The selected element will be detailed with its content. You need more detail on a big folder? Just single click on it. Bigger are the elements on the view, bigger are folders and files on your disk. Start a scan process and see the overall situation. Among the best are WizTree, DiskSavvy, and TreeSize. There are many alternative disk space analyzers for Windows. Which are other good Space Sniffer alternatives? Space Sniffer is Windows only, but an alternative for macOS called GrandPerspective works similarly. The author accepts donations for further development. Space Sniffer is great for identifying big apps or files you can delete to recover space on your storage drive. Space Sniffer scans your storage drives in real time and lets you visualize how your files and folders are structured and which files are taking the most space. Ben Shneiderman, who kindly permitted the use of his concept into this tool. By using a Treemap visualization layout, you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices. It seems I hit this bug, which causes the windows.edb which is the windows search cache, to bloat out.Ī quick rebuild and so far it seems fine.SpaceSniffer is a freeware (donations are welcome) and portable tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. I checked the whole drive, which took some time, and found the following: It does error on some protected paths, even when run from PowerShell as an administrator, I think you could get around that by running it as a service account, but I didn’t need to in this case. I wrote a quick and dirty script to take a starting directory, and recurses all directories, measuring the size for each one, You can find the script on my Github here: I turned to the tool that solves all problems, PowerShell. I cleared it down a couple of times, and within a day or two it was full again
One of my machines was inexplicably running out of hard drive space on it’s OS drive.
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