Disk Space Management Tools Put to the Test
Your hard disk is full, there's no free disk space left - time to clean up your hard drive! But which tool do you choose? Is TreeSize Free sufficient or should you get the Professional Edition? And why is TreeSize an alternative to WinDirStat?
Let's take a look at the features:
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JAM Software Disk Space Manager Test - Your Alternatives to WinDirStat
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Determines the recursive folder size |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Unicode support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Shows files right down to file level |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Scans all directoriesEven the size of directories without access permissions can be calculated |
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Yes
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Yes
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Shows NTFS compression rate |
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Yes
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Yes
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Multithreaded scansDrives are scanned using multiple parallel threads. |
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Yes
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Yes
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Choose unit scan results should be displayed in (KB/MB/GB or automatic) |
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Yes
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Yes
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One-click file level access |
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Yes
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Yes
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Refresh sub-paths individually |
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Yes
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Yes
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Supports drag & drop |
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Yes
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Yes
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Can be accessed via the Explorer context menu |
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Yes
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Yes
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Explorer context menu is accessible while working with the software |
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Yes
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Yes
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Print scan results |
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Yes
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Yes
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3D cushion tree map |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Send scan results via email |
Yes
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Yes
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Full NTFS support(Hardlinks, symbolic links, alternate data streams ADS, quota etc.) |
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Yes
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Tree map visualizes folder hierarchies(additional viewing options provided) |
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Yes
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Yes
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Export to different formats(Excel, XML, TXT, CSV etc.) |
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