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FOLDER TREESIZE INSTALL

The cushion shading additionally brings out the directory structure. The color of a rectangle indicates the type of the file, as shown in the extension list. So their area is proportional to the size of the subtrees. The rectangles are arranged in such a way, that directories again make up rectangles, which contain all their files and subdirectories. The treemap represents each file as a colored rectangle, the area of which is proportional to the file's size. The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.This has the effect of making the Windows directory appear larger than it really is I think the best solution is to split Size into two concepts: Logical Size and Physical size.

The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away, Sizes are difficult to interpret correctly Since Windows Vista, the system makes use of hard links, where the same physical file can appear in multiple directory entries.

The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,.

On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: Please visit the WinDirStat blog for more up-to-date information about the program. I keep both around because I like treesize free better, but windirstat will do network drives.

FOLDER TREESIZE INSTALL

Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat ( apt-get install kdirstat or apt-get install k4dirstat on Debian-derivatives) or QDirStat and for MacOS X it would be Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective. I have always used treesize and windirstat. WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows. Latest version: 1.1.2 Windows Directory Statistics WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics