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Looking for good Windows folder utility
I went looking for the largest files on our almost-full shared drive, and found a few that could be moved, but I'm finding that one of the biggest issues is people saving a giant trove of full-size iPhone pictures. One person had transferred them zipped, then unzipped them, and they were taking up gigs and gigs of space 4-7MB at a time. I've been going through and finding these and bulk-resizing the photos, which we do want to keep, but not at original resolution. I wish File Explorer could give me a list of the individual subfolders with the largest total size, so they could be inspected for zipping or reducing file size. I remember our former IT consultant mentioned a utility to me. I thought it was TreeSize Free, but it turns out that will only work on local drives, not on our server. |
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Just to update this: I had WizTree and some other stuff recommended, but decided to just do an Excel PowerQuery, with file sizes, then did a Pivot Table by folder path. This has the benefit of being updatable, and also I could then filter to include or exclude the types of materials I could, or couldn't, compress or reduce. I can use the same setup later to look for old Adobe PDF's which haven't been reduced in size.
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Winddirstat (open source) will do what you are looking for. You can analyze drives or specific folders and it will show you how the space is used.
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Folder size for all subfolders containing "Photos" in the folder name, with contents from at least two years ago. Power Query gave me results I could filter to get this. For other purposes windirstat would absolutely have done the job. They at least identify where the bigger stuff is. But with PQ I could further drill to stuff I could actually do anything about. One of my projects is taking caches of old photos and batch-reducing the file sizes of said photos. It's good busywork between other things. |
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Re:Power Query gave me results I could filter to get this.
Do you want to get list of full path and size of each files? didn't allow me to filter as I ultimately wanted to What kind of filter? Can you share some data and expected result? |
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it turns out that will only work on local drives, not on our server.
server? web server? |
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Sorry if I didn't say this: I'm good with what I have in PowerQuery now. Among other things, it gives me the ability to track what I've done.
Marking this thread as solved. |
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