Re: [WinMac] Listing size of Directories in NT

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Thu, 08 Jul 1999 07:47:32 -0700

Yes, there's a feeware program called Wintree (IIRC) that does this quite
nicely. In fact we use it for exactly this purpose: seeing who is the
diskspace hog.

I picked it up at http://www.winfiles.com. I'm off work today, I'll check it
tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure that was the name.

There's a Pro version that costs some money with more bells and whistles.

Finally, it's a losing battle. Like a vaccuum, Nature apparently abhors an
empty disk ;-) I made a quick plot of when we started networking where I work
to today of date vs disk space on the server. We're about to enter the really
_vertical_ part of that exponential curve.

We started with a 486/33 with a 1gb drive back when that was a 'wow' purchase
('93 or '94), about $2000, and now have (counting on fingers) 5 servers with
some 32 gb of space. That 1gb drive, incidentally, was the most expensive
single disk drive we ever bought.

Every other single drive we have purchased has cost us around $800-$1200 each.
They just keep getting bigger. We're awaiting the 4 8 (or is it 12) gb drives
for our array on the alpha (supposed to ship today) and yesterday my boss was
setting up the new server, with either 5 or 6 8-gb drives in an array. This
ought to hold us maybe 8 months...

Robert F. Crean wrote:
>
> I am totally frustrated:
> Attempting to "clean house" on our server whose disk array has filled to 90%
> of capacity in no time at all. On our macs, I can set "calculate folder
> sizes" in preferences and then sort by size, going after the large files
> within.
>
> There seems to be no such equivalent in Windows. In Explorer, you can right
> click a directory and check properties, but it would take forever hunting
> around for large files that could be purged.
>
> Is there a way to do this in Windows, or is there an App anyone knows of?
>

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