Where did all the space go?

Southy · 09-23-2005, 04:34 PM

Is it possible to run a program that will do something like scan through your computer and find out where all of your hard drive space is being taken up? Like give you a listing of each folder and say, this folder contains so many gb or mb etc and so on.... ?

Lordmord · 09-23-2005, 04:43 PM

DiskIndex 1.3.1 is the program i think your looking for. Just do to download.com and do a search for it.

**SFR** · 09-23-2005, 04:43 PM

The old-fashion way:

Take a few minutes and go to explorer and right click on the desired folders and click on properties... then go into the sub folders and do the same thing...

You can even right everything down... ..its not a wonderful GUI interface that will do everything for you instantly, but its a way

[-0MEGA-] · 09-23-2005, 05:10 PM

i bet all your data that you dont know where its coming from is either your My Documents Folder, or your Program Folder.

And if there was a program to tell you how much space each folder and sub-folder was taking up, there would be way too many to look through.

helmie · 09-23-2005, 06:02 PM

Another one that can take up loads of room is the unzipped folder. I had 8GB in there...................

09-23-2005, 04:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
Southy Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 233	Where did all the space go? Is it possible to run a program that will do something like scan through your computer and find out where all of your hard drive space is being taken up? Like give you a listing of each folder and say, this folder contains so many gb or mb etc and so on.... ?

09-23-2005, 04:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
SFR SUPER MODERATOR Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: San Diego, USA Age: 24 Posts: 3,909	The old-fashion way: Take a few minutes and go to explorer and right click on the desired folders and click on properties... then go into the sub folders and do the same thing... You can even right everything down... ..its not a wonderful GUI interface that will do everything for you instantly, but its a way __________________ The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~Sydney J. Harris I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. ~Oscar Levant Relax, its only Ones and Zeros

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[-0MEGA-] Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 19 Posts: 26,409	i bet all your data that you dont know where its coming from is either your My Documents Folder, or your Program Folder. And if there was a program to tell you how much space each folder and sub-folder was taking up, there would be way too many to look through. __________________ Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.83GHz Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L ATI HD 3870 GDDR4 @ (840/2332) 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2-850 500GB SATAII HD w/16MB SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 11593

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helmie Diamond Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Highlands, Scotland Age: 17 Posts: 1,208	Another one that can take up loads of room is the unzipped folder. I had 8GB in there................... __________________ For sale: http://www.computerforum.com/111463-...tml#post893380

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09-23-2005, 04:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
Lordmord Silver Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 174	DiskIndex 1.3.1 is the program i think your looking for. Just do to download.com and do a search for it.