{"id":7437,"date":"2014-11-13T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T02:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainlitter.com\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2014-11-13T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T02:43:41","slug":"spacemonger-great-tool-for-freeing-up-disk-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2014\/11\/13\/spacemonger-great-tool-for-freeing-up-disk-space\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceMonger – Great tool for freeing up disk space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I discovered SpaceMonger.\u00a0 After giving it a go, I was impressed enough that I felt I needed to share a few key things about it.<\/p>\n

What<\/h1>\n

You’ve probably seen tools out there already that show you how much free disk space you have on your PC. Home grown scripts, batch files, and various other expensive tools.\u00a0 What I liked about this one in particular was how quickly it loaded and gave me the goods, how clearly it was defined on the website (an introductory video is the key to my heart these days, time is precious) but specifically for me for this tool, was this was the first one I’ve seen (there may be others but I had no need to look further) that supported looking at OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox for my disk space usage.\u00a0 Sure I’m getting 30GB for free from OneDrive (not to be confused with OneDrive for Business and its new Infinite storage), but even that is starting to get chewed up and as you’ll see in a second, SpaceMonger helped me quickly pinpoint what was chewing up space so I could houseclean.\u00a0 This isn’t like back when I had an x386 and I used to delete the help txt files out of Windows to squeak out every last kilobyte, but now with video and music, I’m eating up space at a huge pace but some of it just doesn’t matter and I’d like that space back.<\/p>\n

So What<\/h1>\n

I thought I’d provide two quick examples tonight\u2026<\/p>\n

My local Surface Pro 3<\/h3>\n

\"SpaceMonger-SystemDisk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On my work laptop,\u00a0I have a number of things eating up space on my Tablet (and tablets have smaller drives which with the cloud should be fine, except every bloody cloud tool wants to sync locally \u2013\u00a0 synching OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, OneNote, Outlook OST eats up a tonne!\u00a0 Thank goodness I’ve left Dropbox behind or that would be one more chewing up local disk space\u2026)<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Whoa. I have 11.4GB of an iPhone backup on this machine. I don’t need that\u2026 gone!<\/li>\n
  2. Whoa \u2026 again. I have 10.9GB of another iPhone backup on this machine.\u00a0 Gone too!<\/li>\n
  3. This is my Outlook OST file.\u00a0 At 4.2GB it isn’t bad but with Outlook 2013, I can throttle much better what I have truly local\/offline so I’ll go look at that<\/li>\n
  4. This is my OneNote offline stache.\u00a0 OneNote rules and rocks my life.\u00a0 But it is interesting to see that it shows me which Notebooks (represented as folders) are the biggest \u2013\u00a0 gives me some thoughts about some stuff to archive)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 very useful<\/li>\n
  5. Ah the Hiberfil.sys.\u00a0 Can you believe you can find this on a Windows Server sometimes (??). In this case I want it but I might now just find out if I can control its size some time \u2013\u00a0 particularly considering it is roughly triple the size of my pagefile (why?)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    My Personal OneDrive<\/h3>\n

    Ok, on to the new experiment.\u00a0\u00a0With SpaceMonger, I\u00a0can have it look at my personal OneDrive and tell me how poorly I’m managing stuff there. And let’s face it, considering I don’t pay for OneDrive, I can’t say I’ve been terribly picking or good at housecleaning.<\/p>\n

    \"SpaceMongerOneDrive\"<\/a><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Whoa, I forgot all about that music I stored once for a gig that I was Djay’ing. I have that somewhere else, that’s 3GB reclaimed<\/li>\n
    2. A 256GB movie file?\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Oh right, that one. Gone!<\/li>\n
    3. A backup of our old website?\u00a0 That’s what the wayback machine is for now.\u00a0 Seeya!<\/li>\n
    4. Interesting. My personal OneNote is nearing 547MB.\u00a0 Hmm, I wonder if I need to keep all that stuff\u2026<\/li>\n
    5. Oops. A backup of a training file on C#.\u00a0 I had every intention of watching that but here we are 5 months later and who’s kidding who?\u00a0 Adios!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Finally, if you like stats and charts, here’s some disk space nerd nirvana!\u00a0 Giddy Up.<\/p>\n

      \"SpaceMongerStats\"<\/a><\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

      Now What<\/h1>\n

      I like it.\u00a0 Full disclosure, I got a free copy as an MVP but I was not asked or expected to write about it in exchange for this post. I just found immediate value in it and felt for $19 it was another one of those tools that begs the question \u201cwhat is your time worth?\u201d.\u00a0 If I were to dig around to find what I gathered above, I can tell you that as a $250\/hr SharePoint consultant, this tool gave results faster than 13 minutes of my time ever would\u2026<\/p>\n

      Check out SpaceMonger here: http:\/\/edgerunner.com\/spacemonger<\/a><\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

      Tags: SpaceMonger<\/a>, Free+Space<\/a>, Savings<\/a>, Hard+Disk<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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