Max Arwood Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 (edited) https://diskanalyzer.com/download WizTree - fastest disk space analyzer for Windows I might be the only one here with full hard drives. Lol. This Wiztree is about the fastest coolest file space analyzer I have ever seen. Edited November 1 by Max Arwood 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 I've used TreeSize for years. It's more usable and less graphic, plus you can export results to Excel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 (edited) I like the spreadsheet, Excel idea. That sounds great. I’ll try it too. The graphics and scan took 1.5 minute on old 2tb ssd. You would have to use the graphics and look at them to say if you didn’t like them. You can click on groups of things. They’re all categorized by what goes with what you can also delete items from the graphic or the top. Thanks for Treesize. I will look into that.. Edited October 14 by Max Arwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 I found out a few things I REALLY didn’t know. Blue cat plugins free addition 16-20gig! I don’t understand this because there’s no samples like a convolution reverb or something like that. I found three or four plug-in groups that were extremely high like this, and not reverbs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeringAmps Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 4 hours ago, Max Arwood said: found three or four plug-in groups that were extremely high like this, and not reverbs. Interesting! t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 Not having used them, but given the installer for the whole pack is only a couple hundred MB, that sounds like some sort of file or folder corruption? Let us know what files you actually find in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted October 15 Author Share Posted October 15 (edited) It must have been really late! I think that must have been a decimal place off. I don't see that anywhere! This program also does CSV data export. 8.5 sec on spinner drive! Scan, list and graphics! It must be using the FAT data. Edited October 15 by Max Arwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 16 Share Posted October 16 15 hours ago, Max Arwood said: It must have been really late! I think that must have been a decimal place off. I don't see that anywhere! Even 1.6-2gb (vs 16-20gb) would be a tremendous amount compared to the installer size.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 Longtime fan of WizTree. I consider it an essential Windows utility. Great for sniffing out redundant installers, as well as deciding whether a plug-in's data is taking up so much disk space that it's not worth keeping around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Sorice Posted October 23 Share Posted October 23 I’ve been using WizTree forever. It’s great. I also recommend adding Everything by voidtools to your toolbox. Finds files instantly. It’s amazing. https://www.voidtools.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Arwood Posted October 23 Author Share Posted October 23 Thanks Sal, I have been using Copenic Desktop. You have to use an older version, because they charge for it now. Get version 2.02 Don't be tricked by "Don't you want to update now!" You will have to pay. I have to shut it off, because it wants to reindex in the background after 2min pause. I'll check voidtools. When and how does it index files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Sorice Posted October 24 Share Posted October 24 16 hours ago, Max Arwood said: Thanks Sal, I have been using Copenic Desktop. You have to use an older version, because they charge for it now. Get version 2.02 Don't be tricked by "Don't you want to update now!" You will have to pay. I have to shut it off, because it wants to reindex in the background after 2min pause. I'll check voidtools. When and how does it index files? Hi Max. Not at my PC, but think it can run as a service and index in background or you can just run it as needed. The database updates really quick when you fire up the utility. Has lots of options for what to index, exclude etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 On 10/24/2024 at 5:51 AM, Sal Sorice said: it can run as a service and index in background or you can just run it as needed. The database updates really quick when you fire up the utility. Has lots of options for what to index, exclude etc. What makes it superior to Windows' own indexing? My first guess is versatility, but what form does that take? Another fave utility of mine is Auslogics Duplicate File Finder. Not hard to figure out what its purpose is from the name. It's great for sniffing out things like redundant installers, and instances where I somehow installed program or plug-in content in multiple locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user 905133 Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 On 10/23/2024 at 8:37 AM, Sal Sorice said: I also recommend adding Everything by voidtools to your toolbox. Finds files instantly. It’s amazing. Nice to find another fan of Everything! (pun intended 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Sorice Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 13 hours ago, Starship Krupa said: What makes it superior to Windows' own indexing? My first guess is versatility, but what form does that take? Another fave utility of mine is Auslogics Duplicate File Finder. Not hard to figure out what its purpose is from the name. It's great for sniffing out things like redundant installers, and instances where I somehow installed program or plug-in content in multiple locations. I think it's waaay faster and more reliable than Windows indexing. It also has a lot of useful filtering options, etc. - and it does not have to be always running. You can fire it up as needed and it updates its database in seconds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 On 10/13/2024 at 9:51 PM, Max Arwood said: I might be the only one here with full hard drives. Lol. You are not. Anyone who DAW's on a laptop knows the woes of bumping up against drive space and having no easy way to remedy it. Suggestion: rename this topic "favorite Windows utilities?" LatencyMon and others that Cakewalk users find particularly useful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said: You are not. Anyone who DAW's on a laptop knows the woes of bumping up against drive space and having no easy way to remedy it. I have boxes of (dozens of) harddrives from the decades of doing this, each one filled up, then eventually cloned to a new larger one.... (I don't think I still have the ancient 5MB (yes, megabyte) HDD, though; probably all the RLL/MFMs are gone). Then I have a few of the biggest in external USB cases so I can access their files at need, or backup stuff to, and then a small box of "bare" SATA drives that I can drop into a couple of USB-SATA cradles ala Dollhouse Wedges for the same purposes. (then there are the boxes of floppies and "stiffies" from the age before affordable harddrives, back in my Amiga daze, and the stiffies for my old EPS16+ I wish I still had....I wonder if any of them is still readable?) Edited October 31 by Amberwolf 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Burned CD-ROM's Zip drives, Jaz drives, 320K floppies, 1.44M floppies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said: Burned CD-ROM's Zip drives, Jaz drives, 320K floppies, 1.44M floppies.... Forgot about the cd/dvd backups and the zip cartridge backup copies of the Ensoniq EPS/ASR SCSI harddisks...oh, and I might still have a few cassettes with stuff off a Vic20 stuck in with my audio tapes. :lol: Oh, and the dats and other backup cartridges. (most of that stuff I don't have a working drive to read anymore; wish I had an audio dat to read the old recordings I made back when...) The various capacity floppies from 5.25" to 8", and the 3.5" "stiffies" include stuff going back to pre-amiga days and the early x86 pc's. None of that includes the things in my "media/memory" collection, which is one of as many kinds of computer storage as I have run across free or nearly free over the years: bubble memory, assorted kinds of ram boards, assorted widths of computer open-reel media, couple of cartridge media types, some core memory, punch cards, punched paper tape rolls, etc. Sorry for the OTness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 prepping for a post-EMP world where only tube electronics survive, i'm backing up finished songs onto vinyl. https://teenage.engineering/products/po-80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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