I often ran into the issue of not knowing what files on my hard drive were taking up all the space. Windows explorer provided some insight into the size of individual files but it only allowed me to at a glance see what was the biggest file in any given folder, not even allowing me to see the total size of folders themselves.
I thought to remedy this by writing a program to allow you to view the size of any given folder and then click on it to see the size of any given sub folders.
There are some problems with it;
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It isnt live updating and takes a massive amount of time to check all the files on your system.
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It generates a massive file to store the results, about 300mb big on a 2tb hard drive, While this doesnt seem like much its very bad when your trying to clean out your hard drive which is what this program is meant for.
But it works. So theres that.