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Folder Size is a free Windows utility that scans your drives or folders and displays detailed information about the size of their contents so you can see where the disk space went. It displays the sizes of files and folders as well as their percentage of total disk size.
Folder Size uses a layout common to many such utilities, mostly because it's the most efficient design: toolbar, left-hand tree view, and main window. Folder Size displayed all our disk drives with their total size, space used, and free space listed below the tree view. We clicked on our C drive and then clicked the Scan arrow. The program took a few minutes to scan 40GB of files; when it finished, it displayed the file structure in the tree view with the selected directory displayed in the main view. This view displayed file names and sizes; percentage of the total in numbers and bar graphs; total files, folders, and subfolders; dates created, modified, and accessed; attributes; and even the file's owner in expandable, draggable, rotating headings. We could also customize which headings we wanted to display and quickly choose file sizes from bytes to gigabytes. Buttons let us easily navigate through our file directories. The Help file is fairly basic, but then so is the program. It's not designed to do tricks; it simply displays detailed file information quickly, which is a much more useful and frequently needed capability than it seems.
The space below the main window displays charts of the program's findings, but we had trouble with this feature, possibly because it requires Adobe Flash Player installed in Internet Explorer to work. We had Flash Player in IE, but it's not available for 64-bit IE, and the Flash installer seemed to balk at the difference. The screenshots show nice-looking charts that can be printed and exported. We'd like to see either less reliance on IE or greater compatibility in accessing Flash, but beyond that, Folder Size is quite a useful tool.
Publisher's Description
From MindGems:
Folder Size will analyze your hard drives and display the file and folder sizes so that you can easily check the distribution of your disk space. The application will display the sizes of the folders and files and also the percentage of the total disk size that they occupy. The neat report can be sorted in order to identify the largest folders and the largest files. You can easily figure out which files or folders have filled up your dive space as Folder Size will also scan the sizes of all the subfolders. The application can scan your entire hard drive in minutes due to its optimized scan algorithms. The progressive scan will let you continue the scan from the point of interruption. Besides scanning an entire hard drive Folder Size can also scan a single folder in order to save time.
What's new in this version: Version 2.9 has added option not to list files in order to save memory on large volumes of more than 100 TB.
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All versions:
4.9 starsout of 7 votes
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Current version:
5.0 starsout of 5 votes
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"Does something W7 should do out of the box"
Version: Folder Size 2.9
Pros
Gives you a perfect view of where all your disk space is going
Cons
Takes about 3 minutes to scan a 400 gig disk. Has links to products you probably don't want that you can ignore.
Summary
Was exactly what I was looking for to find out why my half a terabyte was down to 5 gig of free space.
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"Rock Solid"
Version: Folder Size 2.9
Pros
Very Fast
Cool graphics
Nice reports
Correct resultsCons
Nothing worth mentioning
Summary
I first used the free Fast Duplicate File Finder tool from this company. I ordered both VSDIF and Audio Dedupe and I recommend them. Both are great tools.
And this one is a lifesaver. You can instantly see where your disk space is lost. -
"Nice little helper"
Version: Folder Size 2.9
Pros
Fast and easy to use.
Cons
None worth mentioning - requires FLASH for the charts to work, but it is definitely worth installing.
Summary
Try it and love it.
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"Impressive results"
Version: Folder Size 2.9
Pros
1. Very Fast
2. Supports immense number of image formats 500+
3. RAW support
4. Internal Preview
5. No crashes
6. Handles 100 000+ images quite fast - other tools just dieCons
1. The auto-check feature is a bit tricky
2. Some options are not clear out of the boxSummary
I wonder who posted those negative reviews. This is the best tool of its kind. I recommend this to all my fellow photographers!
A must have indeed. -
"Oddly it is completely free without any spam - a GEM!"
Version: Folder Size 2.9
Pros
Scans my drives in minutes.
Great interface.
Fancy charts.
Option to integrate in Windows ExplorerCons
None so far
Summary
This tool reveals the used space on your hard drives in minutes and you can easily see where are the space hogs. Very stable tool and very fast, much better than anything else that I have tried.
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