Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Running out of diskspace? Identifying Large Folders Using Treesize

Fun day at work, wondering why my Windows 7 machine is running so slow, stalling, spinning cursor, all that cheese.

After doing some preliminary checking, it occured to me to check the diskspace. Hello. I needed to find out why I was down to 10 GB on a 140GB drive.

Searched for what people are using nowadays and ended up using this free utility program call Treesize. They, Jam Software, have other versions. But for what I needed the free version was perfect.


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

I highly recommend this program.

Treesize screenshot

It was surprising to learn that my Dropbox folder was the main culprit. I need to go through and be a bit more selective on what directories I will be syncing on my work computer.
Well, I better get to it. Aloha!