For the drive that says it is full
Space HogSee what fills your drive and what to do about it.
Paste a storage listing from du, ls, find or a Drive export. The page shows where the space goes on a treemap, the biggest files and the likely duplicates. One run plans what to archive, which copies to remove and what to ask about - and the page adds up what that frees. Nothing in the plan deletes a file's only copy.
1 The listing free
Get a listing - copy one line, run it in a terminal, paste what it prints:
- Mac or Linux, biggest files and folders:
du -ah ~ | sort -rh | head -300 - Mac, every file:
find ~ -type f -exec stat -f '%z %N' {} + | sort -rn | head -2000 - Linux, every file:
find ~ -type f -printf '%s %p\n' | sort -rn | head -2000 - Windows PowerShell:
Get-ChildItem ~ -Recurse -File -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Sort-Object Length -Descending | Select-Object -First 2000 FullName, Length | ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation
Also read: ls -lR, Windows dir /s, and a Drive list with a name and a size column (a CSV or copied table). Sizes like 48G or 3.2 GB count in powers of 1024. Or drop a .txt or .csv here.
2 Where the space goes free
Biggest files and likely duplicates
3 The plan metered
One run decides each candidate: archive it off the drive (when its name says it is finished or past), remove the extra copies of a likely duplicate, keep it, or ask you first when it may be the only copy of something that matters. The page adds up what the plan frees.
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What to do
Questions for you
The page's check
Archive means move the file somewhere cheaper - an external disk, cold storage - and check the copy opens before removing it from the drive. Nothing is moved or deleted from this page.
4 Saved drives
How it works
The page reads each line of du (size then path; folder totals are set aside when their files are listed), ls -l or ls -lR (the size column, under each folder heading), find -printf (bytes then path), or a table with a name and a size column. Sizes with units count in powers of 1024, as du -h and Drive do; du rounds, so its totals are close rather than exact.
Likely duplicates are files of exactly the same size whose names match once copy marks - Copy of, (1), copy - are set aside. The candidates for the plan are those duplicate groups, then the biggest single files.
The run never suggests deleting a file outright: single files can only be archived, kept or asked about, and only the extra copies of a likely duplicate can be removed. The page adds up what that frees from its own byte counts.