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To: raybbr
Does anyone know of an app that can sort the folders in a windows system by size? I want to find out which folders have the most junk in them. Thanks.

If you were using Unix or Linux, you could just use the 'du' command. If you wanted to get fancy you could do something like this...

du -k | sort -nr | more

This would show the disk usage of each subdirectory, sort it numerically for you in reverse order (i.e., large directories first),  and then display the results a page at a time. If you wanted just the top 10 biggest directories...

du -k | sort -nr | head -10

Yeah, there will be weenies out there who will say, "but that's so hard". At least it's possible. There are also graphical tools to do essentially the same thing like "agedu", "gdmap", or "ncdu" among others.



41 posted on 10/27/2010 10:49:16 AM PDT by zeugma (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam)
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To: zeugma; raybbr
If you were using Unix or Linux,...

So an answer could be to boot up a Linux Live CD, mount the Windows drive, and the perform the instructions zeugma listed.

42 posted on 10/27/2010 11:14:33 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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