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<title><![CDATA[By: prying1]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74958</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have one friend that does artwork with his computer and his art is quite sizable. But he uses a MAC. So it goes. 

My first computer had a 20 mb drive and I got to supplement it with a second 20 mb drive. Back then I had to worry about space.

If I downloaded every GAOTD offering daily then I would be concerned especially if I did not delete the original zip download. As it stands now I've used less than 1/3rd of my drive and have been using it for a year. I think most users would not need this program but I'm sure there are some. Not a big market so the programmers might have to supplement their incomes...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:55:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: harpo2448]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74957</link>
<description><![CDATA[#29, Oscar H (and others):  I would think you could use this commercially on a remote web server after installing either this GAOTD version or a "trial" download version:  simply buy it and update the licensing info after you decide you'll keep it!  I doubt the author would complain in that event.

Hey, that's why the developers are offering their wares in the first place, in the hopes of generating/boosting sales, not legions of expectant daily leechers.

OK, enough rant.  For what Abaiko D.S.M. does (or doesn't) do well, I think the concept to send e-mail notifications from unattended machines (or those used by inexperienced users, public library or kiosk machines, etc.) is a good one.

On the other hand, for simply displaying an extremely useful interactive graphic of where the disk space is being used by local drives, I strongly prefer the freeware SCANNER by Steffen Gerlach.  It's the most useful/elegant display I've encountered yet (IMO) for getting an overview -- the guy must have had a stroke of genius:

http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

It's very tiny (a single 160K file is all that is required), runs from a USB drive, seems to work OK on Windows 9x/ME and XP and on FAT32 and NTFS file systems.  (I don't know about others, and I don't run Vista yet.)

After scanning your system for a while, SCANNER presents a "pie chart" of all drives with concentric outer rings divided into segments representing folders, subfolders, bigger files, etc.  (If you have a lot of files, then tiny single files are probably "too small" to show up as a segment around a ring.)

Press the "+" repeatedly to expand the size of the display to see more detail around the rings (as your screen size permits).  It makes for a better display.

Hover the cursor over a segment to see the size and name of the item in the top left corner.  

Click on a segment to "drill down" into that branch of what would be a drive/folder tree to reveal more detail and deeper rings.  It shows about 5 levels/rings deep at a time, but each parent folder always includes the total size for all deeper levels possibly not shown.

After only about a minute this "nested pie chart" method will seem incredibly intuitive -- more so, I think, than the rectangular-subdivided "treemaps" I've used before and as used by some of the other utilities mentioned previously.

However, those other utilities typically go a lot further in providing much more information, but is it really all necessary and useful to the task at hand?  

SCANNER hasn't been updated for a while (it does its simple job well as it is), but perhaps a developer (like Abaiko D.S.M.) could use Steffen Gerlach's method of display and incorporate it into their "enhanced" product (with credits/acknowledgements given and permissions if required).  He offers the source code.

Perhaps those who try it can report back (in the forums) what they do and don't like about SCANNER (or what does not work).

Try it, I think you'll really like it!  And don't forget to leave useful criticism of today's GAOTD as well (mine was for Abaiko to incorporate a useful/intuitive graphical display).]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:33:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Spiritwolf]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74956</link>
<description><![CDATA[when I clicked to see top 30 biggest file on both pcs, it tells me "there are no items to show!"]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:37:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Spiritwolf]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74955</link>
<description><![CDATA[strange, on one pc this demands a reboot after install, and on the other pc it didn't demand a reboot.  it opened and ran fine without reboot on the pc that is critically low on space, but on this pc that has plenty of space left, it demands a reboot before it can open.  WEIRD!]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:28:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Spiritwolf]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74954</link>
<description><![CDATA[hmmm, I have a good test to give today's Giveaway.  Wonder what it can actually DO to help with freeing up disk space on a hard drive that is full of good programs from GAOTD, which is the condition of the hard drive on my other pc?  What I need is something that will let me move everything INTACT and FUNCTIONAL to a new bigger hard drive, so that I don't lose all my great installed Giveaways.

Can today's giveaway do anything more than just tell you that a drive is running out of space, something which I've already known for quite a while now and have been seeking a SOLUTION for?

