Download of the day: SpaceMonger

Robert Hallock 14 Oct, 2008 at 10:19am ET Article published in Tech

Managing the contents of a hard drive, especially the temporary file-filled system drive, can be a chore. Capacity-draining hidden files, temporary folders and unneeded resources are lurking all over the place. How to find them? How to identify them? Do you even know they’re there?

SpaceMonger steps in to provide a visual map of a selected partition. The bigger the folder, the bigger it will appear on the block diagram the program provides. SpaceMonger is a fantastic way to identify wasted space without aimlessly scouring directories.

While there’s a newer version available, version 1.4 is very capable and — more importantly — completely free!

Comments

14 Oct 2008 ~ 11:02am jared All you Mac users out there, here is the similar Mac equivalent:

Disk Inventory X [http://www.derlien.com/]

A must have app as well for OSX.
14 Oct 2008 ~ 11:09am Kwitko A similar program is WinDirStat, also free and open-source.
16 Dec 2008 ~ 12:11am Your-Amish-Daddy Doesn't work in Vista 64.
16 Dec 2008 ~ 1:11am Snarkasm Thrax doesn't care. Get a real operating system.
16 Dec 2008 ~ 1:55am Thrax Couldn't have said it better myself.
16 Dec 2008 ~ 3:03am Leonardo Neat little tool.