{"id":898,"date":"2012-12-15T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T04:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=898"},"modified":"2012-12-15T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T04:48:46","slug":"finding-large-files-or-folders-on-a-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2012\/12\/finding-large-files-or-folders-on-a-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding large files or folders on a drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a title=\"Toshiba Z830 Satellite Ultrabook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mytoshiba.com.au\/products\/computers\/ultrabook\/z830\/pt22la-001001\" target=\"_blank\">Toshiba Ultrabook<\/a> has a 128G SSD drive and it is kinda small. I&#8217;ve just gone through the process of some clean up to remove unused apps and archive data files.<\/p>\n<p>In the process I tried a number of free &#8220;Large File Finder&#8221; type applications and there are two that I really like.<\/p>\n<p>The first is <a title=\"WinDirStat finding large files and folders\" href=\"http:\/\/windirstat.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">WinDirStat <\/a>which provides a neat graphical view as well as a file list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/test2\/files\/2012\/12\/WinDirStat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-900\" title=\"WinDirStat\" src=\"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/test2\/files\/2012\/12\/WinDirStat-300x154.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other is from Extensoft called <a title=\"Free Disk Analyzer Extensoft find large files and folders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extensoft.com\/?p=free_disk_analyzer\" target=\"_blank\">Free Disk Analyzer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/test2\/files\/2012\/12\/FreeDiskAnalyzer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-901\" title=\"FreeDiskAnalyzer\" src=\"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/test2\/files\/2012\/12\/FreeDiskAnalyzer-300x154.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve prepared two simple screenshots showing each one after I used them on my drive when it was over-crowded. Since then I&#8217;ve done a clean up.<\/p>\n<p>I think the visual aid of WinDirStat is helpful, but I am a simple lists type user (changing the default Windows view to Details list is normal, and using Linux ls -la, is my default setting) and I think Free Disk Analyzer is my first go-to tool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Toshiba Ultrabook has a 128G SSD drive and it is kinda small. I&#8217;ve just gone through the process of some clean up to remove unused apps and archive data files. In the process I tried a number of free &#8220;Large File Finder&#8221; type applications and there are two that I really like. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,23],"tags":[49,108],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-links","category-windows-software","tag-find-large-files","tag-windows-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}