I must admit, in past years I looked for long time to a quick and easy way to analyze my disks space occupation. Found many products, some free some commercial but I never accustomed to anyone of them. It's only a matter of taste but... since my work is not to analyze disk space all the day, for this annoying task I wanted a software that does not need to be re-learned every time I run it. Everything should be directly accessible. In my opinion, if I wonder what is the meaning of a button, then that button should be removed. This is the need that urged me to program SpaceSniffer.

SpaceSniffer tries to be intuitive. Moreover it has some graphical effects. Maybe people think they're useless. I think they help to understand what's happening. The zoom in/out effect for instance helps me to understand where i'm going. The blinking effect helps me understand what has been just scanned or what has changed under my eyes. I found them useful for me, and hope they can be useful for others.

Obviously, it's a matter of taste. Sure there are people that cannot live without complex statistical functions and so. Maybe SpaceSniffer is too simplistic for them. But, if you don't have much time to recover free disk space you'll like a minimal interface.

Please don't misunderstand: minimal interface does not mean simple program. The smart caching engine of SpaceSniffer is designed to permit navigation even during the scan process. More views can be opened on the same disk with different filters and different navigation paths, and a single scan will be performed. If the file system changes then SpaceSniffer reflects those changes even during a scan operation. In my opinion, the complexity of an application must not be visible to the user. Everything should appear simple and obvious. This is the target in the develop of SpaceSniffer.

So, there is plenty of disk analysis tools over the internet, each one has his own features and his own dignity. I hope that SpaceSniffer can be accepted for what it is: simple way to free space with minimum time expense.

There is a lot of room for improvements: suggestion are welcome, please contact me and send yours (my eMail here)

In few words:

Fast and easy to use
Supports drag and drop
Export module lets you produce customizable textual reports
Intuitive structure layout, multiple views for different media
Zoomable elements, navigate like a web browser
The Windows folders and file popup menu is accessible by right mouse click
It's possible to restrict the view content by typing simple yet powerful filtering criteria
Lets you temporary tag files with four different colors and perform filtering on them
Different views of the same media can show differently filtered elements
Customizable in geometry, colors, behaviors
You can navigate even during the scan
Smart cached scanning engine, multiple views, single scan
You can refine a zoomed area by a secondary scan process, even with main scan active
Reacts to file system events, keeps always in synch, warns you by blinking elements
Can scan NTFS Alternate Data Streams
It doesn't clutter your registry, only a plain XML configuration file
It's portable, no installation required, just put the executable somewhere and let's go
It's freeWare (donations are welcome)

http://goo.gl/7nify
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/download.html

Duplicate File Finder

Use Free Duplicate File Finder & Remove Duplicate Files

You may not realize how many duplicate files you have after downloaded many files from the Internet or duplicate files scattered over your home or corporate network. Duplicate files are usually waste and unnecessary keeping them is merely a waste of valuable hard disk space. Your hard drives may be full of documents, iTunes, iPod, MP3, Photos, and Video and many of them are redundant.

Duplicate File Finder, is a FREE tool designed to find and delete duplicate files over home and corporate network while no software installed on other computer. Fast byte-to-byte and CRC32 comparison gives you the most accurate results and duplicate file finder searches duplicate file contents regardless of filename. A list of find duplicate files can be sorted, exported, and acted upon. A search session including results can be saved. Duplicate files can be remove, moved, or copied.

Why is finding duplicate files useful ?

Deleting duplicates will help to speed up indexing and reduces back up time and size. Your computer isn’t fully optimized until you’ve removed all unnecessary clone files. Let Clone Remover find and remove the duplicates! Regain valuable disk space and improve data quality.

Benefits

Identify and recover wasted disk space
Reducing the time and media used for backups
Minimize time used to unneeded virus scanning
Increase free space on "limited" resources, like laptops and memory disks
Reduce files searching time
Duplicate file remover to eliminate synchronization problems
Runs much more quickly than others in its class, very safe and reliable

Features

Powerful search engines (byte by byte and SHA-1)
Find files with same contents, same name and zero size.
Find duplicate pictures, video, songs(mp3, wma, ogg).
Fastest among duplicate file finders, duplicate file cleaner.
Very user friendly, Specially design for novice users.
Works with removable media devices like Floppy, USB, etc.
Search local PC and over network.
Find duplicate files based on criteria : filename, byte to byte, CRC, etc.
Fuzzy Match for files with little differences
Can find duplicate from a selected set of folders (i.e., not from whole drive).
Allows important folders you wish to be excluded from scanning altogether.
Can use wild cards and protects the windows and system folders.
Skips the hidden files and folder.
Show files version and properties.
Resizable popup picture viewer.
Save job session and results for later review.
Results can be exported in HTML and CSV formats.

http://www.ashisoft.com/index.htm
http://goo.gl/6vXJM

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CLEANERPRO Version 3.1.2 Size 6.8 MB		No Spyware, malware, toolbars or unwanted extras
			Alternate download locations: Mirror 1 (digitalvolcano.co.uk) Mirror 2 (CNET Download.com)
	Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Users: If you get the message 'DuplicateCleaner3_setup is not commonly downloaded...', you need to click 'Actions', 'More Options', and 'Run Anyway'. This message is from Microsoft's over-enthusiastic SmartScreen function, and can be ignored.
	SYSTEMREQUIREMENTS: OS: Microsoft Windows 8, 7,Vista or XP. 32/64 bit. Processor: 800Mhz or better Disc Space: 10Mb Display: 1024 x 768 High Color (or better) Microsoft .NET Framework 2

http://goo.gl/5FTjo

http://www.duplicatecleaner.com/download.html

Duplicate Files Finder

Description

Duplicate Files Finder is an application which searches for duplicate files (files which have the same content, but not necessarily the same name) and lets the user remove duplicate files, either by deleting them or by creating links. The search is very fast compared to other similiar programs which use hashing algorithms (see description of the Duplicate Files Finder algorithm).

Download

Windows users can download the installer.
Linux users can download the source code and/or binaries.
Binary and source rpm packages for (open)SuSE you find on "packman.links2linux.de". They are maintained by Toni Graffy.
For Debian systems, there isn't any .deb file i know of (sorry).

http://goo.gl/HTuYl
http://doubles.sourceforge.net/

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