Got a full hard disk? SpaceMonger might just be the answer.
Heard about SpaceMonger on Leo Laporte’s Tech Guy podcast, after a caller was asking if there was a graphical way of seeing what was taking up all the space on a hard drive.
SpaceMonger is a software application developed for Microsoft Windows, created by the small company Sixty-Five. SpaceMonger is a data management and visualization tool that allows for the visual analysis of file and directory sizes on a hard disk or other file system viewable as a drive. SpaceMonger uses Tree Maps to create a visual representation of the contents of the selected drive; this shows at a glance which files and folders are using the most storage space.
I’ve used the older free SpaceMonger 1.4 myself, and have claimed around 7 gigs of free space, just by deleting temporary folders and files which where not apparent just by looking at Windows Explorer. In another example. one may have ripped some DVDs in the past, and forgot about them. SpaceMonger makes it immediately obvious whats hogging all the space on your hard disk.
Important: Always backup your data before running any kind of disk utility like this.
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