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pdf files, you can spot them right away by the color of the 3D box.

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And for those who consider Linux software superior to Windows software, you might not like this, but WinDirStat is actually more robust (more features) than GDM.įirst of all, in the upper left pane, you can see that WnDirStat allows you to see a tree structure WITH a bar graph display which matches the 3D boxes.Īnd in the upper right pane you have file type colors you can identify in the 3D boxes.

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You can see in the lower pane of WinDirStat that it resembles GDM… I suspect because GDM is open source code and the developers for WinDirStat just grabbed it (legit of course).īut even though both use similar 3D boxes, there are some nuanced differences between WinDirStat and GDM. Now, since DCT addresses Windows issues too, there IS a piece of Windows software which has the Linux GDM look, and it’s called “WinDirStat” and can be downloaded at : So it still makes sense to eliminate them and cut down on needless scanning. With USB sticks and hard disk drives now being so cheap and large, gaining more disk space is no longer as important as it once was.īut, in addition to behaving as clutter, these needless files can also take up extra time when scanning with something such as an AV. So, GDM led me down a worthwhile path here. who knows?īut again, the fact it’s on a USB stick tells me it’s not part of my HDD OS. It might have been part of an old Linux OS I had at one time and no longer use. I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot. I will probably investigate a little more, because to me deletion of a file can be a serious business. Why in the world I had this file I still have no idea, but it’s an excellent candidate for deletion and I’m 99% sure it’s clutter. Plus, if something is stored on a USB stick, it likely isn’t part of the OS anyway.

Nor am I particularly occupied with sharing CD burns with others who have a different OS (Indeed, I can’t recall ever having done that.)

I’m not much for commercial software, I’ll utilize freeware wherever and whenever possible and can probably count on the fingers of one hand the titles I’ve paid for. And as far as the extra features (like automation) in disk mapping commercial software, I am certainly not going to pay for a feature I’m not going to use.’ My answer to that: ‘Batch files and scripts can automate things if I want, BUT I AM THE AUTHOR of those things, not some third party developer who thinks he/she knows what’s best for me. A computer is supposed to make things easier for you by automating certain tasks.” That’s probably primitive to some degree and is very tedious, and a lot would comment: “You’re defeating the whole purpose of a computer. I don’t like it when my machine does ANYTHING without telling me first and then asking me if it can do it (sometimes I have to tolerate that, but rarely.) Consequently, I don’t use these “automated” disk mappers, but rather scrutinize each and every file before I make any decision to delete. However, for those of us who don’t like our machines doing anything “automatically”, these kinds of disk maps are not what we want. Now there are some disk maps… and they’re mostly commercial, not free… which will actually “automatically” delete certain files you name with certain parameters (like “anything over xxMB”, or “desktop.ini” files, or ReadMe files, whatever). They can have other uses, but “getting rid of clutter” is a primary function. Well, if you want to play Suzie Spotless and remove old files/folders you no longer need or use, they give you, at a glance, a good handle on which files/folders take up the most space on your disk… in other words, what would get you “the biggest bang for the buck” for if you deleted it. Now what is the usefulness of these utilities? it is one of the many graphical disk maps out there, and this article is NOT about JDiskReport specifically.) (The use of the screen shot for “JDiskReport” here is just for the purpose of an example. That graphical representation can be a pie chart, a bar chart, 3D boxes, or any kind of visual representation that gives the user some idea of the size of the folder or file in relation to the size of other folders or files on the same storage medium.

The phrase “graphical disk map” is a general description for a group of software, both commercial and free, which tells you the size of a folder or file with a graphical representation, OR it is actually the precise name of a specific piece of software (free BTW) which does that job.