These applications help you

If you have difficult The drive is full, and you are not sure of what may occupy all this space, you may think your only choice is to go to your files lists, one by one. Fortunately, there are applications that will not only stand out where you may be able to save some space (you really need everyone Those cat pictures?), But they will look beautiful as you do.

These free applications are available for both Windows and MacOS, and allows you to explore what is visually on the drive engine so that you can detect places more easily to collect some real estate. These applications also quickly locate any large files and delete them anymore, or files that you can go to an external drive instead of storing on your device. Just make sure that too The reserves of these files to the cloud.

But before you are going to delete a boat, also remember that these applications are able to completely wipe the hard drive, including the files necessary to run your applications or even the operating system. The difficult and fast rule here is not to delete a file if you don’t know what it is. You can always search for the file name online if you are not sure, but if you are still wise after doing this, leave it alone and focus on the files you know.

Windirstat for windows

Windartit It is a free and open source application for Windows that can delete any guide, even the entire fixed drive, and provide visual details to all files. You only need to start the application, select the folder you want to wipe, then see the PAC-Man animated animation until you get a full map of the drive.

With permission from Justin Pot

The application is divided into two panels. The upper part is a guide structure, similar to Windows Explorer, but everything is requested depending on the size instead of the file name. You can explore the files from here if you want, or on the right, this destroying the types of files that occupy most of the space on the drive. Or for example, in the folder that I wiped in light, it showed that photo files have acquired the largest number of space.

The really useful feature, though, is the bottom plate, which displays a visual representation of all files. Each file is represented by a rectangle and its size is widely – that is, the more the space occupied by a file on your drive, the greater the rectangle. The rectangles are sorted by folder and color according to the file type.

If there are some big files that occupy most of your space, this tool makes it easy to find. You can hover over any box to see its name and location in the status bar in the lower left corner. You can also click the file to jump to its location in the file board, allowing you to delete it from there if you like.

Find for McCos

Mac users should start curious about what occupies an area on the drive grandfatherAnother open source application you can download directly for free or buy for $ 3 from the Mac App Store. Open this app and you can choose any folder you want to wipe, including a fully fixed drive. After a few minutes, during which you will be asked for your permission several times, you will see an amazing visual representation of all your files.

With permission from Justin Pot

Like Windirstat, each file is represented by a rectangle – the greater the file size, the greater the size of the file. You hover over any file and you will be told its location in the status bar in the lower right corner. Click any file, and then click Reveal A button in the toolbar, you will open the Finder window that shows you the place of the file. You can delete the file from here, if you want, but there is also a button in the grandfather to delete a file directly.

For the larger part using a simple app: wipe a folder or drive, note what occupies the largest space, and delete anything you do not need. However, there are some things that you can modify in the settings. By default, the colorseptive files by the folder, which is useful to see the folder structure at a glance. However, I recommend changing colors coding so that everything is colored according to the file extension – this makes it easy to see, at a glance, what are the types of files that occupy the most storage space. You can also change the color scheme, if you like, if the default colors are not for your taste.