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Re: SpaceMonger

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Post by pheasantquiff » Sun, Aug 07, 2022, 11:27 AM UTC

lillecarl wrote: post #13

I use "ncdu" on Linux and Mac, when I ran windows I ran WinDirStat, not because it's the best, but because it's floss

Thanks for [ncdu]. I like it and had not heard of it.

I see no mention of [KDirStat] http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ of which, the much more famous, but later, [WinDirStat], is a clone.

Re: SpaceMonger

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Post by streblo » Sun, Aug 07, 2022, 11:27 AM UTC

shireboy wrote: post #2

Windirstat is similar and my go-to for this on PC. Is there a similar Mac/Linux app?

GrandPerspective is free and has a lot of feature overlap http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

Re: SpaceMonger

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Post by nokya » Sun, Aug 07, 2022, 1:42 PM UTC

D13Fd wrote: post #18

I still use this regularly. I literally used it yesterday. It’s a great solution to the problem of “how can I tell what is taking up all of the space on my drive”

Same here. Spacemonger along with a very old version of Paintshop pro (paid) have been moving around my systems for almost two decades. Everytime I reinstall my computer I verify that I still have these two faithful programs somewhere.

Re: SpaceMonger

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Post by smusamashah » Sun, Aug 07, 2022, 3:27 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #40

smusamashah wrote: post #39

They have stopped developing it long time ago. Current alternative is SpaceSniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

> They have stopped developing it long time ago. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I still use it and it does exactly what I want it to do - help me figure out what’s using up all of the space on my disk. It used to usually be media files. These days it’s usually Windows.

I used it back in days of 98 and XP. There were things they were going to develop. They were related to search I think. Don't remember. They remained only partially implemented.

SpaceSniffer on the other hand don't have that many features but it's very fast. If you are cleaning up files, you can see the size of boxes getting smaller in realtime as files being deleted.

Re: SpaceMonger

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Post by sliken » Mon, Aug 08, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

ndom91 wrote: post #10

shireboy wrote: post #2

Windirstat is similar and my go-to for this on PC. Is there a similar Mac/Linux app?

I've used duc on Linux for a while. Can recommend. https://duc.zevv.nl/

I like, I've been working on a faster parallel scanner written in go for the really large filesystems, in my env it's around 10x faster. In any case I find the scan -> database which the client can view quickly very useful.

Also note that there's text based, graphical, and web interfaces to view the database.