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Sometimes, modules can be heavy because, among other reasons like too big music files, there are a lot of leftover inside the folders.
The standard thing to do would be to check the properties of each top level folder and navigate your way down until the culprit files and folders are found. This could certainly waste a lot of time and isn’t efficient.
Recently, I discovered a program to check the size of all files in a folder in a very practical way: Space Sniffer
I liked it a lot because apart from being fast, it’s visual treemap layout can quickly give a very good idea of which files or folders are taking up the biggest amount of space on your drive. This has an advantage over software that only shows a bar or pie chart etc, because you can already see several layers down, so a massive file buried inside multiple subfolders is instantly visible.
Simply choose a drive or folder to scan from the box when you start SpaceSniffer and within a few seconds you will be able to recognize larger folders (brown boxes) and files (blue boxes), the bigger the box, the more space it occupies. Folders can be navigated down even further by double clicking on them, or the amount of detail can be increased using the blue box icons in the toolbar.
The 3 little box icon also shows different types of files in different color boxes, this can also be configured or added to if you wish. For example, the bright blue boxes are archives and disc images, and the yellow are exe’s, dll’s and sys files. SpaceSniffer is a portable executable and works with Windows XP and above.
DOWNLOAD: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
You can take a look at other options here https://www.raymond.cc/blog/find-out-what-files-and-folders-are-taking-up-hard-drive-spaces/
The standard thing to do would be to check the properties of each top level folder and navigate your way down until the culprit files and folders are found. This could certainly waste a lot of time and isn’t efficient.
Recently, I discovered a program to check the size of all files in a folder in a very practical way: Space Sniffer
I liked it a lot because apart from being fast, it’s visual treemap layout can quickly give a very good idea of which files or folders are taking up the biggest amount of space on your drive. This has an advantage over software that only shows a bar or pie chart etc, because you can already see several layers down, so a massive file buried inside multiple subfolders is instantly visible.
Simply choose a drive or folder to scan from the box when you start SpaceSniffer and within a few seconds you will be able to recognize larger folders (brown boxes) and files (blue boxes), the bigger the box, the more space it occupies. Folders can be navigated down even further by double clicking on them, or the amount of detail can be increased using the blue box icons in the toolbar.
The 3 little box icon also shows different types of files in different color boxes, this can also be configured or added to if you wish. For example, the bright blue boxes are archives and disc images, and the yellow are exe’s, dll’s and sys files. SpaceSniffer is a portable executable and works with Windows XP and above.
DOWNLOAD: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
You can take a look at other options here https://www.raymond.cc/blog/find-out-what-files-and-folders-are-taking-up-hard-drive-spaces/