Okay first of all, I love foldershare! I cannot imagine life without it.
But, on one of my laptops, with a 160G HDD, I had about
- 50GB of VMs,
- 10G of Windows
- 10G of program files
- 5G of documents/work etc.
You add all those up together, and ou have about 70-80GB of space filled. But, my HDD was showing almost completely full!!
First, I thought it was Windows Vista previous versions. So I cleaned out all previous versions, and I gained 800KB (don't laugh).
I just could not figure out, where all thid disk space was?
So, I wrote a little program to iterate through all dirs on my system, and show me disk usage of the biggest pigs.
FOLDERSHARE WAS IT! DANGIT!
At an obscure location of C:\Users\Sahil Malik\AppData\Local\FolderShare\trash, that "trash" dir, was eating up about 40 gigs of space.
CTRL_SHIFT_DEL !!
Whew, how emancipating. Now half my HDD is free, and I'm running defrag.
Bak2wurk!
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4/6/2008 3:38:34 PM
Ethan
said ..
You should check out WinDirStat. It does the same thing as the little program you wrote, but with really cool pac-man graphics, sorting ability, and you can delete the pigs right there in the program. Good deal for a free program, huh?
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4/6/2008 3:42:09 PM
Sahil Malik
said ..
Y'know I remember there used to be such a program .. but then I had forgotten which one was it :).
Thanks for pointing out .. I'll do that on my desktop.
SM
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