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QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

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Re: QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

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vilya wrote: post #17

Gosh there are a lot of these programs, aren't there? For some reason I find it really hard to read these tree map visualisations. I know the theory and all that, but for me they just aren't an intuitive way of displaying that kind of information. For me a radial graph (i.e. pie chart like) is much easier to grok - I don't even have to think about it, I just get it. Seems like there must be plenty of people who don't…

The DaisyDisk website is surprisingly ugly and does not do their app justice.

Here's what the app looks like: http://www.creativeapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/...

Ever since I've ditched macOS I've been waiting to find a similarly designed app for Windows.

EDIT: Just tried Diskitude, but it's unfortunately nothing like DaisyDisk. It doesn't do the same drill-down DD does.

Re: QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

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Post by ComputerGuru »

dawnerd wrote: post #10
0x0 wrote: post #8

Similar tool for native macOS: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

Another good one (paid) https://daisydiskapp.com/ Slightly prefer it over the other visualizers as you can easily stage files to be deleted.

and it doesn't look like it was designed in the late 80s.

Re: QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

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Post by vilya »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #21
vilya wrote: post #17

Gosh there are a lot of these programs, aren't there? For some reason I find it really hard to read these tree map visualisations. I know the theory and all that, but for me they just aren't an intuitive way of displaying that kind of information. For me a radial graph (i.e. pie chart like) is much easier to grok - I don't even have to think about it, I just get it. Seems like there must be plenty of people who don't…

The DaisyDisk website is surprisingly ugly and does not do their app justice. Here's what the app looks like: http://www.creativeapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/... Ever since I've ditched macOS I've been waiting to find a similarly designed app for Windows. EDIT: Just tried Diskitude, but it's unfortunately nothing like DaisyDisk. It doesn't do the same drill-down DD does.

You can drill down in Diskitude by right clicking. I agree it's not as nice as Daisy Disk, but it's the best I've found for Windows (for my tastes) and you can't beat the price...

Re: QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

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Post by seanwilson »

makmanalp wrote: post #4
igitur wrote: post #3

Anything like this, but ncurses based?

I use ncdu ( https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu ) all the time, no treemap though.

This program is awesome. It's useful for e.g. quickly running in a website project folder to figure out what's taking up space as you can browse and delete files as you go.

Re: QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

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Post by rincebrain »

mmozeiko wrote: post #5
jpalomaki wrote: post #2

Similar tool for windows: https://windirstat.net

Here's WizTree which is similar to WinDirStat but runs much faster: http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-f...

I would suspect it works in a similar fashion to this[1] modification of WinDirStat, which parses the MFT to do rapid scanning, but loses the ability to selectively refresh parts of the tree.

It is, however, F/OSS.

[1] - https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat

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