WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

Copyright and licenses

The application itself is distributed under the terms of the GPL v2, but parts of the source code are also available under more lenient license terms.

The documentation/help is distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.

Note: you are not at liberty to upgrade the GPL version to anything later than v2 at this moment.

The logo and all derivatives are available under the terms of the Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0.

Description

WinDirStat is a program that allows you to find drive space hogs at a glance. It achieves that by displaying a drive, drives or directories in a treemap that assigns bigger areas to bigger files and directories. Making those areas visually separate by coloring and other means allows you to see literally at a glance what the space hogs are and where to dig deeper.

The directory tree is simultaneously shown as a tree list and as a treemap. One can effortlessly gain an impression of the proportions on the drive(s).

Major features

3 views, Directory tree, Treemap and Extension list, coupled with each other,
Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Delete, Show Properties,
User-defined cleanup actions (command line based),
Language is English by default; further translations can be added as resource DLLs,
Online-Help,
A little setup.exe which installs the files and shortcuts.

Background

The original author of WinDirStat was Bernhard Seifert and it was inspired by KDirStat and SequoiaView. Design and many details are based on KDirStat, so WinDirStat is "a KDirStat re-programmed for MS Windows".

WinDirStat Alternatives on other operating systems

Meanwhile, alternatives also exist for OS X and many programs make use of treemaps for a variety of visualization needs.

The FLOSS alternatives for other operating systems are thus:

QDirStat (Linux and virtually any *nix that runs KDE/X11)
Disk Inventory X (OS X)
GrandPerspective (OS X)

We're not aware of an alternative using treemaps for Windows at this moment, but ...

Building from source

Please refer to the project Wiki page Building.

Contributing

The project Wiki on GitHub features a whole section on the topic of contributing. If you don't agree with the requirements, feel free to contact a project member regardless before you put any substantial effort into your potential contribution.

To see a list of contributors, please check out the contributors page.

Compatibility

WinDirStat currently runs on all flavors of Windows, but does have some problems on more recent versions of Windows (8 and later) that will be addresses by a future release.

Logo

WinDirStat logo

The logo was generously designed and contributed to the project by Robin "tuqueque" Marín. Follow him on Twitter @tuquequeorg.

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