Deleting files PC

Factual Questions
1

My hard drive is getting full. I need a program that will let me see what files are taking up space and then delete them. I had this problem once before and used a great program (I think it had tree in its name, but maybe not) that worked perfectly. I can no longer find it. Does anyone have the name of that program, or another that would help me out?

2

Was it TreeSize?

3

TreeSize is great.

And for the OP, if you’re running out of space, you might consider an external hard drive or, if you have a desktop tower, adding another internal hard drive.

Hard drive space is now one of the cheapest things you can add to a computer. You can get a 4Tb external drive for under $120. I remember, less than 10 years ago, paying more than that for 160Gb.

4

I like SpaceMonger (1.4).

CMC fnord!

5

Thanks so much. It was TreeSize.

I have an external hard drive that I download photos to. The drive is getting filled up with Podcasts because of the careless manner that I have iTunes set up. Getting rid of them one by one is horrible.

And thanks for the name of the alternate file manager.

6

WinDirStat is similar. The image on that page shows some of the visualization: larger rectangles are larger files, and color coded by type.

7

It’s really much easier to do this via a batch file. And it runs much faster.

Create a plain text file named MYJOB.BAT (or something similar).

In it, put a separate line for each file you want to delete, like this:
DEL c:\mydir\myfile001.png
DEL c:\mydir\myfile002.png
etc.

When you have them all listed there, go to a command window (click START, type CMD in the search box and hit enter) and type the name of your delete file (without the “.BAT” part – MYJOB) and hit enter. You will see the names of files being deleted scroll by faster than you can read – much faster than doing it thru Windows.

P.S. A quick way to do this is to go to as command window and enter
DIR c:\mydir\myfile* /b >MYJOB.BAT
That will create the file MYJOB.BAT and fill it with all the filenames from directory mydir that start with “myfile”. Then you can edit that file, putting "DEL " in front of the ones you want to delete and erasing the names of the ones you want to keep.