Can today's giveaway help SOLVE the problem of lack of space on the disk, or is it limited to only nagging you about the problem?  What I need is SOLUTION to the problem (something that will let me transfer everything from the too-full hdd to a brand new much more spacious hdd so that my collection of good Giveaways installed will still be installed and still run!)]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:19:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: dwm]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74953</link>
<description><![CDATA[@#28.  Sorry, the FreeSpace program that I suggested seems to have problems with the totals.  It appeared to be working but when you select a drive to show the percentage at the top, it gets some crazy numbers from somewhere.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:10:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Ashraf]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74952</link>
<description><![CDATA[Okay then Fubar, so you must know by memory (or you use an *alternative* software that allows you to see your Linux partition) how much space is left on your Linux (lets assume we are working with Linux + Windows) partition when working in Windows should the need ever arise to know if you have enough space to install, lets say, another distro? If you need to make a decision if you will be able to shrink your Linux partition or not?

Where did I say there were not work arounds to not being able to see/use Linux partition in Windows? Of course there are work arounds - I was taking about native support. I was discussing native support in Windows and native support with this software. Using third party software to enable Ext2/ext3 support for Windows and this software is not native support.

Anyway, I went thru a lot of the free alternatives posted above and this would be my recommendations:

If you were interested in the "Top 30" feature of Disk Space Monitor, meaning you would like to quickly know what are the biggest files and biggest folders on your hard drive, I suggest trying SizeExplorer because I personally like the interface better then all the rest. If you do not like SizeExplorer, WinDirStat will do the same thing as SizeExploer but the interface is just a bit different and it is more slow in scanning. Lastly, if you are just interested in the biggest files on your computer, but would still like minimal information on biggest folders, SequoiaView is unbeatable.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:52:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: flint]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74951</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well I saved a couple of MB. Uninstalled it straight away, can't see any use for it at all.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:54:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: anonymous]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74950</link>
<description><![CDATA[Okay bob #3, #7, #23, #27

We got the message by now. You are the representative of Abaiko :-)

Fact is that, as everybody said, this software has very little use and takes up more diskspace itself than other better free software. I just got told by WinDirStat that I sould delete disk space monitor to free up some diskspce. ;-D

Marry Christmas and Happy Hannuka]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:23:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/abaiko-disk-space-monitor/#comment-74949</link>
<description><![CDATA[#5, Ashraf (and #24, Shane), it sounds like you're the one who hasn't worked with multiple OSes.  This is a Windows program which is designed to warn you when volumes are becoming full.  It makes no sense for it to monitor a Linux partition which isn't actively in use.  If you're running Linux in a VM concurrent with Windows, then you can use Linux software which does the same thing.  And I agree with #22, (german)werwölfchen, seeing other OS's volumes from within Windows has been available for years.  I didn't even try to search, and found <a href="http://www.fs-driver.org/" rel="nofollow">Ext2 Installable File System for Windows</a> right off (which should be compatible with Abaiko Disk Space Monitor).  It makes no sense to slam software which very clearly claims to do one thing when you want software which does something else.

#15, Spacepixie, Windows Media Center lets you specify how much disk space to use for recorded TV.  It will never fill a volume.  For technical reasons which I won't go into, it won't even use as much space as you tell it it can.  It certainly won't use enough to interfere with the OS.

#17, John, Vista supports per-user disk quotas.  I don't know if XP does, I never needed that feature.

When both are minimized to the tray, ADSM has a larger working set (memory use) than AnVir, which does far more.  AnVir does consume more CPU, which would be expected.  However, ADSM uses a lot of CPU for what it does.  It uses almost as much as IE8 does running full-screen with multiple tabs open.

#26, Bob, if Windows is complaining about low disk space, then the volume is seriously low on free space.  Never ignore low space warnings on the system volume.  If it's just a data volume, it's less important, but I'd just free up the space, Windows doesn't need much on a data volume.  XP and Vista need far more than the Windows low space warning will tell you about on the system volume.

If you have AnVir, clicking the disk usage icon will give you a running list of disk activity, most active apps, and if there's room, free space on each volume (updates about every second).

If you have PerfectDisk 2008, it has an interactive graphical disk space explorer.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:45:07 -0500</pubDate>
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