Disk Usage Visualizer

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lifu
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Disk Usage Visualizer

Post by lifu »

I'd like to see Everything implementing a disk usage visualizer similar to projects like WizTree, WinDirStat, or Filelight.

Everything would have the distinct advantage of being able to draw from its index, assuming "Index file size" and/or "Index folder size" are enabled.

An option could be included to only use indexed data, though if there are excluded paths on the drive, that could simply be its own "Unindexed" section of the visualization, calculated by subtracting the total indexed size from the disk's capacity.


(I tried to find an MIT-licensed C/C++ project that performs visualization akin to the aforementioned software, so that you could perhaps use it to help you develop this feature, but sadly I couldn't find anything.)
horst.epp
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Re: Disk Usage Visualizer

Post by horst.epp »

Why should Everything duplicate tools like WizTree.
WizTree also reads the MFT, so there is no big speed improvement
if Everything would do it with indexed data.

Everything could replace a lot of other tools like file managers
but this doesn't make sense.
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