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KDE: Filelight, https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kdeutils/filelight/introducti...

Windows: WinDirStat

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Mac: Disk Inventory X http://www.derlien.com/

Download link is broken.

Alternative ways to download:

a) Use brew: brew install Caskroom/cask/disk-inventory-x

b) Another download link (same link used in brew/cask)[0]: http://www.derlien.com/diskinventoryx/downloads/dev/DIX1.0Un...

0: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...

WinDirStat helped me figure out what was using 25 gig on my c: last week, very useful tool.

Seconded. My initial suspect was Dropbox. Windirstat helped me find it was some Trusted Installer-related bug filling the machine with corrupted cab files.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3112358/microsoft-windows/w...

Filelight-like for Windows: Scanner http://steffengerlach.de/freeware/index.html

(but maybe Filelight itself is available, since it uses Qt5 now)

I've always liked k4dirstat[1] for this instead. It's a much nicer output and a lot easier to parse/work with[2].

[1] https://bitbucket.org/jeromerobert/k4dirstat/wiki/Home [2] https://community.linuxmint.com/img/screenshots/k4dirstat.pn...

Nice, but... can these tools have a toggle to do the icicle layout (like the flame graph), not just the sunburst layout? I've commented elsewhere in this thread as to why the sunburst is worse.

WinDirStat does a map-like view where blocks are grouped by folders.

KFilelight only does sunburst I think, but I also have to say I like that, because it's easy to navigate (large click-able surface area).

qdirstat is a good Linux port of WinDirStat.

No, QDirStat is NOT a port of WinDirStat. WinDirStat is a port to Windows of KDirStat, the successor of QDirStat.

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