How To Find Out Which Folder Is Using The Most Space

Cara Mencari Folder Yang Paling Banyak Memakan Ruang Harddisk

My computer reported that the C drive, or the primary hard drive is full or out of space. The C drive has 199 GB of space yet it said that I only had about 15 GB free. However my libraries in total have like less than 5 GB of storage now. I also have deleted all the files in the Recycle Bin, all my temporary files and any other unused files.

I then wanted to delete some of the things that are clogging up my C drive. And the most effective way to find them is by using WinDirStat! It's automatic, it's free and it is awesome! Thank you, Bernard (<-- the founder).

WinDirStat [download here] is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows. It reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

• The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
• The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
• The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

To use it, simply run the WinDirStat, choose the drive you want to explore, and wait the process done. 

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The treemap represents each file as a colored rectangle, the area of which is proportional to the file's size. The rectangles are arranged in such a way, that directories again make up rectangles, which contain all their files and subdirectories. So their area is proportional to the size of the subtrees. The color of a rectangle indicates the type of the file, as shown in the extension list. The cushion shading additionally brings out the directory structure.

Thanks to WinDirStat I found the folder that uses most space. It is Adobe's Media Cache Folder. Now, how to delete them safely? Read here.