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Here’s a little Windows application that I’ve found very useful on several occasions: SpaceMonger.

SpaceMonger shows your filesystem usage as a Treemap. i.e. every directory in C: \ is represented by a rectangle with an area proportional to the volume of data within. Each rectangle contains more rectangles to represent subdirectories, with their areas scaled in the same way.

This makes it very easy to find out what files are really wasting space on your disk.

Having said that, I’ve freed up quite a lot of space today by searching for and deleting PKTMP*.* — temporary files left lying around by PKZip for Windows. These were scattered all over the place, and only large in aggregate. SpaceMonger isn’t the tool to find this kind of storage hoggery.

What other cool uses of treemaps are there?

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