option
appears (to start a Command Promot window), right
click and select "Run as Administrator".

When the Command Prompt window opens, navigate
to where the Everything.exe portable version
is sitting.

cd \
cd C:\users\username\Downloads
dir Everything*

That will verify your executable is sitting there. It
should be listed.

Now for the fun part.

Everything -create-filelist output.efu "C:"

I had a bit of trouble getting the path syntax right
on the first try. At first, there was no output file,
and no diagnostic. But once I changed to C:, it worked.

It produced a 26MB output listing (text file), as
the "output.efu". It's a comma separated file. And
it created that file listing, in about 1 second!
The impressive part was the speed.

I popped that into the LibreOffice Spreadsheet program.
Highlighted the "size" column. Selected Data:Sort.
Clicked "extend selection" (so the size column is used
as the sort key for the entire width of the file.
Selected "Descending", so that the biggest file would
be at the top of the spreadsheet.

And then saved out as a .csv again.

Now I know that "install.esd" is the largest
file on my C: drive. Followed by pagefile (which
it looks like I manually set a bit smaller than usual).
My C: has no hiberfile, as hibernation is turned off
(powercfg -h off).

The "everything.exe" was able to list the contents of

C:\System Volume Information

which I consider to be the acid test for listing programs.
For example, the Microsoft "nfi.exe" utility, won't
list the contents of "C:\System Volume Information".

*******

I do hope that the original poster "KG" in the original
thread comes back to the newsgroup, so we can find out
whether anything helped or not. Polite feedback is
apparently a luxury these days.

Paul

On 2/14/2015 12:02 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
TPaye wrote:

"TreeSize Free ...

Not an appropriate newsgroup for your freeware announcement. Your same
multi-posted message in the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup was the
appropriate place.


I think it was appropriate as it is a Windows utility and is Free.
Furthermore I would not have found it on my own and I find it a real
handy util.

Regards, Rene

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2/14/2015 12:02 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
TPaye wrote:

"TreeSize Free ...

Not an appropriate newsgroup for your freeware announcement. Your same
multi-posted message in the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup was the
appropriate place.


I think it was appropriate as it is a Windows utility and is Free.
Furthermore I would not have found it on my own and I find it a real
handy util.

Regards, Rene


Yes, but imagine if every program listed on CNET,
the dude writing it came here and spammed it.

It would make the newsgroup unusable for helping people.

That alt.comp.freeware group is a perfect place
to advertise such programs. People who collect
programs, live over there. And they're your
best advertising.

Paul

Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2/14/2015 12:02 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
TPaye wrote:

"TreeSize Free ...

Not an appropriate newsgroup for your freeware announcement. Your
same multi-posted message in the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup was the
appropriate place.


I think it was appropriate as it is a Windows utility and is Free.
Furthermore I would not have found it on my own and I find it a real
handy util.

Regards, Rene


Yes, but imagine if every program listed on CNET,
the dude writing it came here and spammed it.

It would make the newsgroup unusable for helping people.

That alt.comp.freeware group is a perfect place
to advertise such programs. People who collect
programs, live over there. And they're your
best advertising.

Paul

I find it interesting that there is a thread named "Something is filling
my HD" and freeware programs were recommended in the thread to determine
what was happening. It seems to me that TreeSize would be a good
program for the individual to find out what is filling up the HD.
--
Bill

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska

Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2/14/2015 12:02 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
TPaye wrote:

"TreeSize Free ...
Not an appropriate newsgroup for your freeware announcement. Your
same multi-posted message in the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup was the
appropriate place.

I think it was appropriate as it is a Windows utility and is Free.
Furthermore I would not have found it on my own and I find it a real
handy util.

Regards, Rene

Yes, but imagine if every program listed on CNET,
the dude writing it came here and spammed it.

It would make the newsgroup unusable for helping people.

That alt.comp.freeware group is a perfect place
to advertise such programs. People who collect
programs, live over there. And they're your
best advertising.

Paul

I find it interesting that there is a thread named "Something is filling
my HD" and freeware programs were recommended in the thread to determine
what was happening. It seems to me that TreeSize would be a good
program for the individual to find out what is filling up the HD.

So the fact that the "KG" individual hasn't
responded, what does that tell you ? That there
wasn't a problem in the first place, and this
is a two thread "drive by".

A person who has a "disk filling" problem, may need
more than a TreeSize solution. Sometimes there is a
program continuously gobbling up space. So more
forensic work will be required to stop it. If this
"KG" person really existed and had a problem, by
getting feedback from the person, there would be
an opportunity to help. By dumping one posting
and running off, "KG" is wasting our time (24
responses).

Say for example, I put a posting in this group

"Jesus, I have a splitting headache"

Then I walk away for a day, and people sit there
wasting their time suggesting solutions. Then I come
in early the next day with a

"Buy my Aspirin Extra Strength, now $3.47 at Walmart"

Would you be particularly happy about that ? What if
all the drug companies did the same thing, for
the entire contents of the Pharmaceutical Index ?

And if you way "Well, we should cut a poor
starving software developer some slack", where
would we stop ? Would we also cut a Chinese
guy selling knockoff branded sneakers some slack,
and accept sneaker adverts too ?

I don't have a problem if a developer participates
in a thread, happens to mention their product, but
provides full disclosure. "Hey, by the way, I
wrote that". But, when they make their posting,
there should also be substantive content where
it *looks* like they're trying to help, and
they're not there to just advertise.

Paul

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:33:56 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:53:40 -0500, TPaye wrote:

"TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.


Precious disk space? Seriously? The 1990s called: they want their
10 GB disk drives back.

Please note: I am commenting on the phrase, not the utility. I am
unfamiliar with the utility.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:49:13 -0500, Paul wrote:
I don't have a problem if a developer participates
in a thread, happens to mention their product, but
provides full disclosure. "Hey, by the way, I
wrote that". But, when they make their posting,
there should also be substantive content where
it *looks* like they're trying to help, and
they're not there to just advertise.

That's the rule I follow with my shareware. I don't bring it up
unless it's an actual solution to a problem posed in a thread.

I confess it would never occur to me to post a fake problem and then
offer a solution that was a disguised ad. Sometimes I'm so naive.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:33:56 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:53:40 -0500, TPaye wrote:

"TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.


Precious disk space? Seriously? The 1990s called: they want their
10 GB disk drives back.

The OP of the thread before that triggered this thread said this:

"I have a Dell XPS8300 sys. It has a 1TB HD and after the original
setup and program install the complied system was about 40GB in total
used space it has grown to over 511GB since the install in 2011."

I don't think he's sweating a fraction of a 10 GB drive.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:49:13 -0500, Paul wrote:

So the fact that the "KG" individual hasn't
responded, what does that tell you ? That there
wasn't a problem in the first place, and this
is a two thread "drive by".

Yes, it's a very rare event for someone to post here and then not reply
in the thread.

Clearly when it happens we need to ascribe nefarious intent.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Gene E. Bloch wrote on 2/14/2015 5:37 PM:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:49:13 -0500, Paul wrote:

So the fact that the "KG" individual hasn't
responded, what does that tell you ? That there
wasn't a problem in the first place, and this
is a two thread "drive by".

Yes, it's a very rare event for someone to post here and then not reply
in the thread.

Especially if it's you. :-)