Keep track of your system
The compact but powerful Disk-Space-Explorer 2018 provides a detailed overview of file distribution and disk space consumption. Unlike Windows Explorer, Disk-Space-Explorer 2018 lists results based on file types and helps quickly locate potential resource hogs. The file type filters are customizable making it easy to scan drives for specific files, e.g. video files or documents. Bar and pie charts provide visual clues as to to the percentage of disk space usage for each file type. For a more in-depth view, user can quickly navigate through folders and customize existing file type filters or create their own. With Disk-Space-Explorer 2018, users can finally find out exactly how much space their photos, songs, videos or any other files really take up.
Feature highlights:
- Visualize file distribution by folder / structure
- Analyze disk space consumption based on file formats
- Locate resource hogs
- Filter by file type
- Customize file type filters
- Multiple types of charts to visualize results
- Create custom filters based on file types
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Reviews for Ashampoo Disk-Space-Explorer 2018
With time, storage space on our drives get filled up, which may result in slowing down our PC. Tons of space is taken by the files we download and the junk files that are created by applications. All this space can be recovered, if only we knew which useless files and folders still exist on the drive.
Ashampoo Disk-Space-Explorer is a software application, designed to help you explore disk space consumption and file distribution using detailed information that includes pie charts and bar charts. With this application, you can keep an eye on how the disk space is being consumed on daily basis, and avoid any performance degradation due to it.
Installation & Set-up
The installer size is ~12MB and the installation process takes no time at all. During the installation, license code needs to be entered before proceeding with it. After launching, the application automatically scans all the disks attached, and asks you to choose the one you want to analyze. Once chosen, the application scans the disk and displays the results.
Pros
Simple & Clean UI
The UI of the application is clean and intuitive, making the application easy to use and understand for all types of users, even the novices. There are 3 buttons on the top, namely ‘Files’, ‘Structure’, and ‘File Formats’, these change what information is displayed. Clicking the ‘Files’ button displays a list of all the files, ‘Structure’ button arranges them in folder structure, and ‘File Formats’ button categories files in different file categories. There’s also a drop down menu on top-right which let’s you filter out what is displayed and what not.
Middle section is where all the lists, structures, pie charts and bar charts are displayed. Under it is a Settings button to access settings, and another button to start analysis of some other disk.
Detailed Analysis
You can apply series of filters to only view the files that you want to look at. You can view the files in a list with their size and other information, or view them as a structure that shows space taken by a folder and also the number of subfolders and files in it. Moreover, you can view the analysis as file formats including audio, video, graphics files, archives, documents, or application. It displays how much space is being consumed by each category.
Pie charts and bar charts come in handy to give you a sense or an idea how your disk space is being consumed and what resource hogs are present.
Customization
This tool let’s you change the language incase English is not your preferred language. You can also change skins and tweak with general application behavior. Moreover, you can add and remove file formats from different categories, and even create a custom group of file formats to use. You can also change the number of sections of the pie chart or display it as a donut and semi circle.
Perform file/folder functions from within the application
Viewing files and folders with this application, you can easily open files and folders. View them in Windows Explorer or open them in it. Moreover, this tool let’s you delete files and folders that you find are useless and not needed anymore.
Cons
No reports
It does not allow you to create reports based on the data it collects, this makes the tool a bit useless. Being able to generate reports would be a great addition as on can keep track of how the disk space have changed over time.
Conclusion
Ashampoo Disk-Space-Explorer is a great informative tool that let’s you scan and analyze your disks, giving you information on how the space is being consumed and how the files are distributed. The UI makes the tool easy to use for all types of users, and the pie charts and bar charts are a handy addition but their graphics could have been better and more detailed.
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