DirSize

Directory Sizes

Its uses include:

• Finding space hogs on a network
• Finding multiple copies of a single application on a server
• Finding which directories could be archived to save space (typically those that contain lots of small files)
• Finding where most of the disk space is used
• Finding applications to remove before installing a new one
• Previewing the benefits of a smaller cluster size
• Generating daily, weekly or monthly reports showing how the disk space distribution has changed. You can easily generate html, tab- or comma-delimited output to feed directly into your favorite spreadsheet for further analysis
• Showing you the complete directory tree
• See sample HTML report

On large hard disks up to 1/4 of the total drive space is wasted! DirSize will show you where.

DirSize includes both a 32-bit version and a 16-bit version for backward compatibility. The 32-bit version of DirSize runs under Microsoft® Windows® 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Windows Vista® and Vista 64. The 16 bit version of DirSize runs under DOS, Windows 3.x, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP, but does not show long filenames.

User Benefits

• New! DirSize can now ignore the sizes of offline files.
• The directory tree can be limited to just those branches showing more than a specified amount e.g. 20 MB. This is very useful to find out who is hogging space on a network.
• Displays Windows 95 long filenames.
• Uses international thousands separator based on country information.
• For the drive, displays cluster size, free space, used space and capacity.
• For each directory shown, displays total space used, wasted space (either as a percentage or as an actual value) and directory name. If the directory has sub-directories, it also shows the combined total -this is very useful for finding the complete size of applications before deletion or backup.
• For the files examined, displays total used space, total wasted space and the cluster size used (the user can specify a size other than the drives actual cluster size so that they can see how much space would be wasted under a different configuration).
• Rounds up file sizes to the cluster size AND includes the size of each directory for the most accurate size information.
• Fully scrollable output (both up and down).
• Comma-delimited and tab-delimited output formats for easy importing into databases, spreadsheets or word processors.
• Future proof - directory sizes up to 99 GB are catered for.
• Output can be redirected to a file or to the printer.
• The characters used to draw the directory tree can be changed from DOS extended ASCII characters to standard ASCII characters.
• The statistics can be disabled to show just a directory tree.
• Directory sorting can be disabled. This is useful for comparing DirSize's output with an unsorted DIR output.
• Continuous progress indicator while accumulating file information.

Feedback

• I've just started to use [DirSize] at home. I found the wasted space info particularly useful.
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• I just tried out your utility DIRSIZE and am very impressed with it.
• Thanks for use of dirsize... been very helpful for personal use. Being able to see "wasted space" is a useful addition. The bigger drives get, the more we waste.
• thank you for developing a fine product. it is very useful to me to maintain order on my hard drive. I basically use your program in a Win95 DOS box to write a text file for each of my 6 drives and then I print it out. Then I can see what is taking up valuable space.
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• Thanks for your useful and elegant program.
• The database export option works great. Thanks for adding it.
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• I obtained a copy of your nifty program from a friend, after he gave me a demonstration.
• I just was tired of waiting for Norton Commander to calculate the Size of a big Subdir of a CDROM. About 2000+ Files took more than 5 Minutes. So I had a quick look at a SIMTEL Mirror and found DIRSIZE v2.5. I was impressed how fast it worked, even on my 1.6G Hard disk.
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